| White Zombie (1932) |
| Rating: 5 Severed Heads |
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| Synopsis: A young couple, Neil and Madeline, are invited to have their marriage at aquaintence Monsieur Beaumont's home in Haiti. But Beaumont isn't a generous as it seems as he inlists the services of a witchdoctor named "Murder" Legendre (Bela Lugosi) to coax the young bride-to-be into loving him. But when he finds that Legendre has tricked him by turning Madeline into a mindless zombie, Legendre isn't about to turn her back, and instead turns Beaumont into a zombie as well to join in his army of walking dead. Now Neil must rescue Madeline and defeat the evil Legendre. Coming off the career high of playing Count Dracula, this is the film role Lugosi took insted of Frankenstein and we can all be thankful for that, as this is Lugosi's creepiest work since Dracula. This film also had a great deal to do with introducing zombies into popular culture. The zombies themselves are not your usual walking dead, but still pretty creepy, especially in the scenes where they toil in Legendre's sugar mill. The flim may seem a little slow to modern audiences but you have to remember, in these early horror films the mood defines the horror, not the visuals. The film could have been done well also as a silent film, in fact the climactic end sequence is almost silent. No one should miss this classic film. If you believe yourself to be a fan of horror or zombie movies, then you have got to see White Zombie! |
| What Has This Movie Taught Us? -For efficient manual labor at a fraction of the cost, it's got to be zombies! -Zombies are like lemmings -Afraid of grave robbers? Get buried in the middle of a major road! -Zombies don't need workman's comp |
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| Memorable Moments: 05min- Well, I'm off, have fun with the zombies 10min- See, I'm dead and I still passed the DMV exam! 32min- Having trouble with your lines there buddy? 37min- She may be dead, but she can tinkle those ivories like Chopin himself she can 41min- Ew, I don't want it after your hands been all over it 56min- Unibrow 59min- What if I...squeeze...harder... 63min- Gasp! Novelty fart bombs! |
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| Don't Quote Us On That: Neil: "Why did you drive like that you fool, we might have been killed!" Coach Driver: "Worse than that monsieur, we might have been caught." Neil: "Caught? By whom, those men you spoke to?" Coach Driver: "They are not men, monsieur. They are dead bodies." Neil: "Dead?" Coach Driver: "Yes monsieur. Zombies. The living dead. Corpses taken from their graves. Or made to work in sugar mills and fields at night." Beaumont: "Oh forgive me Madeline. Forgive me. I can't bear it any longer. I must take you back." Legendre: "Back to the grave, monsier?" Legendre: "For you my friend, they are the angels of death." |
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