The Plague of the Zombies is a 1966 British horror film directed by John Gilling and starring André Morell, John Carson, Jacqueline Pearce, Brook Williams, and Michael Ripper. The film's imagery influenced many later films in the zombie genre.[citation needed]

Young workers are dying because of a mysterious epidemic in a little village in Cornwall. Doctor Tompson is helpless and asks professor James Forbes for help, and the professor and his daughter Sylvia travel to Tompson. Soon terrible things happen, beyond imagination or reality. Dead people are seen near an old, unused mine; recently-deceased people seem to have come back to life. Professor Forbes presumes that black magic is involved and someone has extraordinary power. He doesn't know how close he is: the dead become alive because of a magic voodoo ritual, so they must serve their master as mindless zombies.

André Morell as Sir James Forbes
Diane Clare as Sylvia Forbes
Brook Williams as Dr. Peter Tompson
Jacqueline Pearce as Alice Mary Tompson
John Carson as Squire Clive Hamilton
Alexander Davion as Denver (as Alex Davion)
Michael Ripper as Sergeant Jack Swift
Marcus Hammond as Tom Martinus
Dennis Chinnery as Constable Christian