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A young man turns to a witch doctor in order to lure the woman he loves away from her fiancé, but instead she is turned into a zombie slave.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This first Zombie movie (and early talkie)is obviously highly influenced by the German expressionist silent film style(compare e.g. 'The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari'). That means from todays point of view the acting looks quite hammy and the villain (Lugosi) is the only real 'character'. Apart from that this is a must-see. Marvelous camera work and an extremly eerie and creepy atmosphere. The scene in the sugar mill or that of the zombies coming down the hill after the credits alone are worth watching this movie. By the way, the 'magic' is quite rational - a combination of drugs and hypnosis (only the controlling without eye contact is humbug).The voodoo dolls seem to be more a psychological tool than actual wizardry.
So if you don't mind the old-fashioned acting style, give this movie a chance.
So if you don't mind the old-fashioned acting style, give this movie a chance.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Firstly , I would agree with the two previous reviews with regard to the film , Bela Lugosi on top form & should be seen by any fan of horror movies .
Unfortunately the quality of this DVD means only one star , just guessing but I think the master this was transferred from was a thirty year old tape from a home VHS in a dodgy reception area . Horrible glaring picture with no detail whatsoever & constant , loud background noise......I really like this film but could only manage ten minutes before switching off !
I'm off to search Amazon for another version , maybe they have a remastered version for Region 1 ? This is cheap , but not a bargain - if you like this film , avoid this DVD !!
Unfortunately the quality of this DVD means only one star , just guessing but I think the master this was transferred from was a thirty year old tape from a home VHS in a dodgy reception area . Horrible glaring picture with no detail whatsoever & constant , loud background noise......I really like this film but could only manage ten minutes before switching off !
I'm off to search Amazon for another version , maybe they have a remastered version for Region 1 ? This is cheap , but not a bargain - if you like this film , avoid this DVD !!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Within a year of becoming the screen's first and still-best Dracula, Bela Lugosi was starring in this "epic" for The Halperin Brothers. Don't ask who they were-long ago forgotten!!
So is this film, and that's one mistake you can swiftly rectify by buying it. You won't find another quite like it.
Only 5 years after sound films had started I know, but there are some fairly wobbly bits of recording. As for the soundtrack, that is even scratchier, off 78's!
But this only adds to the atmosphere. The eerie, low-lit photography is quite astounding and completely at one with the studio backdrops. God knows where Haiti was actually recreated, but it's convincingly chilling even if it was Poverty Row, LA!
The soundtrack is actually parts of Schubert's Unfinished symphony, parts of other half-recognisable classical pieces, plus a bit of refrains or variations based on what's gone before. In any other context, you'd probably rush to sell it on e-bay or here, but it really is compelling stuff alongside Bela!
And it is Mr Lugosi who makes it, finally. All I will say is that the hero is daft enough to put into Port-au-Prince with his fiancee to stay with another single bloke they met on the boat to New York, and his fiancee is daft enough to stand around in her underwear by the shuttered window listening to native drums!
That is quite enough encouragement for Murder Legendre,sugar-mill owner and interesting second occupation, to run amok. And Bela Lugosi was never better than when he did that.
Well, this film really is an one-off. It's stood repeated viewings on VHS and is now doing the same on DVD. It's a real treasure, and a compelling entertainment.
All I can finally do, to encourage a purchase(I'm not selling it, by the way!)is to quote Mr Lugosi's final words:-
"For you, my frend, they are the Angels of Death"
So now you know where that came from,too!
So is this film, and that's one mistake you can swiftly rectify by buying it. You won't find another quite like it.
Only 5 years after sound films had started I know, but there are some fairly wobbly bits of recording. As for the soundtrack, that is even scratchier, off 78's!
But this only adds to the atmosphere. The eerie, low-lit photography is quite astounding and completely at one with the studio backdrops. God knows where Haiti was actually recreated, but it's convincingly chilling even if it was Poverty Row, LA!
The soundtrack is actually parts of Schubert's Unfinished symphony, parts of other half-recognisable classical pieces, plus a bit of refrains or variations based on what's gone before. In any other context, you'd probably rush to sell it on e-bay or here, but it really is compelling stuff alongside Bela!
And it is Mr Lugosi who makes it, finally. All I will say is that the hero is daft enough to put into Port-au-Prince with his fiancee to stay with another single bloke they met on the boat to New York, and his fiancee is daft enough to stand around in her underwear by the shuttered window listening to native drums!
That is quite enough encouragement for Murder Legendre,sugar-mill owner and interesting second occupation, to run amok. And Bela Lugosi was never better than when he did that.
Well, this film really is an one-off. It's stood repeated viewings on VHS and is now doing the same on DVD. It's a real treasure, and a compelling entertainment.
All I can finally do, to encourage a purchase(I'm not selling it, by the way!)is to quote Mr Lugosi's final words:-
"For you, my frend, they are the Angels of Death"
So now you know where that came from,too!
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