Zombies of Mora Tau

1957 "Zombies of the African Voodoo coast!"
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Released: 01 March 1957 Released
Producted By: Clover Productions
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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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Merolliv I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.
InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
Hayden Kane There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes
Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.
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
GL84 Arriving at a small African community, a group of diamond searchers find the area guarded by reanimated zombies raised by voodoo and try to enlist a local couple to combat the creatures and get away alive.This is a decidedly decent early effort in the zombie genre. One of the biggest issues here is the fact that this one is clearly still unsure of the traditional zombie format yet so this one is completely off-the-mark in terms of how they're portrayed. Still in league with the slave-like behavior back then, they're unblinking nature and invulnerability in fights or weaponry tactics to guns or weapons might be too much for those looking for more familiar surroundings in a zombie movie. As well, there's the low-budget nature of the film does have some getting over as the make-up work in non-existent on the zombies beyond contact lenses, the sets are minimal and repeatedly utilized while keeping the action relegated to a few small, short set-pieces that are found throughout here. These here hold this one down a little, but not completely to off- set the few good parts to this, mostly all of which is based on the attacks and interactions with the zombies. There's some pretty fun scenes here with this one dealing with the beings in their mausoleum hideout where the scenes of them emerging from their coffins en-mass while going for their victim in the room and a second scene to retrieve a fallen comrade, while there's other fin scenes here with them attacking in the house and the attempts to repel them gives this one some rather intriguing action. The showcase here, though, is undoubtedly the underwater retrieval sequences which features not only the underwater battle with the creatures as well as the centerpiece attack on the ship itself where the creatures come on-board to force battles and barricading tactics that are far more traditionally-inspired which allows for a lot of great fun in the film. This here is enough to make this one overcome the few films into a decent-enough effort.Today's Rating-Unrated/PG: Mild Violence.
TheCrowing13 Any zombie film is a blast to watch, there is just something about them that is so cool. Well the film starts out in Africa were a young girl goes off to live with her grandmother. At the same time treasure hunters are searching for a lost treasure. The zombies come in as previous treasure searchers searching for the treasure, who were cursed when they failed. So the zombies are below average but the fact that they're zombies, is the only reason it doesn't completely suck. The acting is average, and the story is above average interesting.All the ridiculous stereotypes are included, fear of fire, walking under water, the usual. It's not a horrible film just poor, but if you love Zombies it's perfect for you. 3/10
Zontar-2 Adventurers tangle with zombies who can walk underwater. (Did George Romero ever catch this?)The fifties were a fallow decade for the walking dead. Scary zombies may have roamed INVISIBLE INVADERS and CREATURE WITH THE ATOM BRAIN, but they were sci-fi generated. (PLAN 9, anyone?) MORA TAU more or less sticks to the hoodoo playbook, but its finale is unforgivably weak, and the underwater scenes, which should have been a highlight, are blatantly bogus. If the story were rewritten on land, it would have spared lots of trouble and unintended laughter.On the plus side, quickie director Ed Cahn always aced day-for-night shots, and nearly all of the action here occurs in darkness. The film is free of stock wildlife footage and white dudes dressed as natives. The cast seems to appreciate scripter Bernard Gordon's snappy dialogue. Cult actress Allison Hayes pulls double duty as a shrewish moll and a zombie. Can't act worth stale jujubes, but still a treat to watch. There's also plenty of gaffe guffaws, my favorite being the portly zomb who "chases" victims down a staircase as he clutches the railing.