White Zombie

From The Grindhouse Cinema Database

White Zombie (1932, USA) is a Zombie-Horror film directed by Victor Halperin.

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Main Details

  • Released on July 28, 1932
  • B&W
  • Running time: 69 minutes | 67 minutes (restoration) | 85 minutes (Ontario, Canada)
  • Production Co.: Victor & Edward Halperin Productions
  • Distribution Co.: United Artists
  • Directed by Victor Halperin
  • Written by Garnett Weston, from a novel by William B. Seabrook (uncredited)
  • Starring: Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Cawthorn

Plot Summary

  • 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.

Taglines

  • They knew this fiend was practicing zombiism on the Natives, but when he tried it on a white girl the nation revolted.
  • An Astounding Story to Hold You Spellbound..The Strangest Love Tale in 2000 years, Told on the Borderland of Life and Death! (Print Ad- Auckland Star, ((Auckland, NZ)) 5 November 1932)
  • The Dead Walk Among Us!
  • Stranger things are happening than you ever dreamed of!
  • This is the real thing! Unbelievable, shocking, true thriller
  • Foul traffic in dead bodies
  • See them dug from the grave and put to work as slaves to murder!
  • She was not dead... not alive.
  • With These Zombie Eyes he rendered her powerless - With This Zombie Grip he made her perform his every desire!
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