The support feature to Dracula Prince of Darkness may have been a B movie with no star names, but it is widely regarded to be a superior film. Hammer’s sole excursion into zombie territory attracted the scrutiny of the British Board of Film Censors, who expressed concerns over the fire at the end and the scene where a lumbering corpse (Jacqueline Pearce) is decapitated with a spade. In a memo written after the film was completed, producer Anthony Hinds modestly described it as ‘not at all bad.’

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