Garden of the Dead is a 1972 horror film

Horror film

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

 directed by low-budget film director John Hayes

John Hayes (director)

John Hayes was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. Hayes is best known for directing low-budget drive-in B-movie features and later, exploitation films.-Career:...

 and stars Duncan McLeod, Lee Frost and Susan Charney.

Plot

The plot involves a group of prison inmates who are in a chain gang. They obtain some experimental formaldehyde, and get high off of it. They later try to escape and are shot dead. They are buried, and rise again to kill everyone in their path, and to find more formaldehyde to get high from.

Cast

• Philip Kenneally
• Duncan McLeod
• John Dullaghan as Sgt. Burns
• John Dennis
• Susan Charney
• Marland Proctor as Paul Johnson
• Tony Vorno
• Jerome Guardino
• Lee Frost
• Eric Stern
• Virgil Frye
• Phil Hoover

Release

The film premiered in August 23, 1972 and was later distributed on VHS by Troma Entertainment

Troma Entertainment

Troma Entertainment is an American independent film production and distribution company founded by Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz in 1974.The company produces low-budget independent movies that play on 1950s horror with elements of farce...

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