You have to love such florid dialog as “Against an army of zombies, no armies could stand. “Revenge of the Zombies” (1943) - In this low-budget horror film, John Carradine plays a mad scientist who wants to raise an army of zombies to fight for Hitler during World War II. Thirteen years later, Marshall directed the remake “Scared Stiff” with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin. Faster than you can say voodoo, they encounter a particularly menacing zombie on the island.
Goddard is the young woman he helps who has inherited a supposedly haunted family mansion on a small island in Cuba. “Ghost Breakers” (1940) - This very funny Bob Hope-Paulette Goddard comedy deftly directed by George Marshall finds Hope playing a nervous New York radio broadcaster on the lam from the mob. Lugosi, who would appear in several zombie-esque thrillers, plays Murder Legendre, a voodoo master living in Haiti who has transformed many of his rivals into zombies and has set his sights on making the beautiful Madeleine (Madge Bellamy) his latest victim.įour years later, Halperin directed a very loose sequel, “Revolt of the Zombies,” starring Dean Jagger and Dorothy Stone, about an expedition that travels to Cambodia to destroy a secret formula that turns men into zombies. Directed by Victor Halperin, the film’s poster tag line proclaimed: “With these Zombie eyes, he rendered her powerless with this Zombie Grip, he made her perform his every desire.” “White Zombie” (1932) - A year after he starred in Tod Browning’s seminal 1931 “Dracula,” Bela Lugosi headlined what is believed to be the first zombie film.
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