This old clunky horror flick is probably best known today for historical purposes rather than being a great film. This was the first film featuring zombies. Of course these aren't your modern-day over-hyped, gut-munching type but your old-timey voodoo, mind-controlled, shambling slave sort. Bela Lugosi is the main highlight here as our evil villain with the awesome name of Murder Legendre. This is a very dashing Lugosi complete with sweet bad-guy mustache and matching beard. You also get a little racism thrown in, since it's the 30's, when someone talks about the worst thing for a woman would be to have her body in the hands of natives. Pretty dull whenever Bela isn't onscreen but worth a watch if you dig the classics and can deal with a very low-budget example of one.
Although it feels like this movie is everywhere today due to being in the public domain the original film was actually lost for a bunch of years up until being rediscovered in the 60's.
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