White Zombie (1932)

⭐⭐⭐⭐ 66min Bela Lugosi in the first zombie movie ever.

Recap

So there is that couple and they want to marry in the Caribbean. However their host wants the bride for himself, so he talks to the local voodoo priest who turns her into a zombie.

This is definitively a “should see”. Of course the movie is, well, old, for example the running gag is a man who smokes but never has matches on him. Yes, about 90 years ago people were still smoking on the screen, and a man without matches was an incredibly funny screwball. And yet this movie is a classic that you may not want to miss, and I give you three good reasons:

The music is super, one of the best horror scores ever.

Bela Lugosi is in it.

This is the first zombie movie ever. Zombies back then were voodoolated slaves and it took more than 35 years until George Romero invented the modern zombie, so this is a priceless historic document.

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