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4 August 1932 (USA)
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The Dead Walk Among Us! more
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A young man turns to a witch doctor to lure the woman he loves away from her fiance, but instead turns her into a zombie slave. full summary | add synopsis
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Zombie Slave
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(9 articles)
Badasses of Horror: Part One
(From Fangoria. 5 November 2009, 4:34 PM, PST)
Bela Lugosi And Boris Karloff: The Expanded Story Of A Haunting Collaboration (Book Review)
(From Fangoria. 20 October 2009, 1:50 AM, PDT)
(From Fangoria. 5 November 2009, 4:34 PM, PST)
Bela Lugosi And Boris Karloff: The Expanded Story Of A Haunting Collaboration (Book Review)
(From Fangoria. 20 October 2009, 1:50 AM, PDT)
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Voodoo & Zombies & Lugosi, Too
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Bela Lugosi | ... | 'Murder' Legendre |
 | Madge Bellamy | ... | Madeleine Short Parker |
| Joseph Cawthorn | ... | Dr. Bruner |
| Robert Frazer | ... | Charles Beaumont |
| John Harron | ... | Neil Parker |
| Brandon Hurst | ... | Silver |
| George Burr Macannan | ... | Von Gelder (as George Burr MacAnnan) |
| Frederick Peters | ... | Chauvin |
| Annette Stone | ... | Maid |
| John Printz | ... | Ledot |
| Dan Crimmins | ... | Pierre |
| Claude Morgan | ... | Zombie |
| John Fergusson | ... | Zombie |
| Velma Gresham | ... | Maid |
| Hans Joby | ... | Chauvin (as John S. Peters) |
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69 min | USA:67 min (Roan restoration) | Canada:85 min (Ontario)
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Photophone Noiseless Recording)
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Canada:G (Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Quebec) |
Australia:PG |
UK:A (original rating) |
UK:PG (video rating) (1991) |
USA:Unrated
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According to friends of Bela Lugosi, the actor always regretted that he had taken the role of "Murder" Legendre for only $800 while the film was quite successful at the box office for the Halperin brothers.
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Continuity: When Madeline is removed from the crypt, the pallbearer zombies carry her open casket head first. Cut to the procession going up the hill outside the crypt, she is now feet first.
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Neil Parker:
Surely you don't think she's alive, in the hands of natives. Oh no! Better dead than that.
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Edited into "Muppet Babies: It's Only Pretendo (#7.1)" (1990)
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Liebestraum
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A diabolical voodoo master plots to turn a beautiful young American into a WHITE ZOMBIE, a slave of his perverted passions...
Here is one of the great unheralded horror classics of the 1930's. 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. Certain of the settings - the hillside graveyard, the villain's towering fortress - are as good as you'll find anywhere. Additionally, the moody music of Xavier Cugat & the make-up wizardry of Jack Pierce help tremendously.
But it's the performance of Bela Lugosi, looking utterly satanic, which is truly memorable. Released the year following his celebrated Dracula, WHITE ZOMBIE gives him another character which, in measures of pure menace, is easily the equal of the Count. With his mesmeric eyes, expressive, spider-like hands & wonderfully eerie voice, Lugosi radiates absolute evil. This talented Austro-Hungarian actor (born Béla Ferenc Dezsõ Blaskó, 1882-1956) would fritter away much of his career in low-budget dregs, but here he must have realized he was in competent hands and he is obviously having a wonderful time. To see his imposing, cloaked figure stalk about the screen, closely followed by his Living Dead slaves, is to enjoy one of cinema's most deliciously spooky moments.
Madge Bellamy & John Harron are both impressive as Lugosi's victims. Robert Frazer is very good indeed as the plantation owner whose obsession for Miss Bellamy throws him right into Lugosi's clutches. Elderly Joseph Cawthorn scores as the aged missionary who may be the only person wise enough to thwart the zombie master. Movie mavens will recognize an uncredited Clarence Muse as the frightened coach driver in the opening sequence.