Widely remembered for Bela Lugosi’s haunting performance and its voodoo take on zombies, Victor Halperin's White Zombie (1932) is getting the Blu-ray restoration treatment from independent U.S. distributor VCI Entertainment.
White Zombie stars Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Cawthorn, Robert Frazer, and John Harron. VCI Entertainment’s Blu-ray release of the film will be available for purchase on May 6th. VCI Entertainment provided an official synopsis and video of what went into their restoration of White Zombie, and you can check them both out below:
“Bela Lugosi gave one of his most classic characterizations as the voodoo master in this minor classic of terror. Here, the horror and supernatural aspects of the plot were not the result of man's imitation of dread superstition. Here, the zombies are true creatures of the dead, under the control of zombie-master Lugosi, a delicious evil sort who weaves his web of evil to ensnare an innocent woman and the plantation owner who covets her for himself, even though she loves another man. The film has been called a "terror fairy tale" with its heroine clothed in flowing white and Lugosi's fiend cloaked in darkness. Enjoyable, at times chilling, White Zombie, despite some moments of over-melodramatic acting, is a fascinating exercise in the macabre, containing some truly classic moments in the genre of the horror film.”
Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.
When he’s not writing about horror as the Senior News Reporter for Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.
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