What is White Zombie (movie)?
{{italictitle}} [[File:Poster - White Zombie 01 Crisco restoration.jpg|thumb|Poster]] [[File:White Zombie (1932) by Victor Hugo Halperin HR.webm|thumb|thumbtime=22|upright=1.5|''White Zombie'']] '''''White Zombie''''' is a [[1932]] [[horror]] [[movie]]. It was directed and produced by brothers Victor and Edward Halperin. The movie's [[zombie]] theme was based on Kenneth Webb's [[Broadway]] play ''Zombie''. Reviews were mixed. A [[sequel]] was made in 1936 called ''[[Revolt of the Zombies]]''. ''White Zombie'' is the first zombie movie. It was one of the few American horror movies to be approved by the [[Nazi]]s.<ref>Rhodes, Gary Don. (2001). ''White Zombie: Anatomy of a Horror Film''. McFarland. p. 233. {{ISBN|0-7864-0988-6}}</ref> ==Main cast== *[[Béla Lugosi]] as Murder Legendre, a zombie master *[[Madge Bellamy]] as Madeleine Short, Neil's fiancée *[[John Harron]] as Neil Parker, a bank employee *[[Robert Frazer]] as Charles Beaumont, a [[plantation]] owner *[[Joseph Cawthorn]] as Dr. Bruner, a [[missionary]] == Story == Madeleine and Neil are going to be married at Beaumont's house in [[Haiti]]. Beaumont secretly loves Madeleine. He wants to find a way to get Madeleine to love him. He goes to a zombie master named Murder Legendre. Murder tells Beaumont to give Madeleine a certain [[potion]]. He does. She becomes lifeless. All think her dead. She is placed in a [[cemetery]] vault. In the night, Murder and Beaumont carry her off to Murder's [[castle]] on the coast. Murder has fallen in love with her, too. He gets rid of Beaumont by turning him into a zombie. Neil and his friend Dr. Bruner set off to save Madeleine. Murder falls from a cliff during a fight with Neil. His power over Madeleine is broken. She returns to life. == References == {{reflist}} {{movie-stub}} [[Category:1932 movies]] [[Category:1930s horror movies]] [[Category:American horror movies]] [[Category:English-language movies]] [[Category:Zombie movies]] [[Category:Movies set in North America]] [[Category:Movies based on plays]] [[Ca