White Zombie - Bela Lugosi

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(1932) A diabolical voodoo master plots to turn a beautiful young American into a White Zombie, a slave of his perverted passions...Oh dear! White Zombie is one of the great horror classics of the 1930s. Almost forgotten today, it is an excellent example of what can be accomplished by an obscure film company (in this case Halperin Productions) working with a tiny budget, but using enormous flair & imagination. Some of the visuals - the opening scene of the burial on the road, the sugar mill worked by zombies - remain in the imagination for an uncomfortable amount of time, one sure sign of true success for a horror film. The settings - the hillside graveyard & the villain's towering fortress - are genuinely top notch spooky.

Bela Lugosi - 'Murder' Legendre
Madge Bellamy - Madeleine Short Parker
Joseph Cawthorn - Dr Bruner (missionary)
Robert Frazer - Charles Beaumont
John Harron - Neil Parker
Brandon Hurst - Silver (the butler)
George Burr Macannan - Von Gelder (a zombie)
Frederick Peters - Chauvin (a zombie)
Annette Stone - Maid
John Printz - Ledot (the witch doctor zombie)
Dan Crimmins - Pierre (witch doctor)
Claude Morgan - Zombie
John Fergusson - Zombie
Velma Gresham - Maid
Hans Joby - Chauvin (a zombie)
Clarence Muse - Coach driver

Directed: Victor Halperin
Produced: Edward Halperin
Cinematography: Arthur Martinelli
Editor: Harold McLernon
Make-up Artist: Jack P Pierce

Format: Single DVD (Black & White)
Category: PG
Label: Sunflower Classics