Zinda Laash - Dracula in Pakistan / The Living Corpse (1967)
directed by Khwaja Sarfraz

“Zinda Laash (The Living Corpse) may well be the most astonishing B horror film of all time. The very fact that it’s a Pakistani adaptation of Bram Stoker’s DraculaZinda Laash is much more than a curiosity. It’s got everything — would be enough to earn it some interest, but everything — you could possibly ask for in a low-budget horror movie, and then some. On the one hand, it features some jaw-dropping cross-cultural gaffes (particularly with regard to the soundtrack) that will please Western fans of unintentional comedy… but on the other hand, it has moments of real power that rival any other interpretation of the story. On the one hand, it suffers from the notorious Pakistani censorship which forbade any nudity, overly-suggestive behavior or actual depiction of neck-biting… but on the other hand, it deals with some disturbing elements of Stoker’s novel which no version before had ever dared to make explicit. And, on the one hand, it interrupts its action periodically for song-and-dance numbers, hardly what Western viewers would expect in a Dracula movie… and yet, at least two of these numbers work so well in their contexts that it’s hard to imagine the movie without them. It’s the sort of film which manages to be so consistently surprising that even its frequent out-and-out plagiarisms don’t make it any less enjoyable.”
From BrainEater