A young man turns to a witch doctor to lure the woman he loves away from her fiancé, but instead turns her into a zombie slave.A young man turns to a witch doctor to lure the woman he loves away from her fiancé, but instead turns her into a zombie slave.A young man turns to a witch doctor to lure the woman he loves away from her fiancé, but instead turns her into a zombie slave.
John T. Prince
- Ledot - Zombie
- (as John Printz)
Clarence Muse
- Coach Driver
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWas a personal favorite of Bela Lugosi, according to his son, Bela Lugosi Jr..
- GoofsMinute 46: the vulture manages to scream, loudly and repeatedly, with its beak shut.
- Quotes
Madeline: Driver, who were those men we saw?
Coach Driver: They are not men, madame. They are dead bodies!
- Crazy credits"White Zombie starring Bela (Dracula) Lugosi."
- Alternate versionsThe scene is which the zombie is crushed by the grinder, after falling into the chute in the factory, is missing from most available prints.
- ConnectionsEdited into Revolt of the Zombies (1936)
- SoundtracksBridal Chorus (Here Comes the Bride)
(uncredited)
from "Lohengrin"
Music by Richard Wagner (1850)
Played on an organ for the wedding
Featured review
A Classic For Some Reason, A Good One at That
I'm not entirely sure why this film is considered a horror classic. But having seen many other horror films from the 1930s, I would have to agree it's definitely one of the better ones.
The plot: a Frenchman in Haiti makes a deal with Bela Lugosi to turn a beautiful young woman (Madge Bellamy, the finest 1930s woman by far) into a zombie. But then he becomes disillusioned and Bela Lugosi strikes back at the Frenchman. Oh ,and there are other zombies, an absent-minded professor and a really annoying screeching vulture.
This film has some of the strangest transitions between scenes. I forget the word for when the screen slides over, but it does it a number of times in short succession in some strange shapes (like curtains, or diagonally). And there is a weird fascination with showing Bela Lugosi' eyes and his hand gestures repeatedly. The eyes reveal what seems to me some of the fakest eyebrows ever glued to a forehead.
But if you like Lugosi or classic horror, or Madge Bellamy... yeah, you should see this film. So much crap is pumped out of theaters and studios these days in the horror genre, why not see the roots that inspired all this before it went bad?
The plot: a Frenchman in Haiti makes a deal with Bela Lugosi to turn a beautiful young woman (Madge Bellamy, the finest 1930s woman by far) into a zombie. But then he becomes disillusioned and Bela Lugosi strikes back at the Frenchman. Oh ,and there are other zombies, an absent-minded professor and a really annoying screeching vulture.
This film has some of the strangest transitions between scenes. I forget the word for when the screen slides over, but it does it a number of times in short succession in some strange shapes (like curtains, or diagonally). And there is a weird fascination with showing Bela Lugosi' eyes and his hand gestures repeatedly. The eyes reveal what seems to me some of the fakest eyebrows ever glued to a forehead.
But if you like Lugosi or classic horror, or Madge Bellamy... yeah, you should see this film. So much crap is pumped out of theaters and studios these days in the horror genre, why not see the roots that inspired all this before it went bad?
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- Zombi - Yaşayan Ölüler
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- $50,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 9 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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