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White Zombie
White Zombie

5.9

White Zombie

NR·1932·67m

Summary

In Haiti, a wealthy landowner convinces a sorcerer to lure the American woman he has fallen for away from her fiance, only to have the madman decide to keep the woman for himself, as a zombie.

Crew

Director

Victor Halperin

Dialogue, Story

Garnett Weston

Novel

William Seabrook

Reviews

Geronimo1967

Geronimo1967

June 13, 2022

6

This is quite a decent little Zombie mystery with a wonderfully evocative opening few scenes as the couple drive to the eerie plantation home of "Beaumont" (Robert Frazer). Now I'm sure Haiti would be a beautiful place to marry in 2020, but back in the 1930s it was an island awash with voodoo and coffin lids that go bump in the night, so when "Beaumont" takes a shine to Madge Bellamy "Madeline" he turns to the local witch doctor "Legendre" (Lugosi) to help him lure her away from her dashing fiancée "Neil" (John Harron). It's got all the usual flaws: (really) poor writing; Bellamy is as theatrical as she can possibly be, but Lugosi is much less like a dodgy Austrian Archduke and the paucity of lighting actually helps to create a suspenseful atmosphere. It's certainly at the better end of the scale for these cheap and cheerful horror stories and well worth an hour of your time, late at night, after a wee cognac or three...

Media

Status:

Released

Original Language:

English

Budget:

$50,000.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Keywords

voodoo
plantation
haiti
zombie
black and white
newlywed
pre-code
poverty row
woman in peril
telepathic mind control
vulture
independent film
melodrama
zombie maker