Posted on Thursday, 27 October 2011

WHITE ZOMBIE (Halperin, 1932) - I wish I’d have seen this when it was new. It must have been beautiful: some of the sets are gorgeous, many of the shots are dreamy, and you can just tell this used to look great. Now, though, we have to content ourselves with shadows, and Bela Lugosi being Bela Lugosi, doing a strange hand gesture - the rest of the actors aren’t very good, and the plot is all over the place, with the only interesting aspect the idea of zombies used as cheap labor, and even that’s abandoned too soon.  

WHITE ZOMBIE (Halperin, 1932) - I wish I’d have seen this when it was new. It must have been beautiful: some of the sets are gorgeous, many of the shots are dreamy, and you can just tell this used to look great. Now, though, we have to content ourselves with shadows, and Bela Lugosi being Bela Lugosi, doing a strange hand gesture - the rest of the actors aren’t very good, and the plot is all over the place, with the only interesting aspect the idea of zombies used as cheap labor, and even that’s abandoned too soon.  

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