New this week from VCI Entertainment is White Zombie: Cary Roan Special Signature Edition, directed by Victor Halperin and starring Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, Robert Frazer, John Harron, and Joseph Cawthorn.
"Wealthy Plantation owner Charles Beaumont (Robert Frazer) turns to Voodoo Master Murder Legendre (Bela Lugosi) to lure the woman he loves Madeline Short (Madge Bellamy) away from her fiancé Neil Parker (John Harron), by turning her into zombie. Murders intention are to keep Madeline for himself. Neil seeks out Murder Legendre to break the Zombie spell and return Madeline to the world of the living."
White Zombie: Cary Roan Special Signature Edition is available now on Blu-ray.
New this week from Kino is a remastered edition of the classic 1932 film White Zombie, directed by Victor Halperin and starring Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Cawthorn and Robert Frazer.
"After becoming an overnight success with his starring role in Tod Browning's Dracula, Bela Lugosi struggled to find roles worthy of his acting talent, without parodying his depiction of Bram Stoker's notorious count. Independently produced by Edward Halperin, White Zombie was one of the rare films that provided Lugosi with just such an opportunity. In spite of its budgetary limitations, White Zombie manages to be a remarkably atmospheric treatment of the Haitian zombie myth, which would evolve into one of the most popular and enduring subgenres of the horror film.
This Kino Classics edition, produced by Holland Releasing, has been mastered in HD from a 35mm fine grain print and is presented in both a digitally restored and an unenhanced version (with the natural film grain intact)."
White Zombie is available now on Blu-ray and DVD.
