![]() ![]() ![]() I give "Im Banne des Unheimlichen" a thumbs-down. Kinda disappointing looking at how America and the UK dished out one good Bond film after the other during that era. As a whole, I thought this was a pretty mediocre watch, like basically almost all the other Wallace films. No strong characters here in terms of females. And the women are also always the same in these films in the way they were written, which is pretty tough as they are really just vehicles to the story or to make the police detective look good. It runs for under 90 minutes, there are several unrealistic plot twists, unsuccessful attempts at humor (especially at the very ending for example the sound effect when she injects herself the deadly poison) and of course many characters with whom you can never be sure who's the good guy and who is the bad guy. Usually, it includes the name of the main antagonist, mostly a non-human creature (that is in fact a human dressing up), so this film also could have been called "The Laughing Corpse", but it is not. There is one unusual thing about this one here and that is the title. DER WIXXER TORRENT MOVIEIf you read the name of the director Alfred Vohrer, the name of writer Ladislas Fodor and the name of lead actor Joachim Fuchsberger, you will realize immediately that this is another West German movie adaptation of the Edgar Wallace crime novels. "Im Banne des Unheimlichen" or "The Zombie Walks" or "The hand of Power" is a German color movie from 1968, so not too long anymore until this film has its 50th birthday. ![]() Reviewed by Horst_In_Translation 4 / 10 Unusual title, usual Wallace Something that didn't work was the make-up for Ramiro: he looks green like a Martian, not olive like a Creole. It inspired the title character of the comedy "Der Wixxer" (2004). The undead may look a bit silly on still photos, but believe me, it's scary enough in the film. The cast also includes Hubert von Meyerinck as Sir Arthur, clearly trying to make a difference from his predecessor Schürenberg with little human touches such as his musical interests, Pinkas Braun in a typical twisted role as a man who could be a bad guy as well as a good guy, and Lil Lindfors who gets to sing a great song whose lines ("I wanna feel my heart beat") seem quite ironic if you consider it's all about a "zombie". Inspector Higgins (Joachim Fuchsberger) has no clue why, but reporter Peggy Ward (Siw Mattson) pushes the investigation a bit with her reckless curiosity. ![]() His brother Cecil (Wolfgang Kieling) soon suffers from persecution mania, because everybody he knows seems to be the target of an (attempted or successful) assassination. Reviewed by unbrokenmetal 7 / 10 Back from the cryptĪt the burial of Sir Oliver, witnesses hear a terrible laughter, and quickly the rumour spreads that Sir Oliver returned from the dead - as a walking skeleton. Higgins teams up with reporter Peggy Brand (Siw Mattson) and his bumbling chief Sir Arthur (Hubert von Meyerinck) to unmask the villain who is killing people with a poisoned scorpion ring. Sir Oliver's brother Sir Cecil swears he saw his dead brother jaunting around the countryside in a skeleton costume. Soon people who were close to Sir Oliver start to get killed. Scotland Yard's Inspector Higgins (Joachim Fuchsberger) becomes involved in a case that begins with the corpse of Sir Oliver supposedly laughing from inside of his own coffin during his funeral. ![]()
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