Friday, February 27, 2026

The Hanging Woman - 1972

 La orgĂ­a de los muertos (translated as Orgy of the Dead) a.k.a. The Hanging Woman (US theatrical release),.   Beyond the Living DeadReturn of the Zombies and Bracula: Terror of the Living Dead.  Regionally titled as Death Chorus of the Skeletons, and re-released in Germany on March 1, 1977 as Die Bestie aus dem Totenreich / The Beast from the Death Realm. It was shown in the U.K. as Zombies - Terror of the Living Dead, in France as Les Orgies Macabres, and in Australia as Bracula, Terror of the Living Dead, The Naked Goddess of the Zombies.

This one's going for the belt.  Nothing on Wikipedia as to what Zombie number this was and where it was titled that.   I wonder if I could've skipped this one?

There it is!  It's also a Zombie 3.  This and many others were made before the original Zombie, and they were retitled for either redistribution or I guess for video release?  I'm not really sure and nothing specifies.  How could this be Zombie 3 years before Dawn of the Dead and before Zombi?

This film The Hanging Woman is a lot more in the vein of the Hammer Horror films, with stuffy Brits talking a lot and slow plot movement in a old cold looking castle like building.  Something about a man who saw a hanging woman that people either seem to deny entirely or minimally dismiss.  It likely has something to do with the devil worshipping cult and the creepy gravedigger that are both present in the town, just my guess.

I give it a pretty solid 2.5 its very run of the mill for "this type of thing" but even in that lens, its on the mildly not as good side of things as far as Hammer Horror is concerned.

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