White Zombie

Although it opened in the wake of such classics as DRACULA, FRANKENSTEIN, and DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE, and made a fortune at the box office on its initial release, WHITE ZOMBIE is all but forgotten today. The film opens as a young couple, Madeline (Madge Bellamy) and Neil (John Harron), pass by a funeral in Haiti in which the body is being buried in the road. Their driver explains that this will protect the corpse from grave-robbing ghouls. The couple's coach later passes a group of strange creatures led by a mysterious figure, Murder Legendre (Bela Lugosi, fresh from his immortal success in DRACULA). The driver hurries past and later explains that these creatures ar...