The Undead (film)

The Undead is a 1957 horror film directed by Roger Corman starring Pamela Duncan, Allison Hayes, Richard Garland and Val Dufour. It follows the story of prostitute, Diana Love Duncan, who is put into a hypnotic trance by psychic Quintis Dufour, thus causing her to regress back to a previous life. Hayes later starred in Attack of the 50 Foot Woman 1958. The film was released by American International Pictures as a double feature with Voodoo Woman.

The Undead was inspired by an interest in reincarnation during the 1950s as was the film The SheCreature. Notably the book The Search for Bridey Murphy by Morey Bernstein was made into a film in 1956. However by the time The Undead was being made, the popularity of reincarnation was starting to dwindle. Therefore Corman decided that they needed to change it up a little and added the time travel elements of Quintis, and a title change.Charles B. Griffith originally wrote the script in iambic pentameter which he says Corman loved at first but then grew cold feet about and asked to be changed. ........

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