White Zombie

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Luca D @JoeCamel7 Oct 26, 2026 Has a very spooky atmosphere and a half decent plot, though as the movie approaches its end the low budget aspect starts to creep up and the movie kind of falls apart. The beginning is interesting and mysterious and the plot seems decent but as the movie progresses it quickly starts to unravel by the end. Plagued by bad editing and bad acting, the movie is not a great one to watch, though it was the first zombie movie so it is considered a pioneer in film. If you're interested in film history definitely watch, if you want an entertaining spooky movie for Halloween, skip this one. See more Homu L @AkemiLord May 3, 2026 Fantastic movie. I really enjoyed watching this. Great film! See more Beatle R @BeatleRing Aug 4, 2025 Couldn't have Dracula escaped Van Helsing and just go to Haiti. Vampires can use Necromancy too and Bela Lugosi was the Vampire of Vampires. See more Alex K @RT47646388 Jan 6, 2025 The fact that this film was once considered lost is truly heartbreaking to me. Independently produced by the Halperin Brothers, directed by Victor Halperin, this little chiller deserves to stand out as a landmark in the genre. Widely believe and acknowledged as the first film to label its antagonists Zombies. However they aren't the Zombies we associate with now in works such as The Walking Dead and The Last of Us, these Zombies are associated with Voodooism. The practice of rendering a person a walking corpse completely in the control of one person is quite a frightening concept even today and while the film itself doesn't fully realize all the inherent darkness of such a concept I think that they hint around at it enough to make the idea of it quite chilling. The story is simple a rich man in love with another woman requests of the help of the sinister Murder Legendre, played with excellently charming villainy by Bela Lugosi, to make the woman he loves fall in love with him. However Legendre's plan is to turn her into basically a soulless automaton. What follows is her husband attempting to rescue and revive her. The story is very bare bones and the acting by the supporting players is strictly bland, an in some cases amateurish but what saves this film is in part Lugosi delivering a chilling and nasty performance and the direction by Halperin. The film looks great, is filled to the brim with mysterious and sinister atmosphere. It also features a lot of inventive camera tricks including some early split screen. The realization of this film I don't think gets enough credit, it oozes with creativity and imagination and despite some stunted acting is still effective and entertaining. It also succeeds as a mood piece capturing a palpable sense of dread. It's not to be missed. See more Shadowman4710 T @RT96537255 Nov 12, 2024 Considered to be the first zombie feature film, the movie is slow moving and creaky by today's standards but its a must watch for film buffs in general and horror fans specifically. It suffers from mostly wooden acting (except Bela Legosi who is mesmerizing as the Zombie Master and slow pacing. On the other hand, it still looks pretty good (not bad for a film nearly a century old). Worth at least one watch. See more Justin T @RT08580778 Oct 1, 2024 I know this is an old film but It has such poor definition it is really quite hard to watch. It looks totally soft the whole time. Contrast is poor with almost no mid-range. Some of the locations would have looked pretty cool if I could have seen them! Sorry but this is hard to look at, some films from this time look great so it could have looked good. The sound quality is also dreadful. Very hard to make out what they are saying. There is massive hiss all over everything. I really wanted to enjoy this film but the technical limitations make it so hard to enjoy. I think that it was quite a good idea to raise the dead to work in a mine. It seems like a good plan, you know, for efficient use of resources. This could do with a remake, the 2014 ‘remake’ doesn’t count as that looks dreadful. See more Read all reviews

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