Thursday, October 08, 2009

White Zombie

During the 90's, one of my favourite bands was called White Zombie and is still among my most listened to music. The lead singer, Rob Zombie does a lot of movies and directing now in the horror genre. He's most famous for his films, House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects. More recently he directed Halloween and Halloween II. All of his work has a very dark theme.

Some time ago I discovered that Rob Zombie got the name for his band from a 1932 movie starring Bela Lugosi called White Zombie. If you click on the link, it will take you to the movie which is posted on uTube. It is in the pubic domain, so there are no copyright concerns.

White Zombie set in Haiti and is the first movie dealing with zombies. It is also the movie which most zombie films are modelled after. If you like old horror films, especially zombie movies, this is a must see.

While I'm on the subject of old movies in the public domain, here is a link to a bunch of films on uTube called Public Domain Theater Films, which has hours of old movies for your viewing pleasure.

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