{"id":37364,"date":"2024-10-26T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37364"},"modified":"2024-10-25T21:20:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T01:20:45","slug":"white-zombie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37364","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;White Zombie&#8221; (1932) starring Bela Lugosi \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z102624zview_whitezombie.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"430\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><i><b>White Zombie<\/b><\/i><\/em> (1932)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>Victor Halperin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Garnett Weston <\/strong>based on <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3NDnvx4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>THE MAGIC ISLAND<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0by<strong> William Seabrook<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, Robert Frazer, John Harron, Brandon Hurst, Clarence Muse<\/strong> and <strong>Frederick Peters<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0<em> With These Zombie Eyes he rendered her powerless &#8211; With This Zombie Grip he made her perform his every desire!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Madeleine Short (Bellamy) and her fianc\u00e9 Neil Parker (Harron) arrive in Haiti. They are guests of Charles Beaumont (Frazer) and staying on his huge plantation.\u00a0 Charles secretly loves Madeleine and wishes she would marry him.\u00a0 Desperate to have Madeline, Charles visits &#8216;Murder&#8217; Legendre (Lugosi).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Murder is the owner of a huge plantation.\u00a0 Everyone knows that Murder&#8217;s plantation is worked\u00a0 by Haitian zombie slaves. Murder has the ability to turn people into mindless beings that follow his every command.\u00a0 Charles wants Madeleine to love him.\u00a0 He believes Murder can make this happen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Murder agrees to help.\u00a0 But the truth is he has other plans for Madeleine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>White Zombie<\/em> was filmed in less than two weeks on a budget of $50,000.00.\u00a0\u00a0Reportedly up to 10% of the budget was Lugosi&#8217;s salary.<\/p>\n<p><em>White Zombie<\/em> was one of Bela Lugosi&#8217;s favorites of the films he made.<\/p>\n<p>Beware of poor copies since the film went into public domain in 1960.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong><i><b>White Zombie<\/b><\/i> (1932)<\/strong> <\/em>rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z102624zview_whitezombie2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"485\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White Zombie (1932) Director:\u00a0 Victor Halperin Screenplay: Garnett Weston based on THE MAGIC ISLAND\u00a0by William Seabrook Stars: Bela Lugosi, Madge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,17,53,54,65,74,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebs","category-horror","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view","category-zombies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37364"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37378,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37364\/revisions\/37378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}