White Zombie - Bela Lugosi

1932 American pre-Code horror film independently produced by Edward Halperin and directed by Victor Halperin. The screenplay by Garnett Weston is based on The Magic Island by William Seabrook. The film stars Bela Lugosi as a Haitian voodoo master named “Murder LeGrande who has a large, bushy uni-brow and who has perfected the art of turning people into zombies, (pronounced “sssombies.”). When the wealthy Brandon Hurst get a serious case of the hots for a newlywed named Madeleine, he enlists the aid of Murder not realizing he’s made a deal with the devil.