So today's feature film was "White Zombie". The quality of the movie was pretty bad but it is from 1932. The movie itself wasn't horrible, definitely clear its from a particular time when the thought of zombies was somewhat fresh.
The zombies in "White Zombie" were not your everyday, brain-eating zombies. They were dead but under a spell rather than driven by hunger for flesh. The plot of the movie is a jealous man wants to steal another mans fiance so he turns to a witch doctor to make her fall in love with him and dump her fiance. The witch doctor makes a potion and after she drinks it she dies and turns into a zombie under the witch doctors command along with his gaggle of zombie slaves. Near the end the witch doctor is killed and the girl comes out of her zombie state and embraces her original man.
The zombies I'm used to are dead, thus do not come back to life. Maybe in killing a zombie is where one can properly use the term "kill them dead". They're dead but not dead-dead. Anyway, this confused me but hey, it's a start for the zombie movement so I respect it. Perhaps this is where the phrase zombie-like-state came from, to be blank and not all there but not trying to eat your best friend, just kind of there.
I realize everyone has a different vision about what zombies will be so this was probably just an adaptation or what people honestly believed, more dead and empty instead of dead and hungry. This movie also was the inspiration for the name of the band White Zombie which is Rob Zombies first band so the movie had a bit more appeal because of that. By now we all should know how I feel about Rob Zombie.
I think this movie in its own way was good. The acting wasn't amazing and its not what I'm used to for zombie movies but its different and was interesting to watch. If you're really interested in the zombie genre and the genres beginnings it's worth seeing.
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