Revolt Of The Zombies (1936)

Recap:

Boy meets girl. They get engaged. But when he finds out that she really loves another, he withdraws. Then he discovers how to zombiefy people and decides to be a ruthless man who takes what he wants, using all the people who he has zombiefied.

Well, yes, that’s the story. The Halperin Brothers have had moderate success with White Zombie, the story of a lovelorn man who uses voodoo to get what he wants and fails, and so they tried this recipe again and, well, did not really succeed. I can live well with Halperin voodoo zombies not being Romero flesh eating zombies, but this movie starts playing with the idea of using an army of zombies to wage a horrible war but then turns out to be a lukewarm love triangle with an bare minimum of creepiness. Some people (like me) will watch it because there are zombies in it, but few will not be disappointed.