So, I'm thrilled when I can come here and actually say something good about something or someone.

This time, the thumbs up goes to The Plague of the Zombies (of all things), but first some back story:

I walked into the local Media Play and found they had a $.99 video remainders section!

And what was currently on it? Vidoes from the Hammer Collection (for a buck!). They had Four-Sided Triangle, which I had already bought at a higher price to hear it's great Malcolm Arnold score. They had The Witches with a score by Richard Rodney Bennett. And they had The Plague of the Zombies with a score by James Bernard. So I bought these last two.

As a film, Plague is OK, I like the cast, but the plot's kind of been there done that. Still, with Plague's score, James Bernard hits the mark again.

GDI hasn't issued this one completely yet, but let's hope. As much as I like the Dracula motif, it's nice to have a Bernard score that doesn't include it for a change--just lots of percussion (even voodoo drums!)and tense swirling strings.

And it seemed that of the 90 minute film, at least 60 minutes were scored.

And like I said, all for a buck at Media Play.

The film's entire sound mix will fit onto a 90 minute cassette, so I figure I'll play that until GDI comes around to issuing this.