Zinda Laash

Zinda Laash
DVD cover
Directed byKhwaja Sarfraz
Written by
  • Naseem Rizwani
  • Khwaja Sarfraz
Produced byAbdul Baqi
Starring
Cinematography
Music byTassaduq Hussain
Release date
  • 7 July 1967 (1967-07-07)
Running time
103 minutes
CountryPakistan
LanguageUrdu

Zinda Laash (Urdu: زندہ لاش, lit. 'Living Corpse') is a 1967 Pakistani Urdu-language horror film directed by Khwaja Sarfraz,.[1][2] and starring Asad Bukhari, Habib, Deeba, Rehan, Zareen Panna and Nasreen. The film's plot borrows heavily from the 1958 British Hammer Horror film Dracula, as well as from Bram Stoker's 1897 novel of the same name.[3] It is the first horror film produced in Pakistan, and also the first to be X-rated.[4]

Zinda Laash was released internationally under the title The Living Corpse, and was released in the United States as Dracula in Pakistan.

  1. ^ Khan, Rayan (9 October 2011). "Dracula in Pakistan: 'Whattay scary'". The Express Tribune. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
  2. ^ Trenholm, Richard (18 December 2021). "Turkish Spider-Man and the weird world of foreign remakes". CNET. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
  3. ^ "ZINDA LAASH - The Living Corpse - El Muerto Viviente (1967)". 15 January 2012. Archived from the original on 15 January 2012. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
  4. ^ Paracha, Nadeem F. (9 August 2012). "Also Pakistan - IV". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 6 June 2022.