Can never say enough good things about Roger Corman as a businessman and a producer. He seems to be one of the very first figures in the film industry to find success with self-financing films (him and John Cassavetes at least, who did make very different kinds of films), and so was important for independent filmmaking as a whole.
He produced many cult classics, but his own films that he directed are usually disappointing. I go back to him and keep trying to find a diamond or two, but I never can. The Undead is no exception, but I guess my expectations were pretty low anyway.
With a nutty premise about a woman sent back in time to the Middle Ages only to be persecuted as a witch, this should be a lot more fun than it is. While I've seen worse, and it kinda passes here and there for a low-budget movie of its time, it's still never more than middling, and drags a lot, even at just 71 minutes.
You could do a lot with this premise if the audience is willing to go with it (to get more serious, expand the first act to show the main character being persecuted in the present day before being persecuted in the past, making a comment on how societies always treat women, for example?), but the film really doesn't do a lot with what it's got. Should be at the very least some silly fun, but it's not even really that.
He produced many cult classics, but his own films that he directed are usually disappointing. I go back to him and keep trying to find a diamond or two, but I never can. The Undead is no exception, but I guess my expectations were pretty low anyway.
With a nutty premise about a woman sent back in time to the Middle Ages only to be persecuted as a witch, this should be a lot more fun than it is. While I've seen worse, and it kinda passes here and there for a low-budget movie of its time, it's still never more than middling, and drags a lot, even at just 71 minutes.
You could do a lot with this premise if the audience is willing to go with it (to get more serious, expand the first act to show the main character being persecuted in the present day before being persecuted in the past, making a comment on how societies always treat women, for example?), but the film really doesn't do a lot with what it's got. Should be at the very least some silly fun, but it's not even really that.