Part of the first era of Talkies, this movie certainly belongs in the early 20th century. It takes place in Haiti, as a US colony, filled with American owned plantations, run by indigenious Haitian... zombies. Yes. It's great. The movie has lots of "Haitian music" though who knows what it really is. It is music made of chanting, intense, fast-paced drum beats.
I am not used to following story lines of subtle films from this era, so I could not get the entire plot of the film moment by moment. White Zombie is about an American man and woman who get married in Haiti in someone elses lavish plantation home. The woman dies on their wedding night, but in fact, she does not die, but is turned into a zombie. After various struggles, tears and conversations, her husband finds her in a castle up in the Mountains of the Living Dead, as the Haitians refer to it.
One thing that's great about this movie is Bela Lugosi, he is the man who has the potion that transforms people into corpses into zombies. The head honcho, if you will. He looks like Dracula, with slicked-back, shiny, black hair and a huge, defined widows peak 'do. Every so often, this is great, the camera focuses on his face. It is a clean head shot, with a blank background. Lugosi is featured every so often, with his shiny black widows peak, bushy eye brows, making a fierce face. It's pretty funny. haha; basically there are these scenes in the movie of Lugosi looking fierce, and scary. He's basically saying "grrrrrr roarrr!"
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