
Young couple Madeleine and Neil are coaxed by acquaintance Monsieur Beaumont to get married on his Haitian plantation. Beaumont's motives are purely selfish as he makes every attempt to convince the beautiful young girl to run away with him. For help Beaumont turns to the devious Legendre, a man who runs his mill by mind controlling people he has turned into zombies. After Beaumont uses Legendre's zombie potion on Madeleine, he is dissatisfied with her emotionless being and w... (Full plot summary below)
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Young couple Madeleine and Neil are coaxed by acquaintance Monsieur Beaumont to get married on his Haitian plantation. Beaumont's motives are purely selfish as he makes every attempt to convince the beautiful young girl to run away with him. For help Beaumont turns to the devious Legendre, a man who runs his mill by mind controlling people he has turned into zombies. After Beaumont uses Legendre's zombie potion on Madeleine, he is dissatisfied with her emotionless being and wants her to be changed back. Legendre has no intention of doing this and he drugs Beaumont as well to add to his zombie collection. Meanwhile, grieving 'widower' Neil is convinced by a local priest that Madeleine may still be alive and he seeks her out.
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| Video-Reviewmaster.comSteve CrumEerie horror classic features Lugosi as zombie leader. |
| Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)John BeifussIt leads the viewer inside a fairy tale, not a slaughterhouse; it's expressionistic, not extreme. It affirms the power of the gesture, the shadow, the shudder. In other words: Who needs blood-red cannibalism when you've got a black-and-white Bela Lugosi? |
| Projection BoothRob HumanickThrough its own ravishing simplicity, the film achieves the near-operatic. |
| Parallax ViewSean AxmakerThe divinely satanic-looking Bela Lugosi sinks his teeth into his best role since Dracula, a languorous hypnotist and voodoo master who dominates the film with his assured bearing and cruel control. |
| Needcoffee.comWidgett WallsIt's Bela. It's a classic. Unfortunately, it's also a dreadful little flick. |
| Antagony & EcstasyTim BraytonShines through its own failings; but how much better it would be if it didn't have to, if this minor horror classic were instead an all-time genre masterpiece. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzI believe it's the first Hollywood production to feature zombies. |
| Boston PhoenixPeter KeoughOccasional Ed Wood-like campiness notwithstanding, it established a genre that would rise from the grave whenever the economic state of the cinema age might summon it. |
| User ReviewSarah PGreat classic horror movie. Bela Lugosi's fantastic |
| User ReviewJaze GI own this movie along with others of Bela Lugosi the man is a genious! and so is the movie if ya like black and white i sugest ya take the time to watch it it's excellent! |