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Victor Halperin
Director -
Jack Pierce
Makeup Artist -
Enzo A. Martinelli
Assistant Camera -
Herbert Glazer
Assistant Director -
Ralph Berger
Art Direction -
Garnett Weston
Story -
Phil Goldstone
Producer -
William Seabrook
Novel
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CinemaSerf 6/13/2022 4:22:02 PM
This is quite a decent little Zombie mystery with a wonderfully evocative opening few scenes as the couple drive to the eerie plantation home of "Beaumont" (Robert Frazer). Now I'm sure Haiti would be a beautiful place to marry in 2020, but back in the 1930s it was an island awash with voodoo and coffin lids that go bump in the night, so when "Beaumont" takes a shine to Madge Bellamy "Madeline" he turns to the local witch doctor "Legendre" (Lugosi) to help him lure her away from her dashing fiancée "Neil" (John Harron). It's got all the usual flaws: (really) poor writing; Bellamy is as theatrical as she can possibly be, but Lugosi is much less like a dodgy Austrian Archduke and the paucity of lighting actually helps to create a suspenseful atmosphere. It's certainly at the better end of the scale for these cheap and cheerful horror stories and well worth an hour of your time, late at night, after a wee cognac or three...
Bela Lugosi
LegendreClarence Muse
Coach driverMadge Bellamy
Madeleine Short ParkerRobert Frazer
Charles BeaumontJohn Harron
Neil ParkerJoseph Cawthorn
Dr. BrunerGeorge Burr Macannan
Von Gelder- ZombieFrederick Peters
Chauvin- Zombie