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Year: 1932
Director: Victor Halperin
Plot: It is altogether typical of Bela Lugosi's lousy business judgement that he accepted one of his finest film roles for a mere $500 dollars. In the haunting low-budgeter White Zombie, Lugosi stars as Murder Legendre, a shadowy character who exercises supernatural powers over the natives in his Haitian domain. Coveting beautiful Madge Bellamy as his bride, wealthy Robert Frazier is refused her hand in marriage. He enters into an unholy agreement with Lugosi, whereby Madge will fall ill and die, then be resurrected as a zombie-and, implicitly, Frazier's love-slave. This is accomplished, but Lugosi, relishing the hold he has over Frazier, refuses to release Madge's soul. She is ultimately rescued from Living Death by her faithful beau Robert Harron and missionary Joseph Cawthorn (heretofore merely the comedy relief). Few talkie horror films have ever so expertly captured the "feel" of the silent cinema as White Zombie; the film's ethereal, ghostlike ambience enables the audiences to accept even the most ludicrous of plot twists. The producers, Victor and Edward Halperin, use the film's tiny budget to their advantage, evocatively suggesting the horrors that they haven't the financial wherewithal to show on screen. Lugosi is superb throughout, making the most of such seemingly innocuous lines as "Well, well, we understand one another better, now." Long ignored or shunted aside as insignificant, White Zombie can hold its own with any of the like-vintage Universal horror classics. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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]]>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:03:58 GMTWhite Zombie1932Victor HalperinIt is altogether typical of Bela Lugosi's lousy business judgement that he accepted one of his finest film roles for a mere $500 dollars. In the haunting low-budgeter White Zombie, Lugosi stars as Murder Legendre, a shadowy character who exercises supernatural powers over the natives in his Haitian domain. Coveting beautiful Madge Bellamy as his bride, wealthy Robert Frazier is refused her hand in marriage. He enters into an unholy agreement with Lugosi, whereby Madge will fall ill and die, then be resurrected as a zombie-and, implicitly, Frazier's love-slave. This is accomplished, but Lugosi, relishing the hold he has over Frazier, refuses to release Madge's soul. She is ultimately rescued from Living Death by her faithful beau Robert Harron and missionary Joseph Cawthorn (heretofore merely the comedy relief). Few talkie horror films have ever so expertly captured the "feel" of the silent cinema as White Zombie; the film's ethereal, ghostlike ambience enables the audiences to accept even the most ludicrous of plot twists. The producers, Victor and Edward Halperin, use the film's tiny budget to their advantage, evocatively suggesting the horrors that they haven't the financial wherewithal to show on screen. Lugosi is superb throughout, making the most of such seemingly innocuous lines as "Well, well, we understand one another better, now." Long ignored or shunted aside as insignificant, White Zombie can hold its own with any of the like-vintage Universal horror classics. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide12563http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t189335k9yi.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/White_Zombie/38204/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2009/2/4/40232.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Body: Publisher Quirk Books and author Seth Grahame-Smith have come up with the best way to make a literary work more accessible since the creation of Classics Illustrated comic books: they’ve added “all-new scenes of bone crunching zombie action” to Jane Austen’s 19th century novel Pride and Prejudice. This new version, out in stores this May, is titled Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance – Now With Ultraviolent Mayhem! And if you didn’t think it was a masterpiece before, chances are you will now. Could we do the same thing to classic films? Well, the technology to add extraneous enhancements to movies exists. Just check out The Curious Case of Benjamin Button for proof. But like Pride and Prejudice, we’d need to “enhance” films in the public domain if we wanted to get away with it. Fortunately, there are hundreds of such titles (see a list at Wikipedia), some of which actually already have zombies (Night of the Living Dead, White Zombie, Revolt of the Zombies, and in a way the “scientific” film Experiments in the Revival of Organisms). Avoiding the majority of public domain movies already consisting of horror and science fiction elements, we’ve come up with ten great classic films that would be even greater with the addition of zombies. Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstin, 1925) New title: Mutinous Zombies of the Battleship Potemkin Synopsis: A Soviet cinema masterpiece, Eisenstein’s film depicts the 1905 uprising of zombies on the titular vessel against the oppressive officers of the Tsarist regime. It begins when soldiers aboard the Potemkin are forced to eat rotten, maggot-infested meat, which turns the men into mutinous zombies. Later, the city of Odessa becomes overwhelmed with undead citizens and the Tsarist military is sent in to massacre them. In the end, though, even the soldiers are converted. Other Eisenstein films, particularly October, may also appropriately receive similar special zombie editions. The General (Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton, 1927) New title: The General and the Zombies Synopsis: Buster Keaton’s greatest silent blockbuster is kind of like the Shaun of the Dead of its time. The film begins with Keaton’s character losing his girlfriend due to his inability to prove he’s not a coward and a bum, but then by happenstance he ends up a hero and, most importantly, salvages his relationship in the process. In this special edition, Johnnie Gray still has to rescue his train (and his girlfriend) from the Union army, but now those Northern spies are zombies. Like the title character in Shaun of the Dead, Johnnie must in one new scene impersonate a zombie in order to fool them. The stone-faced Keaton is a natural for this masquerade, but of course then soldiers on his side mistake him for being a Union zombie, with hilarious consequences. Abraham Lincoln (D.W. Griffith, 1930) New title: Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies Synopsis: Griffith’s biopic about the 16th President of the United States was filled with historical inaccuracies when first released almost 80 years ago. The main complaint? Griffith left out Lincoln’s triumphant one-man battle against a Confederate brigade made up completely of zombie soldiers (yep, the South had them, too). Now, in a special edition release timed to coincide with Honest Abe’s 200th birthday, scenes depicting that battle, as well as a new ending, in which Lincoln recommends the enslavement of zombies, because they are not technically men and therefore are not guaranteed Constitutional freedom, are included. Also, on the DVD: a bonus behind-the-scenes supplement featuring a still-undead Lincoln zombie overseeing the restoration; an exclusive look at Lincoln’s famous stovepipe hat, which he wore to keep zombies from getting at his brains. (The above image of Abe Lincoln, Zombie Hunter is from this t-shirt.) At the Circus (Edward Buzzell, 1939) New title: At the Zombie Circus Synopsis: The Marx Brothers’ films were crazy enough without the addition of zombies, but this late episode from Groucho, Harpo and Chico just wasn’t anarchic enough for their fans. So, now the plot involving the stolen money has been eliminated and the film consists of the three Marx boys trying to stay alive inside a circus tent filled with zombies. There’s a strong man zombie, a dwarf zombie, and then there’s Margaret Dumont, who is so dull Groucho thinks she’s a zombie. Or maybe he just stabs her in the brain for fun? His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940) New title: His Girl Zombie Synopsis: Despite the new title, Rosalind Russell is never turned into a zombie. Rather, the zombies are merely in the background, causing even more fast-paced hysterics (yes, they’re the quick sort of zombies that are all the “rage” these days). Actually, at one point Ralph Bellamy’s character is thought to be a zombie, but then it’s realized that as much as he appears to be the walking dead, he’s just too slow to be one of the zombies running around outside the courthouse. Again, His Girl Zombie has something in common with Shaun of the Dead (not to mention Twister), in that it’s another story in which a couple attempts to separate but is thrust back together during a chaotic event. Angel and the Badman (James Edward Grant, 1947) New title: Angel and the Badman and the Zombies Synopsis: In this early precursor to the ‘80s Harrison Ford classic Witness Zombies, John Wayne plays a shootist and womanizer who is wounded near a Quaker family home. Brought in and nursed back to health, he attempts to tame himself after falling for a young Quaker woman. But his desire to become a pacifist is made difficult when brain-hungry zombies attack the house, and he must choose to either commit himself to the Quaker ways and “die” with his new religious society of friends, or go out and kick some zombie ass. D.O.A. (Rudolph Mate, 1950) New title: Z.O.A. Synopsis: The film begins with Frank Bigelow, filmed from behind, entering a police station to report that he’s been murdered. The reason he is able to do this is not because he’s not yet died from the poison; it’s because he is a zombie, which we finally discover when the camera finally shows us his face. The film then goes to flashback and details the events that lead to Bigelow’s zombification. After the back-story is complete, the film returns to the scene in the police station, where cops proceed to shoot Bigelow in the head. His file is then marked “Z.O.A.,” meaning “zombie on arrival.” Royal Wedding (Stanley Donen, 1951) New title: Zombie Wedding Synopsis: Fred Astaire and Jane Powell star as a brother and sister song and dance duo in this musical classic, which features two of Astaire’s most famous scenes. “Zombie Jumps” has him dancing first with a coat rack, then with a corpse, Weekend at Bernie’s-style. The latter of these objects ends up coming to life, a metaphor for Astaire’s famous ability to animate the inanimate. In “You’re All Zombies to Me,” Astaire playfully escapes from the zombie he’s created by dancing on the walls and ceiling of a room. Beat the Devil (John Huston, 1953) New title: Beat the Devil and the Zombies Synopsis: It’s been called the first camp movie, but unfortunately it wasn’t the first camp zombie movie. That all changes now with newly added scenes in which Humphrey Bogart and a great ensemble of character actors, including Peter Lorre, must fight off zombies while killing time at an Italian port. It’s very likely that Huston and co-screenwriter Truman Capote would have no problem with this additional subplot. Anyone familiar with the background of the film knows its makers didn’t take it seriously in the least. Actually, let’s just go ahead and add zombies into every section of the film. Zombies on the boat, zombies in Africa, zombies everywhere. Heck, make Bogie a zombie due to a lack of money. After all, as his character sets it up with the line, “I’ve got to have money. Doctor’s orders are that I must have a lot of money, otherwise I become dull, listless and have trouble with my complexion.” It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946) New title: It’s a Zombie Life Synopsis: On Christmas Eve, George Bailey wishes he were a zombie. But before he can find another zombie to bite him, an angel comes down from Heaven and shows him what his life would be like if he were undead. Zombie George infects the whole town of Bedford Falls, all except the wealthy Mr. Potter, who manages to take over the town by enslaving and exploiting the zombified citizens. In the end, George realizes that he’s better off simply shooting himself in the head so that he can’t possibly become a zombie. (Note: It’s a Wonderful Life is actually no longer in the public domain, but we just couldn’t not include it). Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:00:51 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com2/4/2009 10:00:51 AMPublisher Quirk Books and author Seth Grahame-Smith have come up with the best way to make a literary work more accessible since the creation of Classics Illustrated comic books: they’ve added “all-new scenes of bone crunching zombie action” to Jane Austen’s 19th century novel Pride and Prejudice. This new version, out in stores this May, is titled Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance – Now With Ultraviolent Mayhem! And if you didn’t think it was a masterpiece before, chances are you will now. Could we do the same thing to classic films? Well, the technology to add extraneous enhancements to movies exists. Just check out The Curious Case of Benjamin Button for proof. But like Pride and Prejudice, we’d need to “enhance” films in the public domain if we wanted to get away with it. Fortunately, there are hundreds of such titles (see a list at Wikipedia), some of which actually already have zombies (Night of the Living Dead, White Zombie, Revolt of the Zombies, and in a way the “scientific” film Experiments in the Revival of Organisms). Avoiding the majority of public domain movies already consisting of horror and science fiction elements, we’ve come up with ten great classic films that would be even greater with the addition of zombies. Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstin, 1925) New title: Mutinous Zombies of the Battleship Potemkin Synopsis: A Soviet cinema masterpiece, Eisenstein’s film depicts the 1905 uprising of zombies on the titular vessel against the oppressive officers of the Tsarist regime. It begins when soldiers aboard the Potemkin are forced to eat rotten, maggot-infested meat, which turns the men into mutinous zombies. Later, the city of Odessa becomes overwhelmed with undead citizens and the Tsarist military is sent in to massacre them. In the end, though, even the soldiers are converted. Other Eisenstein films, particularly October, may also appropriately receive similar special zombie editions. The General (Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton, 1927) New title: The General and the Zombies Synopsis: Buster Keaton’s greatest silent blockbuster is kind of like the Shaun of the Dead of its time. The film begins with Keaton’s character losing his girlfriend due to his inability to prove he’s not a coward and a bum, but then by happenstance he ends up a hero and, most importantly, salvages his relationship in the process. In this special edition, Johnnie Gray still has to rescue his train (and his girlfriend) from the Union army, but now those Northern spies are zombies. Like the title character in Shaun of the Dead, Johnnie must in one new scene impersonate a zombie in order to fool them. The stone-faced Keaton is a natural for this masquerade, but of course then soldiers on his side mistake him for being a Union zombie, with hilarious consequences. Abraham Lincoln (D.W. Griffith, 1930) New title: Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies Synopsis: Griffith’s biopic about the 16th President of the United States was filled with historical inaccuracies when first released almost 80 years ago. The main complaint? Griffith left out Lincoln’s triumphant one-man battle against a Confederate brigade made up completely of zombie soldiers (yep, the South had them, too). Now, in a special edition release timed to coincide with Honest Abe’s 200th birthday, scenes depicting that battle, as well as a new ending, in which Lincoln recommends the enslavement of zombies, because they are not technically men and therefore are not guaranteed Constitutional freedom, are included. Also, on the DVD: a bonus behind-the-scenes supplement featuring a still-undead Lincoln zombie overseeing the restoration; an exclusive look at Lincoln’s famous stovepipe hat, which he wore to keep zombies from getting at his brains. (The above image of Abe Lincoln, Zombie Hunter is from this t-shirt.) At the Circus (Edward Buzzell, 1939) New title: At the Zombie Circus Synopsis: The Marx Brothers’ films were crazy enough without the addition of zombies, but this late episode from Groucho, Harpo and Chico just wasn’t anarchic enough for their fans. So, now the plot involving the stolen money has been eliminated and the film consists of the three Marx boys trying to stay alive inside a circus tent filled with zombies. There’s a strong man zombie, a dwarf zombie, and then there’s Margaret Dumont, who is so dull Groucho thinks she’s a zombie. Or maybe he just stabs her in the brain for fun? His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940) New title: His Girl Zombie Synopsis: Despite the new title, Rosalind Russell is never turned into a zombie. Rather, the zombies are merely in the background, causing even more fast-paced hysterics (yes, they’re the quick sort of zombies that are all the “rage” these days). Actually, at one point Ralph Bellamy’s character is thought to be a zombie, but then it’s realized that as much as he appears to be the walking dead, he’s just too slow to be one of the zombies running around outside the courthouse. Again, His Girl Zombie has something in common with Shaun of the Dead (not to mention Twister), in that it’s another story in which a couple attempts to separate but is thrust back together during a chaotic event. Angel and the Badman (James Edward Grant, 1947) New title: Angel and the Badman and the Zombies Synopsis: In this early precursor to the ‘80s Harrison Ford classic Witness Zombies, John Wayne plays a shootist and womanizer who is wounded near a Quaker family home. Brought in and nursed back to health, he attempts to tame himself after falling for a young Quaker woman. But his desire to become a pacifist is made difficult when brain-hungry zombies attack the house, and he must choose to either commit himself to the Quaker ways and “die” with his new religious society of friends, or go out and kick some zombie ass. D.O.A. (Rudolph Mate, 1950) New title: Z.O.A. Synopsis: The film begins with Frank Bigelow, filmed from behind, entering a police station to report that he’s been murdered. The reason he is able to do this is not because he’s not yet died from the poison; it’s because he is a zombie, which we finally discover when the camera finally shows us his face. The film then goes to flashback and details the events that lead to Bigelow’s zombification. After the back-story is complete, the film returns to the scene in the police station, where cops proceed to shoot Bigelow in the head. His file is then marked “Z.O.A.,” meaning “zombie on arrival.” Royal Wedding (Stanley Donen, 1951) New title: Zombie Wedding Synopsis: Fred Astaire and Jane Powell star as a brother and sister song and dance duo in this musical classic, which features two of Astaire’s most famous scenes. “Zombie Jumps” has him dancing first with a coat rack, then with a corpse, Weekend at Bernie’s-style. The latter of these objects ends up coming to life, a metaphor for Astaire’s famous ability to animate the inanimate. In “You’re All Zombies to Me,” Astaire playfully escapes from the zombie he’s created by dancing on the walls and ceiling of a room. Beat the Devil (John Huston, 1953) New title: Beat the Devil and the Zombies Synopsis: It’s been called the first camp movie, but unfortunately it wasn’t the first camp zombie movie. That all changes now with newly added scenes in which Humphrey Bogart and a great ensemble of character actors, including Peter Lorre, must fight off zombies while killing time at an Italian port. It’s very likely that Huston and co-screenwriter Truman Capote would have no problem with this additional subplot. Anyone familiar with the background of the film knows its makers didn’t take it seriously in the least. Actually, let’s just go ahead and add zombies into every section of the film. Zombies on the boat, zombies in Africa, zombies everywhere. Heck, make Bogie a zombie due to a lack of money. After all, as his character sets it up with the line, “I’ve got to have money. Doctor’s orders are that I must have a lot of money, otherwise I become dull, listless and have trouble with my complexion.” It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946) New title: It’s a Zombie Life Synopsis: On Christmas Eve, George Bailey wishes he were a zombie. But before he can find another zombie to bite him, an angel comes down from Heaven and shows him what his life would be like if he were undead. Zombie George infects the whole town of Bedford Falls, all except the wealthy Mr. Potter, who manages to take over the town by enslaving and exploiting the zombified citizens. In the end, George realizes that he’s better off simply shooting himself in the head so that he can’t possibly become a zombie. (Note: It’s a Wonderful Life is actually no longer in the public domain, but we just couldn’t not include it). Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/groups/Zombie_Obsession/Re_Must_see_zombie_movies/329/39025/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: Macabre_FilmNut
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Post Date: 1/1/2009 9:00:45 PM
Body: No to Quarantine, not a really big fan of foreign remakes. As for the original, [Rec] yes. Very much Zombie and I enjoyed it. I see no one has mention Outpost (2007) another good zombie movie. Oh and something that looks really good. Kinda B-rated. Defitently a zombie movie. Død snø a.k.a. Dead Snow. Take a look: http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=8754 Oh and another good mention a 5 day reality zombie show that took place in and outside of the U.K. Big Brother House durnig the week of Halloween of last year. Dead Set is what it was called and you can see it here http://www.e4.com/deadset/ [quote user="divinemsjunebug"] Thanks Gor, just thought I'd see if we can throw some life in here. Has anyone seen the movie Quarantine? I think this is a remake of an older Spanish movie. I've only seen the previews of it but it looks like it might have a "zombieish" theme. If anyone has seen it, is it like that? Is it worth watching? It looks pretty cool in a Cloverfield and Blair Witch Project sort of way...or has it all been done before and they are just copying the same things over and over and over... [quote user="Dr_Gor"] [quote user="divinemsjunebug"] Hey everyone, our little zombie group has been dead for a while. Anyone want to resurrect it with a few of your MUST HAVE zombie movies that we all need to make sure we see? How about any new movies coming out. How about some really old movies that we might not know about. Just jump in with any movie you'd like to share. [/quote] There is nothing worse than a "dead" zombie group! As far as "must see" zombie movies I would have to say... ALL of them... ALL of Romero's original trilogy AND, of course, ALL of the subsequent remakes and sequels! EVERY Zombie film ranging from White Zombie to 28 Weeks Later and beyond... The Serpent and The Rainbow and Fulci's Zombie are at the top of that list followed by a host of GREAT zombie movies from the U.S. and Italy and Spain and England... I wouldn't know where to start! < GOR > [/quote] [/quote]
]]>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 02:00:45 GMTMacabre_FilmNutZombie Obsession1/1/2009 9:00:45 PMNo to Quarantine, not a really big fan of foreign remakes. As for the original, [Rec] yes. Very much Zombie and I enjoyed it. I see no one has mention Outpost (2007) another good zombie movie. Oh and something that looks really good. Kinda B-rated. Defitently a zombie movie. D&oslash;d sn&oslash; a.k.a. Dead Snow. Take a look: http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=8754 Oh and another good mention a 5 day reality zombie show that took place in and outside of the U.K. Big Brother House durnig the week of Halloween of last year. Dead Set is what it was called and you can see it here http://www.e4.com/deadset/ [quote user="divinemsjunebug"] Thanks Gor, just thought I'd see if we can throw some life in here. Has anyone seen the movie Quarantine? I think this is a remake of an older Spanish movie. I've only seen the previews of it but it looks like it might have a "zombieish" theme. If anyone has seen it, is it like that? Is it worth watching? It looks pretty cool in a Cloverfield and Blair Witch Project sort of way...or has it all been done before and they are just copying the same things over and over and over... [quote user="Dr_Gor"] [quote user="divinemsjunebug"] Hey everyone, our little zombie group has been dead for a while. Anyone want to resurrect it with a few of your MUST HAVE zombie movies that we all need to make sure we see? How about any new movies coming out. How about some really old movies that we might not know about. Just jump in with any movie you'd like to share. [/quote] There is nothing worse than a "dead" zombie group! As far as "must see" zombie movies I would have to say... ALL of them... ALL of Romero's original trilogy AND, of course, ALL of the subsequent remakes and sequels! EVERY Zombie film ranging from White Zombie to 28 Weeks Later and beyond... The Serpent and The Rainbow and Fulci's Zombie are at the top of that list followed by a host of GREAT zombie movies from the U.S. and Italy and Spain and England... I wouldn't know where to start! &lt; GOR &gt; [/quote] [/quote] http://www.spout.com/groups/Zombie_Obsession/Re_Must_see_zombie_movies/329/37139/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: divinemsjunebug
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Post Date: 11/10/2008 2:51:18 AM
Body: Thanks Gor, just thought I'd see if we can throw some life in here. Has anyone seen the movie Quarantine? I think this is a remake of an older Spanish movie. I've only seen the previews of it but it looks like it might have a "zombieish" theme. If anyone has seen it, is it like that? Is it worth watching? It looks pretty cool in a Cloverfield and Blair Witch Project sort of way...or has it all been done before and they are just copying the same things over and over and over... [quote user="Dr_Gor"] [quote user="divinemsjunebug"] Hey everyone, our little zombie group has been dead for a while. Anyone want to resurrect it with a few of your MUST HAVE zombie movies that we all need to make sure we see? How about any new movies coming out. How about some really old movies that we might not know about. Just jump in with any movie you'd like to share. [/quote] There is nothing worse than a "dead" zombie group! As far as "must see" zombie movies I would have to say... ALL of them... ALL of Romero's original trilogy AND, of course, ALL of the subsequent remakes and sequels! EVERY Zombie film ranging from White Zombie to 28 Weeks Later and beyond... The Serpent and The Rainbow and Fulci's Zombie are at the top of that list followed by a host of GREAT zombie movies from the U.S. and Italy and Spain and England... I wouldn't know where to start! < GOR > [/quote]
]]>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 07:51:18 GMTdivinemsjunebugZombie Obsession11/10/2008 2:51:18 AMThanks Gor, just thought I'd see if we can throw some life in here. Has anyone seen the movie Quarantine? I think this is a remake of an older Spanish movie. I've only seen the previews of it but it looks like it might have a "zombieish" theme. If anyone has seen it, is it like that? Is it worth watching? It looks pretty cool in a Cloverfield and Blair Witch Project sort of way...or has it all been done before and they are just copying the same things over and over and over... [quote user="Dr_Gor"] [quote user="divinemsjunebug"] Hey everyone, our little zombie group has been dead for a while. Anyone want to resurrect it with a few of your MUST HAVE zombie movies that we all need to make sure we see? How about any new movies coming out. How about some really old movies that we might not know about. Just jump in with any movie you'd like to share. [/quote] There is nothing worse than a "dead" zombie group! As far as "must see" zombie movies I would have to say... ALL of them... ALL of Romero's original trilogy AND, of course, ALL of the subsequent remakes and sequels! EVERY Zombie film ranging from White Zombie to 28 Weeks Later and beyond... The Serpent and The Rainbow and Fulci's Zombie are at the top of that list followed by a host of GREAT zombie movies from the U.S. and Italy and Spain and England... I wouldn't know where to start! &lt; GOR &gt; [/quote] http://www.spout.com/groups/Zombie_Obsession/Re_Must_see_zombie_movies/329/37114/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: Dr_Gor
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Post Date: 11/8/2008 8:31:37 PM
Body: [quote user="divinemsjunebug"] Hey everyone, our little zombie group has been dead for a while. Anyone want to resurrect it with a few of your MUST HAVE zombie movies that we all need to make sure we see? How about any new movies coming out. How about some really old movies that we might not know about. Just jump in with any movie you'd like to share. [/quote] There is nothing worse than a "dead" zombie group! As far as "must see" zombie movies I would have to say... ALL of them... ALL of Romero's original trilogy AND, of course, ALL of the subsequent remakes and sequels! EVERY Zombie film ranging from White Zombie to 28 Weeks Later and beyond... The Serpent and The Rainbow and Fulci's Zombie are at the top of that list followed by a host of GREAT zombie movies from the U.S. and Italy and Spain and England... I wouldn't know where to start! < GOR >
]]>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 01:31:37 GMTDr_GorZombie Obsession11/8/2008 8:31:37 PM[quote user="divinemsjunebug"] Hey everyone, our little zombie group has been dead for a while. Anyone want to resurrect it with a few of your MUST HAVE zombie movies that we all need to make sure we see? How about any new movies coming out. How about some really old movies that we might not know about. Just jump in with any movie you'd like to share. [/quote] There is nothing worse than a "dead" zombie group! As far as "must see" zombie movies I would have to say... ALL of them... ALL of Romero's original trilogy AND, of course, ALL of the subsequent remakes and sequels! EVERY Zombie film ranging from White Zombie to 28 Weeks Later and beyond... The Serpent and The Rainbow and Fulci's Zombie are at the top of that list followed by a host of GREAT zombie movies from the U.S. and Italy and Spain and England... I wouldn't know where to start! &lt; GOR &gt; http://www.spout.com/blogs/karina/archive/2008/10/30/36807.aspx Post By: Karina
Post To: Karina on SpoutBlog
Post Date: 10/30/2008 2:00:45 PM
Body: If you want to stay home and watch movies on Halloween but actually getting your hands on the full slate of films on our Six Degrees of Frankenstein marathon seems like too much trouble, consider Turner Classic Movies your back-up. The channel began its 48 Hours of Horror this morning at 6:15 with a showing of Mad Love, the Peter Lorre-starring tale of fatal attraction for which I am a total nerd. Highlights coming up over the next two days include: William Castle’s Mr. Sardonicus (about a Baron who digs up the decomposing corpse of his dead dad to retrieve a lottery ticket, goes into shock and emerges with his face fixed in a grotesque grin), and his more famous but more gimmicky The Tingler. I Walked With a Zombie already played this morning, but there are two more to come from producer Val Lewton: Cat People (7:30 AM Friday) and The Body Snatcher (3:30 pm Friday). The latter features both Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, and was directed by Robert Wise. A clear precurson to Lewton’s work is White Zombie, starring Lugosi, which plays at 2:15 tomorrow. Kevin Buist wrote about the film in his piece on the science behind zombie fiction. Halloween night is devoted to four films based on the work of H.P. Lovecraft. The only one I’ve seen is Die, Monster, Die, an AIP pic from 1965 starring my classic horror boyfriend, Boris Karloff. The TCM page for this drive-in classic sums up the bizarro plot better than I ever could: “Karloff assumes the role of Nahum Witley, a paraplegic scientist whose remote estate (with an enormous crater nearby) is visited by milquetoast American Stephen Rinehart (TV’s former “Johnny Yuma” and Japanese monster stalwart Nick Adams), an old college paramour of Witley’s daughter, Susan (Suzan Farmer). The locals don’t take kindly to the Witley family, and weird vegetation seems to be growing everywhere. As it turns out, Stephen was summed by the scientist’s ailing wife (Freda Jackson), who wants her daughter to escape. A mysterious glowing greenhouse, eerie howling within the house, and malevolent vines all figure in the horrific goings-on, linked to a radioactive meteorite which threatens to consume them all.” Also, it features some of the creepiest shitty hologram effects I’ve ever seen. Check out the trailer above. Check out the full line-up at TCM.com. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth
]]>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:00:45 GMTKarinaKarina on SpoutBlog10/30/2008 2:00:45 PM If you want to stay home and watch movies on Halloween but actually getting your hands on the full slate of films on our Six Degrees of Frankenstein marathon seems like too much trouble, consider Turner Classic Movies your back-up. The channel began its 48 Hours of Horror this morning at 6:15 with a showing of Mad Love, the Peter Lorre-starring tale of fatal attraction for which I am a total nerd. Highlights coming up over the next two days include: William Castle’s Mr. Sardonicus (about a Baron who digs up the decomposing corpse of his dead dad to retrieve a lottery ticket, goes into shock and emerges with his face fixed in a grotesque grin), and his more famous but more gimmicky The Tingler. I Walked With a Zombie already played this morning, but there are two more to come from producer Val Lewton: Cat People (7:30 AM Friday) and The Body Snatcher (3:30 pm Friday). The latter features both Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, and was directed by Robert Wise. A clear precurson to Lewton’s work is White Zombie, starring Lugosi, which plays at 2:15 tomorrow. Kevin Buist wrote about the film in his piece on the science behind zombie fiction. Halloween night is devoted to four films based on the work of H.P. Lovecraft. The only one I’ve seen is Die, Monster, Die, an AIP pic from 1965 starring my classic horror boyfriend, Boris Karloff. The TCM page for this drive-in classic sums up the bizarro plot better than I ever could: “Karloff assumes the role of Nahum Witley, a paraplegic scientist whose remote estate (with an enormous crater nearby) is visited by milquetoast American Stephen Rinehart (TV’s former “Johnny Yuma” and Japanese monster stalwart Nick Adams), an old college paramour of Witley’s daughter, Susan (Suzan Farmer). The locals don’t take kindly to the Witley family, and weird vegetation seems to be growing everywhere. As it turns out, Stephen was summed by the scientist’s ailing wife (Freda Jackson), who wants her daughter to escape. A mysterious glowing greenhouse, eerie howling within the house, and malevolent vines all figure in the horrific goings-on, linked to a radioactive meteorite which threatens to consume them all.” Also, it features some of the creepiest shitty hologram effects I’ve ever seen. Check out the trailer above. Check out the full line-up at TCM.com. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/10/30/36806.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
Post To: SpoutBlog on spout.com
Post Date: 10/30/2008 2:00:36 PM
Body: If you want to stay home and watch movies on Halloween but actually getting your hands on the full slate of films on our Six Degrees of Frankenstein marathon seems like too much trouble, consider Turner Classic Movies your back-up. The channel began its 48 Hours of Horror this morning at 6:15 with a showing of Mad Love, the Peter Lorre-starring tale of fatal attraction for which I am a total nerd. Highlights coming up over the next two days include: William Castle’s Mr. Sardonicus (about a Baron who digs up the decomposing corpse of his dead dad to retrieve a lottery ticket, goes into shock and emerges with his face fixed in a grotesque grin), and his more famous but more gimmicky The Tingler. I Walked With a Zombie already played this morning, but there are two more to come from producer Val Lewton: Cat People (7:30 AM Friday) and The Body Snatcher (3:30 pm Friday). The latter features both Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, and was directed by Robert Wise. A clear precurson to Lewton’s work is White Zombie, starring Lugosi, which plays at 2:15 tomorrow. Kevin Buist wrote about the film in his piece on the science behind zombie fiction. Halloween night is devoted to four films based on the work of H.P. Lovecraft. The only one I’ve seen is Die, Monster, Die, an AIP pic from 1965 starring my classic horror boyfriend, Boris Karloff. The TCM page for this drive-in classic sums up the bizarro plot better than I ever could: “Karloff assumes the role of Nahum Witley, a paraplegic scientist whose remote estate (with an enormous crater nearby) is visited by milquetoast American Stephen Rinehart (TV’s former “Johnny Yuma” and Japanese monster stalwart Nick Adams), an old college paramour of Witley’s daughter, Susan (Suzan Farmer). The locals don’t take kindly to the Witley family, and weird vegetation seems to be growing everywhere. As it turns out, Stephen was summed by the scientist’s ailing wife (Freda Jackson), who wants her daughter to escape. A mysterious glowing greenhouse, eerie howling within the house, and malevolent vines all figure in the horrific goings-on, linked to a radioactive meteorite which threatens to consume them all.” Also, it features some of the creepiest shitty hologram effects I’ve ever seen. Check out the trailer above. Check out the full line-up at TCM.com. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:00:36 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com10/30/2008 2:00:36 PM If you want to stay home and watch movies on Halloween but actually getting your hands on the full slate of films on our Six Degrees of Frankenstein marathon seems like too much trouble, consider Turner Classic Movies your back-up. The channel began its 48 Hours of Horror this morning at 6:15 with a showing of Mad Love, the Peter Lorre-starring tale of fatal attraction for which I am a total nerd. Highlights coming up over the next two days include: William Castle’s Mr. Sardonicus (about a Baron who digs up the decomposing corpse of his dead dad to retrieve a lottery ticket, goes into shock and emerges with his face fixed in a grotesque grin), and his more famous but more gimmicky The Tingler. I Walked With a Zombie already played this morning, but there are two more to come from producer Val Lewton: Cat People (7:30 AM Friday) and The Body Snatcher (3:30 pm Friday). The latter features both Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, and was directed by Robert Wise. A clear precurson to Lewton’s work is White Zombie, starring Lugosi, which plays at 2:15 tomorrow. Kevin Buist wrote about the film in his piece on the science behind zombie fiction. Halloween night is devoted to four films based on the work of H.P. Lovecraft. The only one I’ve seen is Die, Monster, Die, an AIP pic from 1965 starring my classic horror boyfriend, Boris Karloff. The TCM page for this drive-in classic sums up the bizarro plot better than I ever could: “Karloff assumes the role of Nahum Witley, a paraplegic scientist whose remote estate (with an enormous crater nearby) is visited by milquetoast American Stephen Rinehart (TV’s former “Johnny Yuma” and Japanese monster stalwart Nick Adams), an old college paramour of Witley’s daughter, Susan (Suzan Farmer). The locals don’t take kindly to the Witley family, and weird vegetation seems to be growing everywhere. As it turns out, Stephen was summed by the scientist’s ailing wife (Freda Jackson), who wants her daughter to escape. A mysterious glowing greenhouse, eerie howling within the house, and malevolent vines all figure in the horrific goings-on, linked to a radioactive meteorite which threatens to consume them all.” Also, it features some of the creepiest shitty hologram effects I’ve ever seen. Check out the trailer above. Check out the full line-up at TCM.com. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/10/14/36287.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
Post To: SpoutBlog on spout.com
Post Date: 10/14/2008 1:01:06 PM
Body: Two weeks ago I wrote a list of five doomsday films ranked by plausibility. The response to this piece made me realize that I overlooked the most pressing apocalyptic threat of all: zombies. The onslaught of the living dead has been a mainstay of horror cinema for decades, beginning with the Bela Lugosi vehicle White Zombie in 1932. Over the following years zombies popped up in movies as one of many monstrous villains, often filling the minion role. It wasn’t until George Romero’s groundbreaking 1968 film Night of the Living Dead that the idea of a zombie apocalypse was introduced. Romero’s cannibalistic zombies have since become the archetype used in countless films, books, and video games. The cause of the virulent plague of the walking dead varies, however. Everything from spiritual curses, viruses, chemical weapons, and alien microorganisms have been used to explain the origin of zombies. Below the jump we examine the real-world evidence behind some of these threats, and which ones you should be most worried about. Much of the popular lore surrounding zombies can be traced back to Haitian Voodoo. Sorcerers, known as bokors, are said to be able to animate the dead, forcing them to work as their slaves or warriors. This is more or less what Bela Lugosi was up to in White Zombie, except that he was a wealthy white plantation owner who used zombie slaves to work his sugar mill. It was all just business until he tried to use his power to improve his ailing love life; then things got wacky. In the 1980s, Harvard ethnobiologist Wade Davis went to Haiti to try to track down a physiological basis for Voodoo zombification. He discovered that the bokors used a special “zombie powder” to induce trances in victims, which could apparently last for years. The powder contains a poison known as tetrodotoxin, or TTX. Davis wrote a best-selling book about his research adventure, The Serpent and the Rainbow. The problem with Davis’ theory is that the powder, while it does contain decaying human flesh and God knows what else, has only a very small amount of tetrodotoxin. Even if it did contain more, it would only slur your speech, stifle your breathing, and possibly kill you, but it wouldn’t turn you into a sugar plantation zombie slave. If the bokors get technical and decide to weaponize zombie powder, then we could have a real apocalyptic threat on our hands. But it would be more like an old-fashioned chemical weapons attack, not a true zombie plague. For the walking dead to go from being a mere nuisance to a force capable of ending humanity, the affliction really needs to be contagious. In Night of the Living Dead, those killed by zombies soon rise to join their ranks, thereby growing the undead horde at an exponential rate. This model has been used in countless films since, with varying explanations about the nature of the zombie plague. In Romero’s classic, a reporter says something about a probe returning from Venus having exploded in Earth’s atmosphere. While it’s possible to imagine that a virus from an alien world could do just about anything, including raising the dead, other zombie movies have searched for terrestrial origins for zombification. One idea is that rather than zombies being reanimated corpses, they’re living people afflicted by a really nasty form of rabies. I Am Legend and 28 Days Later can both be read in this way. While the rabies model does account for altered behavior, and transmission through biting, there’s something about the voracity and speed of a rabid being that just isn’t quite zombie-like. The afflicted hordes in both films move much faster than Romero’s zombies, which would serve to spread the infection at an accelerated rate. As much as I love 28 Days Later, slow moving zombies are scarier, even if they’re a little easier to fend off. Either way, if scientists were ever to alter the rabies virus to have an extremely short incubation period and heightened symptoms, we could have a whole lot of very crazy people with the ability to infect more. The Return of the Living Dead, released in 1985, added a key element to zombie mythology: brains. Where Romero’s ghouls wanted to eat all human flesh, Dan O’Bannon’s zombies hungered specifically for human brains. In Return the cause of zombification was a bungled military experiment involving a poison called trioxin, which is a real chemical, but thankfully it does not cause people to become nearly indestructible walking corpses. Eating the brains of the dead, however, can have some horrifying real-world consequences. In the 1950s an American physician and researcher discovered a troubling disease affecting the Fore tribe of Papua New Guinea. They called it kuru, which means “trembling with fear.” The neurological disease caused patients to shake uncontrollably and burst out in maniacal laughter before dropping dead. On a cellular level, the condition is not unlike Mad Cow Disease, and if you know anything about how that is spread, you probably know where this is going. It turns out the Fore people had rather strange funeral practices, which involved eating the bodies of the deceased. Kuru was more prevalent among women and children, because they ate the brains of the dead, while the men dined on the rest of the body. The disease itself does not make people more likely to hunger for brains, but the story does drive home a disturbing point: Not only will people eat one another if their wagon train gets stranded in a mountain pass, they will also consume their kin due to cultural forces alone. In other words, peer pressure. Combine a global food shortage with some charismatic and insane leaders, you’ve got yourself a zombie apocalypse. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:01:06 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com10/14/2008 1:01:06 PM Two weeks ago I wrote a list of five doomsday films ranked by plausibility. The response to this piece made me realize that I overlooked the most pressing apocalyptic threat of all: zombies. The onslaught of the living dead has been a mainstay of horror cinema for decades, beginning with the Bela Lugosi vehicle White Zombie in 1932. Over the following years zombies popped up in movies as one of many monstrous villains, often filling the minion role. It wasn’t until George Romero’s groundbreaking 1968 film Night of the Living Dead that the idea of a zombie apocalypse was introduced. Romero’s cannibalistic zombies have since become the archetype used in countless films, books, and video games. The cause of the virulent plague of the walking dead varies, however. Everything from spiritual curses, viruses, chemical weapons, and alien microorganisms have been used to explain the origin of zombies. Below the jump we examine the real-world evidence behind some of these threats, and which ones you should be most worried about. Much of the popular lore surrounding zombies can be traced back to Haitian Voodoo. Sorcerers, known as bokors, are said to be able to animate the dead, forcing them to work as their slaves or warriors. This is more or less what Bela Lugosi was up to in White Zombie, except that he was a wealthy white plantation owner who used zombie slaves to work his sugar mill. It was all just business until he tried to use his power to improve his ailing love life; then things got wacky. In the 1980s, Harvard ethnobiologist Wade Davis went to Haiti to try to track down a physiological basis for Voodoo zombification. He discovered that the bokors used a special “zombie powder” to induce trances in victims, which could apparently last for years. The powder contains a poison known as tetrodotoxin, or TTX. Davis wrote a best-selling book about his research adventure, The Serpent and the Rainbow. The problem with Davis’ theory is that the powder, while it does contain decaying human flesh and God knows what else, has only a very small amount of tetrodotoxin. Even if it did contain more, it would only slur your speech, stifle your breathing, and possibly kill you, but it wouldn’t turn you into a sugar plantation zombie slave. If the bokors get technical and decide to weaponize zombie powder, then we could have a real apocalyptic threat on our hands. But it would be more like an old-fashioned chemical weapons attack, not a true zombie plague. For the walking dead to go from being a mere nuisance to a force capable of ending humanity, the affliction really needs to be contagious. In Night of the Living Dead, those killed by zombies soon rise to join their ranks, thereby growing the undead horde at an exponential rate. This model has been used in countless films since, with varying explanations about the nature of the zombie plague. In Romero’s classic, a reporter says something about a probe returning from Venus having exploded in Earth’s atmosphere. While it’s possible to imagine that a virus from an alien world could do just about anything, including raising the dead, other zombie movies have searched for terrestrial origins for zombification. One idea is that rather than zombies being reanimated corpses, they’re living people afflicted by a really nasty form of rabies. I Am Legend and 28 Days Later can both be read in this way. While the rabies model does account for altered behavior, and transmission through biting, there’s something about the voracity and speed of a rabid being that just isn’t quite zombie-like. The afflicted hordes in both films move much faster than Romero’s zombies, which would serve to spread the infection at an accelerated rate. As much as I love 28 Days Later, slow moving zombies are scarier, even if they’re a little easier to fend off. Either way, if scientists were ever to alter the rabies virus to have an extremely short incubation period and heightened symptoms, we could have a whole lot of very crazy people with the ability to infect more. The Return of the Living Dead, released in 1985, added a key element to zombie mythology: brains. Where Romero’s ghouls wanted to eat all human flesh, Dan O’Bannon’s zombies hungered specifically for human brains. In Return the cause of zombification was a bungled military experiment involving a poison called trioxin, which is a real chemical, but thankfully it does not cause people to become nearly indestructible walking corpses. Eating the brains of the dead, however, can have some horrifying real-world consequences. In the 1950s an American physician and researcher discovered a troubling disease affecting the Fore tribe of Papua New Guinea. They called it kuru, which means “trembling with fear.” The neurological disease caused patients to shake uncontrollably and burst out in maniacal laughter before dropping dead. On a cellular level, the condition is not unlike Mad Cow Disease, and if you know anything about how that is spread, you probably know where this is going. It turns out the Fore people had rather strange funeral practices, which involved eating the bodies of the deceased. Kuru was more prevalent among women and children, because they ate the brains of the dead, while the men dined on the rest of the body. The disease itself does not make people more likely to hunger for brains, but the story does drive home a disturbing point: Not only will people eat one another if their wagon train gets stranded in a mountain pass, they will also consume their kin due to cultural forces alone. In other words, peer pressure. Combine a global food shortage with some charismatic and insane leaders, you’ve got yourself a zombie apocalypse. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/blogs/cinemarian/archive/2008/5/12/28512.aspx Post By: CinemaRian
Post To: CinemaRian Blog
Post Date: 5/12/2008 10:12:50 AM
Body: Out of all the early horror movies, White Zombie (White Z*O*M*B*I*E as the opening credits would tell us) has suffered the most by the ravages of time. The movie was produced independently is now in the public domain, which means that the print quality has not been under the control of a major studio. I taped the version I watched off Turner Classic Movies, and, although vastly superior to the many DVD prints, it still was only mediocre. I say I watched an inferior print at the outset to give the movie the benefit of the doubt, because it really sucks. The movie is about an engaged couple named Neil (John Harron) and Madeline (Madge Bellamy), who have been summoned to Haiti by one of Madeline's old "friends", Dr. Beaumont (Robert Frazer). Unbeknownst to the couple but obvious to everyone in the audience is the fact that Beaumont has fallen truly, madly, deeply in love the bride-elect. After Madeline rebuffs his advances, he turns to a creepy dude by the name of Murder (Bela Lugosi) who turns people into zombies. He works his magic on Madeline, faking her death and the bringing her back to be Beaumont's soulmate, but the good doctor is tortured by that distant look in Madeline's eyes. Some people are never satisfied… The first of the many problem with this movie is the acting. With exception of Lugosi, it's really bad. Harron and Bellamy are so melodramatic and unconvincing that it's laughable. There is also an necessary character named Dr. Bruner (Joseph Cawthorn) who serves as comic relief that's not funny at all. Hmm, the irony. I do have to say that this is one of Lugosi's best performances, his grasp of English is rarely as strong and he genuinely threatening (although that may not be that hard when you are playing a character named Murder). Victor Halperin's direction is also a problem. I never got the sense that I was in Haiti or anywhere other than a Hollywood sound stage. He makes some odd choices, blending some occasionally impressive visuals with mostly static shots and poor sound track. Halperin is never able to induce the eerie atmosphere this movie needs and misses some golden cinematic opportunities. An example is the famous scene where a zombie falls to his death into an industrial machine. We don't even get a scream on the soundtrack! The moment is so surreal it's more comical than scary. White Zombie sounds like it could be campy fun, and it occasionally is, but more often it is so boring it will induce a zombie-like coma, regardless of whether you're white or not. But I do have to admit it has one great line, delivered in Bela Lugosi's unmistakable style: "For you, my friend, they are the Angels of Death!" White Zombie (1932)
]]>Mon, 12 May 2008 14:12:50 GMTCinemaRianCinemaRian Blog5/12/2008 10:12:50 AM Out of all the early horror movies, White Zombie (White Z*O*M*B*I*E as the opening credits would tell us) has suffered the most by the ravages of time. The movie was produced independently is now in the public domain, which means that the print quality has not been under the control of a major studio. I taped the version I watched off Turner Classic Movies, and, although vastly superior to the many DVD prints, it still was only mediocre. I say I watched an inferior print at the outset to give the movie the benefit of the doubt, because it really sucks. The movie is about an engaged couple named Neil (John Harron) and Madeline (Madge Bellamy), who have been summoned to Haiti by one of Madeline's old "friends", Dr. Beaumont (Robert Frazer). Unbeknownst to the couple but obvious to everyone in the audience is the fact that Beaumont has fallen truly, madly, deeply in love the bride-elect. After Madeline rebuffs his advances, he turns to a creepy dude by the name of Murder (Bela Lugosi) who turns people into zombies. He works his magic on Madeline, faking her death and the bringing her back to be Beaumont's soulmate, but the good doctor is tortured by that distant look in Madeline's eyes. Some people are never satisfied&hellip; The first of the many problem with this movie is the acting. With exception of Lugosi, it's really bad. Harron and Bellamy are so melodramatic and unconvincing that it's laughable. There is also an necessary character named Dr. Bruner (Joseph Cawthorn) who serves as comic relief that's not funny at all. Hmm, the irony. I do have to say that this is one of Lugosi's best performances, his grasp of English is rarely as strong and he genuinely threatening (although that may not be that hard when you are playing a character named Murder). Victor Halperin's direction is also a problem. I never got the sense that I was in Haiti or anywhere other than a Hollywood sound stage. He makes some odd choices, blending some occasionally impressive visuals with mostly static shots and poor sound track. Halperin is never able to induce the eerie atmosphere this movie needs and misses some golden cinematic opportunities. An example is the famous scene where a zombie falls to his death into an industrial machine. We don't even get a scream on the soundtrack! The moment is so surreal it's more comical than scary. White Zombie sounds like it could be campy fun, and it occasionally is, but more often it is so boring it will induce a zombie-like coma, regardless of whether you're white or not. But I do have to admit it has one great line, delivered in Bela Lugosi's unmistakable style: "For you, my friend, they are the Angels of Death!" White Zombie (1932) http://www.spout.com/groups/Zombie_Obsession/Old_Zombie_Movies/329/26465/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: divinemsjunebug
Post To: Zombie Obsession
Post Date: 3/21/2008 1:57:58 AM
Body: I had been watching a few really old zombie movies. In most of these movies a zombie was just considered a person who was under a powerful spell and would basically just become a slave and when that Voo-doo priest lost his/her power the zombies would become people again and revolt and kill the person who had controlled them. What are some of your FAVORITE old, old zombie movies, let's say before the Romero movies that changed the WHOLE dynamic of the zombie...Here are a couple of mine:Bela Lugosi plays a very evil character named Murder in White Zombie - this really is a fun, corny movie and pretty good actually (of course all most ALL old, old movies are pretty corny). This one was made in the early 1930s.I Walked with a Zombie - this movie is pretty good filled with Voo-doo and a few twists here and there.There are a few more that I like but I won't list them all in case someone else would like to mention them, what are some of your favorites, any old foreign zombie movies that anyone knows about? Any obscure little films that have been overlooked? What about silent movies, are there any silent movies about zombies?
]]>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 05:57:58 GMTdivinemsjunebugZombie Obsession3/21/2008 1:57:58 AMI had been watching a few really old zombie movies. In most of these movies a zombie was just considered a person who was under a powerful spell and would basically just become a slave and when that Voo-doo priest lost his/her power the zombies would become people again and revolt and kill the person who had controlled them. What are some of your FAVORITE old, old zombie movies, let&#39;s say before the Romero movies that changed the WHOLE dynamic of the zombie...Here are a couple of mine:Bela Lugosi plays a very evil character named Murder in White Zombie - this really is a fun, corny movie and pretty good actually (of course all most ALL old, old movies are pretty corny). This one was made in the early 1930s.I Walked with a Zombie - this movie is pretty good filled with Voo-doo and a few twists here and there.There are a few more that I like but I won&#39;t list them all in case someone else would like to mention them, what are some of your favorites, any old foreign zombie movies that anyone knows about? Any obscure little films that have been overlooked? What about silent movies, are there any silent movies about zombies? http://www.spout.com/groups/Top_5/Top_5_Bands_That_Get_Their_Names_From_Movies/190/18769/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: Ovation
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Post Date: 8/25/2007 7:42:28 PM
Body: Top 5 Bands That Get Their Names From Movies.5. Duran Duran: A villain in Barbarella. 4. 10,000 Maniacs: B horror movie called 2000 maniacs! 3. Misfits: 1961 movie starring Clarke Gable and Marilyn Monroe.2. White Zombie: 1932 Victor Halperin classic.1. Black Sabbath: 1963 horror movie starring Boris Karloff. (edit)Although I can think of many that are not on it, here is a small cheat-sheet.
]]>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 23:42:28 GMTOvationTop 58/25/2007 7:42:28 PMTop 5 Bands That Get Their Names From Movies.5. Duran Duran: A villain in Barbarella. 4. 10,000 Maniacs: B horror movie called 2000 maniacs! 3. Misfits: 1961 movie starring Clarke Gable and Marilyn Monroe.2. White Zombie: 1932 Victor Halperin classic.1. Black Sabbath: 1963 horror movie starring Boris Karloff. (edit)Although I can think of many that are not on it, here is a small cheat-sheet. http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/death/MemberTagFilms.aspxdeath
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