{"product_id":"scripts-from-the-crypt-no-12-tod-brownings-the-revolt-of-the-dead-paperback","title":"Scripts from the Crypt No. 12: Tod Browning’s The Revolt of the Dead (paperback)","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNominated for the 2023 Rondo Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN  9798887710020\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“THE GRAVE WILL GIVE UP ITS OWN, UNTIL THE WORLD WILL BE FILLED WITH THE  WALKING DEAD.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLondon throbs with terror when the dead rise from their graves and walk its streets. The city will soon be overrun. The horror of it all is driving residents to madness and suicide. One victim suffers possession, stigmata and crucifixion. With occult forces at work, civilization may be doomed!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDecades before \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNight of the Living Dead\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e (1968), \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Exorcist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e (1973) and other industrial-strength shockers, Tod Browning’s 1932 screen treatment and script \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Revolt of the Dead \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eanticipated their horrors – and at the same time echoed Browning’s \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDracula\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e (1931) by featuring duplicates of several of that film’s major characters. 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Rhodes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTo delve deeper into Browning’s storytelling process, Professors Rhodes, Nathaniel Bell, Will Dodson and Robert Guffey examine multiple script drafts of Browning’s \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFreaks \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e(1932), \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMark of the Vampire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e (1935) and \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Devil-Doll \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e(1936) and document the step-by-step evolution of those macabre tales.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe cinematic universe of Classic Horror’s “darkest” director is about to get weirder, wilder and more shocking!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“A trove of fascinating materials that sheds light on Browning projects made and unmade.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e— Murray Leeder, \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHorror Film: A Critical Introduction\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\"We justifiably gnash our teeth over what might-have-been had George Romero's sadly unfilmed 1980s \u003ci\u003eDay of the Dead\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003escreenplay been made as Romero intended—anticipating as it did so much of what followed, including\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Walking Dead\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eTV series—but far, far more mind-blowing is this rediscovery of this lost screenplay to Tod Browning's unfilmed horror epic\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRevolt of the Dead.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eExpanding upon Abel Gance's hallucinatory march-of-the-WWI-dead climax to the 1919 \u003ci\u003eJ'Accuse,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003etransforming William Seabrook's localized Haitian zombie scourge of his 1929 bestseller \u003ci\u003eThe Magic Island\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003einto an apocalyptic pandemic, what Browning intended to bring to the screen in 1932 would have scandalized \u0026amp; devastated audiences, rocketing the horror genre decades beyond what was considered even remotely possible at the time. 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