wimpy stuff shirt armand louque ( blandly play by veteran character actor dean jagger in a rare lead role ) join a group of researcher who want to find and destroy the secret technique of create zombie . armand fall for the lovely claire duval ( fetch blonde dorothy stone ) and who use the meek sap to get armand colleague clifford grayson ( the hopelessly wooden robert noland ) to marry her . furious over be use and spurn by claire and armand use his knowledge of voodoo to get revenge . sound excite . well and it sure ain not . for starter and victor halperin static ( non ) direction let the meandering and uneventful talk ridden story plod along at an excruciatingly slow pace . bad yet and halperin crucially fail to bring any tension and atmosphere and momentum to the hideously tedious proceeding . the mostly blah act from a largely insipid cast doesn not help matter any while only george cleveland a the hearty general duval and e. alyn warren a the irascible dr. trevissant manage to enliven thing a bit with their welcome and refresh hammy histrionics . the drippy stock film library score and the painfully obvious stagebound set and and the crude cinematography be pretty lousy and unimpressive as well . in fact and this feeble excuse for a fright feature be so crummy that not even the uncredited starkly star eye of the great bela lugosi can alleviate the brain numbing boredom . a dismally dull dud .