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Post by GL on Sept 30, 2010 11:17:14 GMT -5
Moving into a new house in Haiti, the next-door neighbor's secret of running his profitable sugar-mill holds a deadly secret for his success, and when she eventually stumbles upon it, he takes drastic action to keep her silent and forcing her husband to stop him before she becomes a zombified slave under his control. What did everyone think of this one?
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Post by GL on Sept 30, 2010 11:17:45 GMT -5
On TV in October on the 29th at 12:30 on Turner Classic Movies.
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Post by abraxas on Oct 1, 2010 4:17:32 GMT -5
Probably the best of the early "zombie" films, those dealing with the traditional voodoo type of zombies, which is a whole genre of zombie movies unto itself, remnants of this type of zombie film can of course be found in Dawn of the Dead, Zombi etc etc etc. Also one of Lugosi's better films after Dracula, many of which were of very low quality.
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Post by HNT on Oct 1, 2010 9:04:24 GMT -5
I give it a 3. It is certainly iconic in many ways, and not all that bad, but not one of the elite films of the era
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Post by abraxas on Oct 1, 2010 9:35:53 GMT -5
I agree, but it is better then many of the voodoo era zombie films
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Post by GL on Oct 1, 2010 9:51:59 GMT -5
There wasn't much of any of them anyway, it was pretty much this one, Revolt of the Zombies, King Zombie, Revenge of the Zombies and I Walked with a Zombie. After that, the genre was dead until Night. Not much of a scene in my opinion.
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Post by abraxas on Oct 1, 2010 10:23:57 GMT -5
There were others, including The Oblong Box starring Vincent Price, which I think was the first "zombie" film to benefit from what Romero did in his innovation of the genre, for it was the first time "zombism" was spread from a bite and not solely the result of some curse or spell.
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Post by GL on Oct 4, 2010 9:50:47 GMT -5
And that's in the late 60s, which was my point. It was those original 5 films until Night, which brought them back into the genre's timeline. Doesn't matter about Oblong coming along, the original point was the small scene before hand which is what there was.
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Post by CT on Oct 31, 2010 0:56:57 GMT -5
I wasn't crazy about White Zombie, but had I been born in 1920 I probably would have really dug it. Not bad though, 3/5.
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Post by GL on Nov 1, 2010 9:39:54 GMT -5
Yeah, I think so too. One that doesn't really hold up all that well despite some nice atmospheric scenes of them working in the hills and everything, plus the Lugosi influence. I'd probably say 2.5, but I'll be kind to it and go 3 in the poll.
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