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White Zombie is a 1932 pre-Code horror film independently produced by Edward Halperin and directed by Victor Halperin.The screenplay by Garnett Weston, based on The Magic Island by William Seabrook, is about a young woman's transformation into a zombie at the hands of an evil voodoo master.
White Zombie was co-founded by Rob Zombie, after coming up with the band idea in 1985 while attending Parsons School of Design in his junior year. Zombie named the band after a 1932 horror movie starring Bela Lugosi called White Zombie, considered the first true zombie movie (the movie title was also the source for Rob Zombie's stage name, as he was born Robert Cummings).
The American horror film was properly created in the 1930s, most notably the Universal Horror film productions. [1] White Zombie is considered the first feature-length zombie film and has been described as the archetype and model of all zombie movies.
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English: White Zombie, American horror film directed by by Victor Halperin and produced by his brother Edward.Written by Garnett Weston and based on William Seabrook's novel The Magic Island, it's about a young man who turns to a witch doctor to lure the woman he loves away from her fiancé, but instead turns her into a zombie slave.
Victor Halperin's White Zombie was released in 1932 and is often cited as the first zombie film. [1] [2] [3] A number of zombie films were produced in the late 1930s and 1940s, including I Walked with a Zombie (1943).
He took the stage name "Rob Zombie" from Bela Lugosi's 1932 horror film White Zombie, from which he also took White Zombie's band name. The name first shows up on White Zombie's 1989 EP God of Thunder. [26] [27] He had previously used the name "Rob Straker" on the White Zombie LPs Soul-Crusher and Make Them Die Slowly.
Bellamy remained out of public view until the 1980s, when film historians and silent film fans who had rediscovered her work began requesting interviews. She also began attending screenings of the low budget horror film White Zombie, which was a moderate success upon its initial release and has since become a cult classic. [22]