Horror Classics #1: White Zombie

The Halperin Brothers made
White Zombie

In just 11 days back in 1932, with $50,000 and sets left standing from Universal's Dracula and Frankenstein. Keeping dialogue to a minimum, they wisely let cameraman Arthur Martinelli cut loose on this odd fairy tell, avoiding the stagy static feel that pervades most early talkies. White Zombie doesn't ell us a story when it can show us one.