White Zombie

White Zombie is a 1932, horror, suspense, thriller, live action movie. It was written by Victor Halperin, written by Gamett Weston, distributed by United Artists, and starred Bela Lugosi in the leading role.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) This film is often credited as the world's first zombie movie, long before George A. Romero made them popular.
 * 2) Excellent acting.
 * 3) Even though this is a zombie movie, viewers who are privy to the genre will still have a treat watching it, becuase the zombiers act quite differently than you'd expect. There's no gore or graphic acts of violence, and they don't even refer to them as zombies in the movie.
 * 4) Watching this movie is like going into a dreamlike state. It has a hypnotic and creepy atmosphere.
 * 5) Great cinematography.
 * 6) This is one of Bela Lugosi's best performances, right up there with Dracula. He plays the leader of the zombies, and he's in top performance; his trademark hypnotic stare really can hypnotise you.
 * 7) Very good and creepy audio mixing.
 * 8) This movie resulted in the name of Rob Zombie's first band.
 * 9) This film also featured some new filmmaking techniques.
 * 10) There's that shot of Bela Lugosi's eyes, which float until they land on his head
 * 11) There's framing through objects.
 * 12) There's a dialogue scene where the camera starts behind the actors back and then all of the dialogue happens in one single take, and by the end of the scene the camera goes back to the same spot where it started.
 * 13) Like many horror movies from this era, the lack of music adds to the atmosphere.

Reception
White Zombie has an 86% critic rating and a 58% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes, a 3.1/5 on Letterboxd, and a 6.3/10 on the International Movie Database (IMDB).

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