White Zombie (1932)
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.
- Victor Halperin
- Herbert Farjeon
- Herbert Glazer
- William Cody
- Garnett Weston
- William Seabrook
- Garnett Weston
Rating: 5.906/10 by 249 users
Alternative Title:
Zumbi, A Legião dos Mortos - BR
Zumbi Branco - BR
La legión de los hombres sin alma - ES
Les morts-vivants - FR
A fehér zombi - HU
L'isola degli zombies - IT
Biale zombie - PL
Beli zombi - RS
Vit vålnad - SE
Белый зомби - SU
White Zombie - DE
Im Bann des weissen Zombies - DE
Schreckenshaus der Zombies - DE
Elävien kuolleiden maa - FI
Valkoinen zombi - FI
Lefko zombi - GR
To zontano ptoma - GR
Kyôfu-jô - JP
Kyôfu-jô: Howaito zonbi - JP
Zombie Branco - PT
Country:
United States of America
Language:
English
Runtime: 01 hour 07 minutes
Budget: $50,000
Revenue: $0
Plot Keyword: voodoo, plantation, haiti, zombie, black and white, newlywed, pre-code, poverty row, woman in peril, telepathic mind control, vulture, independent film, melodrama, zombie maker
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...
