
"This early horror classic still holds up as an entrancing and spooky masterpiece..." -- Horror Classics

(Avg. 3)White Zombie is a 1932 American independent horror film directed and produced by brothers Victor Halperin and Edward Halperin respectively. The film stars Béla Lugosi as Murder Legendre, Madge Bellamy as Madeline Short, Joseph Cawthorn as Dr. Bruner and Robert W. Frazer as Charles Beaumont. The film's story takes place in Haiti, where the plantation owner Murder Legendre uses his supernatural powers over the natives to do his bidding as zombies. When Madeline Short turns down an offer of marriage from Beaumont, he makes a deal with Lugosi that Short become a zombie and implicitly become Beaumont's love-slave. When Short...