Zombies of Mora Tau

1957 "Zombies of the African Voodoo coast!"
5.1| 1h9m| en
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A fortune hunter leads a search for diamonds guarded by undead sailors off the coast of Africa.

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Konterr Brilliant and touching
Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.
Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
Rainey Dawn Funded by a very wealthy man, a group of people head to the coast of Africa in search of treasure - diamonds. They find more than they bargain for because the treasure is haunted/surrounded with zombies on a sunken ship. These zombies can inhabit the land as well as the sea. Will the group succeed in getting the treasure? This film is not all that bad - it's a fun to watch type of horror with a little bit different twist to zombie films since a deep sea treasure hunt adventure is involved. A refreshing change in zombie films.This is not everyone's style of zombie film since there is no gore or fast running zombies - but I found it is my style and I enjoyed watching.6/10
Johan Louwet I had no idea what to expect from this movie. Given that it takes place in Africa I expected it that it would be about zombies driven by voodoo rituals such as White Zombie and I walked with a zombie. This movie has a different take though on the zombie phenomenon. Rather than driven by a ritual from some witch doctor they are cursed men. They do not age, cannot be killed, don't feel pain and they can hardly be wounded. They don't have a will of their own their only purpose protecting a treasure of jewels laying at the bottom of the sea near the wreck of a ship. The zombies are fearless with only fire keeping them at a distance. It's all explained in the movie by an old lady what can be done to stop them and remove the curse. That's right these zombies are more like restless souls than evil flesh eating monsters they would become in later zombie movies. Yes the action scenes look cheap even though the underwater scenes look very nice. With a running time under 70 minutes everything was explained and the motivations of the protagonists all cleared. Too many movies spend too much time sidestepping focusing on things who don't really matter. Not this movie, straightforward right from the start until the end.
utgard14 Fortune hunters try to recover diamonds from a shipwreck at the bottom of the sea off the coast of Africa. They don't have much luck thanks to the seaweed-covered zombies that guard the treasure. They spend most of the movie on the island of Mora Tau with an old lady who tells them that the diamonds must be destroyed to put an end to the zombies.Fun B movie from producer Sam Katzman. I don't see why it gets so much flack. Sexy Allison Hayes is always a treat to watch. One of my favorite B movie queens. She plays the trampy bad girl here and steals every scene. Marjorie Eaton is good as the old woman. Cutie Autumn Russell plays the bland female lead. The men in the film are mostly a forgettable lot but fine for the parts they play. For a 70-minute movie it's fairly effective. It's got a decent plot and reasonable atmosphere. It isn't going to scare you but it is entertaining as a time-passer. Don't expect too much and just enjoy it for what it is.
lastliberal This film was interesting in a lot of respects.First, I immediately thought of Zombie Lake when I see the zombies going underwater. That shouldn't be surprising as zombies can't breathe anyway.Secondly, the story may have inspired Pirates of the Carrebean, as the premise is that the zombies are the crew of a sunken ship loaded with a million dollars worth of diamonds, and they can't go to eternal rest as long as the diamonds can be taken. This is the story of another expedition to find those diamonds, and, of course, they have to fight the zombies for them.Lastly, I have not seen the stereotypical moll in a zombie movie. 50's beauty and B movie star, Allison Hayes, played the moll and also a zombie in a creepy scene with candles.Not a bad flick to get you in the Halloween spirit.