Born in the UK, Ronald France has made a significant impact on cult cinema through his roles in House of the Living Dead (1974) and Mister Deathman (1983). After settling in Cape Town, South Africa, he became involved in local theater, enriching his craft before stepping into the world of film. In House of the Living Dead, he delivers a compelling performance that resonates with the eerie atmosphere of 1970s exploitation cinema, while Mister Deathman allows him to explore the darker themes of horror and suspense.
House of the Living Dead
A white family running a plantation farm on the Cape Colony in South Africa consists of a mother and her two sons, Michael and Breck. Michael runs the house while Breck spends his time alone in his room, deformed and insane, conducting experiments to try to prove the soul is an organic object able to live outside the human body. Michael's fiancée Mary arrives to marry him, much to the mother's dismay as she wants the family to end so the long history of madness can stop. Meanwhile, strange things begin to happen at the plantation, such as voodoo, which is assumed to be the work of the local black neighbors, and murder.
