{"id":2316,"date":"2012-05-09T19:04:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T18:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/?p=2316"},"modified":"2012-05-09T19:10:07","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T18:10:07","slug":"the-plague-of-the-zombies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/2012\/05\/09\/the-plague-of-the-zombies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Plague of the Zombies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two years before Romero’s Night of the Living Dead<\/I>, Hammer Studios produced this socially conscious zombie thriller set in Cornwall and directed by John Gilling. The Plague of the Zombies<\/I> (1966) is released on double play by Studiocanal on 7 May and screens in selected cities across the UK on 12 June 2012. <\/p>\n

The screening is part of the Made in Britain season organised by Studiocanal and the ICO in celebration of classic British cinema between the Jubilee Bank Holiday weekend and the Olympics. The other films in the season are Passport to Pimlico<\/I> (5 June), The Man Who Fell to Earth<\/I> (19 June), Hobson’s Choice<\/I> (26 June) and Quatermass and the Pit<\/I><\/A> (3 July). For more information, please go to the ICO website<\/A>.<\/p>\n

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Two years before Romero’s Night of the Living Dead<\/I>, Hammer Studios produced this socially conscious zombie thriller set in Cornwall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,1,12,3],"tags":[403,109],"class_list":["post-2316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-check-it-out","category-cinema-releases","category-comic-strip-reviews","category-dvds-and-blu-rays","tag-hammer-studio","tag-zombies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/purUP-Bm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2359,"url":"https:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/2012\/06\/27\/the-discreet-charm-of-the-bourgeoisie\/","url_meta":{"origin":2316,"position":0},"title":"The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie","author":"VirginieSelavy","date":"June 27, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"For the 40th anniversary of the film's original release, a re-mastered digital print of Luis Buñuel's surreal comedy is released in cinemas on June 29. 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