Monster of the Day #3013

Updated on April 16, 2020 By Ken Begg 6 Comments

Here’s a treat. A day or two ago the YouTube channel Cult Cinema classics posted a VERY nice print of White Zombie. Indeed, it’s amazing that an independent cheapie from 1932 still can possibly look this good. Somebody must have been preserving the master print for many decades.

The film provides Bela Lusosi, just a year after Universal’s Dracula, with one of his very best screen roles. (I wish there was more competition for that, actually, but Lugosi’s downward cinema slide is well known to you guys). If for some reason you haven’t seen the movie, or haven’t seen it in a long time, here’s a perfect opportunity to give it a look.

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  • Gamera977

    I know the word ‘classic’ gets tossed around a lot, maybe too much. But this is a true classic. And it’s good to hear about a copy that well-preserved. Mine is on one of those Mill Creek fifty-movies-for thirty-bucks collections and the transfer is pretty weak.

  • Eric Hinkle

    I’ll have to let some other folks know about this. Be interesting to see a good copy of the movie.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    Kind of like that Lee-Cushing “Horror Express” movie. Every copy I saw looked like a VHS transfer that had been driven over by a truck, but then someone found a beautiful print (in Thailand, I think)

  • Yes, I have the newer BluRay of HE and it is GORGEOUS!

  • Ken_Begg

    It’s always a revelation when after a lifetime of crappy TV prints you see a gorgeous DVD or Blu Ray release. I remember being gobsmacked the first time I watched my Wade Williams DVD for Beast of Yucca Flats and saw how spectacular it looked. Almost too good, really.

  • Gamera977

    If you get a chance check out the remastered James Bond movies. After years of watching the older films like ‘Doctor No’ and ‘From Russia With Love’ on scratchy grainy TV prints the restored films are absolutely beautiful. I’d swear I were watching a modern film set back in the ’60s!