White Zombie

Watch: White Zombie

7/28/19321h 7m

Theatrical (limited) Release (US)

~ Stranger things are happening than you ever dreamed of! ~

Overview:

A wealthy landowner living in Haiti convinces a sorcerer to lure the woman he has fallen for away from her fiancé. The madman later betrays their agreement by keeping the woman for himself…As a zombie.

Director:

Victor Halperin

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$50,000.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

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

Cast

Bela Lugosi

~ as ~

Legendre

Madge Bellamy

~ as ~

Madeleine Short Parker

John Harron

~ as ~

Neil Parker

Robert Frazer

~ as ~

Charles Beaumont

Joseph Cawthorn

~ as ~

Dr. Bruner

Frederick Peters

~ as ~

Chauvin, a zombie

George Burr Macannan

~ as ~

Von Gelder, a zombie

Brandon Hurst

~ as ~

Silver

Clarence Muse

~ as ~

Coach Driver

Dan Crimmins

~ as ~

Pierre, the friendly witch doctor

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Reviews (2)

CinemaSerf
Written 3 year(s) ago
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...
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hand2a
Written 10 month(s) ago
4
The first on-screen use of the word 'zombie'! A must watch if you are interested in the history of the horror genre, and although it is interesting, it's not the most entertaining. Robert Frazer was good as Beaumont and Lugosi was great as always, also has some nice matte painting work, but other than the historical significance, it's a pretty bog-standard early B-movie. 2/5