White Zombie

1932

Horror

10
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 58% · 23 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 58% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 12576 12.6K

voodoo plantation haiti zombie black and white cult film

Plot summary

A wealthy landowner living in Haiti convinces a sorcerer to lure the woman he has fallen for away from her fiancé. The madman later betrays their agreement by keeping the woman for himself…As a zombie.

Director

Victor Halperin Photo
Victor Halperin

Top cast

Bela Lugosi Photo
Bela Lugosi as 'Murder' Legendre
Madge Bellamy Photo
Madge Bellamy as Madeline Short Parker
Dan Crimmins Photo
Dan Crimmins as Pierre - Witch Doctor
Claude Morgan Photo
Claude Morgan as Zombie
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
612.98 MB
1280*974
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 6 min
Seeds 2
1.11 GB
1420*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 6 min
Seeds 8

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ebeckstr-1 7 / 10

Beautifully photographed but somewhat underwhelming ending

White Zombie is beautiful to watch, a combination of gorgeous black and white photography and wonderfully rendered matte paintings, and combo shots. I found the ending somewhat underwhelming, especially in light of some foreshadowing which does not pay off. Nonetheless, a true classic, even more fascinating if viewed through the lens of more informed understandings of colonialism, slavery, and related race relations.
Reviewed by JoeKarlosi 7 / 10

Pretty good, but Lugosi is great **1/2

I'm a big Bela Lugosi fan, as well as a sucker for '30s and '40s horror chestnuts in general. But no matter how many times I watch WHITE ZOMBIE, I'm just always a bit short of considering it a "good" movie. Lugosi is delightfully weird and mysterious as Murder Legendre, a sinister zombie master who commands a legion of Walking Dead, and who grants a favor to a jealous man by helping him possess the woman he yearns for -- by turning her into a mindless zombie!The surroundings are purely macabre and unsettling. But despite these assets, something goes astray in the snail-like pacing. Some of the acting is hopelessly dated and exaggerated, most notably by con man Robert Frazer and, to a lesser extent, hero John Harron. It's interesting that Lugosi - who's often lambasted by critics for overdoing it himself - is perfectly "on," however. WHITE ZOMBIE is still a "pretty good" horror movie in its own right for such a minor production. But it's not a film I would recommend to those younger viewers who tend to feel bored by older classic films.
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