White Zombie

1932 "Stranger things are happening than you ever dreamed of!"
6.2| 1h7m| NR| en
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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.

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Victor & Edward Halperin Productions

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Alicia I love this movie so much
Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.
Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.
cricketbat I wanted to like White Zombie more. After all, it is considered to be the first "zombie movie" ever made. But the pacing and acting made it seem like the longest 68-minute film ever made. I think it would have worked better as a silent film.
Michael Ledo This movie hails from the era when Haiti had cornered the market on zombies. No raising from the dead, no alien induced zombie, no foot dragging or brain eating fun zombies. These zombies were gainfully employed at the sugar mill. Young Bela boasts an "Eddie Munster" hair style, pointy ears, manicured eyebrows, and a goatee. Along with his superimposed eyes he has come to epitomize evil. He is the one who actually creates zombies in what is now a campy film from a former horror classic.Madge Bellamy stars in the title role, a bride, abducted by another man and turned into a zombie. The ending wasn't exactly a cliff hanger. A good movie to watch with "Reefer Madness" if you catch my drift.
gorf If you're looking for a movie about undead cannibals that walk around with their rotting flesh falling off or want to see intestines get ripped out of people while they're still alive, you're going to be very disappointed.White Zombie is one of the first zombie movies ever made, and it's still one of the scariest. It's a creepy and atmospheric movie from the time when filmmakers made true horror movies that didn't rely on cheap jump scares or guts and gore.Bela Lugosi's character is probably one of the most evil villains in a horror movie. In some ways, he's worse than Dracula. Dracula could always blame it on the curse...what's this guy's excuse? He's just a sadist.The zombies are frightening to look at, especially the "chief executioner". He's comparable to Count Orlok from Nosferatu or Erik in Phantom of the Opera from 1925 (in fact, the whole movie feels like a silent movie). I bet the actors cracked up a lot during the making of the movie, though.Everything in White Zombie looks creepy, from start to finish. It's like a very bad dream. The graveyard, the house, the castle...and then there's the darn vulture. Stop making those awful noises! But fortunately, since this is an old movie, it has a happy ending where the villain is defeated, and our heroes (hopefully) live happily ever after.Forget overrated zombie movies like Dawn of the Dead and garbage like Fulci's "Zombi", and watch a true zombie movie instead.
Johan Louwet If I was informed correctly this was the first zombie movie, at least the first movie which had the word zombie in its title. Even though the zombies in here appear as living dead they are very different from the flesh eating undead creatures that were put in the world by Romero. Zombies originally are people who are bewitched by a witchdoctor who uses voodoo on them so they blindly follow the instructions of their master. They are slaves with no will of their own, little to no feelings and their souls are literally stolen from them. The movie is largely experimental, with a very simple plot and very little character development. It thrives mostly on atmosphere with the creepy castle of the witchdoctor being a great setting largely reminding me of Dracula's castle. That is also who the witchdoctor reminded me of, Dracula. No coincidence that both Dracula and this witchdoctor were played by Bela Lugosi. Those hypnotizing eyes of Lugosi, yeah I wouldn't want to meet those in the dark. For a pioneer it was a good effort and much more enjoyable than I walked with a Zombie. Somehow one day I hope we will see a voodoo zombie movie with a better plot and characters (or if there is one I would love to hear) even though I think Lugosi's powerful stare will be hard to beat!