White Zombie (1932)

avatar · **Posted:** Tue Mar 23, 2004 10:35 pm **Post subject:** White Zombie (1932)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023694/

According to this

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The idea of zombies was introduced to mainstream western culture in 1929 when William B. Seabrook wrote The Magic Island, detailing his observations of life in Haiti, including the practice of voodoo. Zombies are part of the voodoo religion, although only of a small subsect, referred to as the "cult of the dead." The practitioners of mainstream voodoo typically wanted nothing to do with these necromancers, according to Seabrook. Nevertheless, in the decades to come, in western culture the ideas of voodoo and zombies became inextricably intertwined.

The release of this book inspired a movie in the burgeoning film industry, White Zombie (1932). In it, a young couple stopping off in Haiti to get married fall victim to "Murder" Legendre, a voodoo practitioner played by Bela Lugosi. The zombies in this film are fairly close to Seabrook's portrayal: they are mindless slaves being used as cheap labor. They need to be taken from the grave almost immediately after being buried; if they have started to rot, they are no good. Seabrook's zombies won't attack you, either. When they aren't working away under the eye of their master, they're staring blankly into space.
(found in spud's 'Zombie [Proper] post

'White Zombie' seems to be the first zombie movie ever. therefore i would really like to see it. on the mule i found only this spanish version:

ed2k://|file|La.Legi?n.de.lOs.hombres.Sin.alMa(whiTe.zomb??).1932.dvdrip.sPANiSH.Vcd.by.thx.1137.mpg|696465616|5775ACB82D0E5F442563F5BBBBD19464|/

does anyone have an english version?

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Thu Mar 25, 2004 2:12 am **Post subject:**

I'm suprised this one isn't available!
I've got it on my dvd rental list but it might take em months to get round to send it me. I decreased the priority of lots of film and bumped this movie up to top priority

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Wed Mar 31, 2004 9:27 pm **Post subject:**

damn i just got this through the post today and you won't be here for a while :lol:

http://forum.dead-donkey.com/viewtopic.php?t=3485
When you get back, I'll rip and release it

Purple.Nightmare · **Posted:** Wed Mar 31, 2004 10:19 pm **Post subject:**

hey, i wouldnt mind seeing this either

avatar · **Posted:** Wed Mar 31, 2004 10:28 pm **Post subject:**

spudthedestroyer wrote:

damn i just got this through the post today and you won't be here for a while :lol:

http://forum.dead-donkey.com/viewtopic.php?t=3485
When you get back, I'll rip and release it

shit, this really is too bad. but i'm looking very much forward to seeing it when i'm back... :roll:

maybe there are enough other people interested, so then i'll be able to download an already hugely spread file!

carlos66 · **Posted:** Wed Mar 31, 2004 11:51 pm **Post subject:**

avatar wrote:

but i'm looking very much forward to seeing it when i'm back... :roll:

be quick, I'm waiting too :mrgreen:

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Thu Apr 01, 2004 12:44 am **Post subject:**

might as well rip it before and then can of course reshare if it should die.

Blood Gnomes first though, its surprisingly requested despite its suckiness :lol:

Purple.Nightmare · **Posted:** Thu Apr 01, 2004 7:15 pm **Post subject:**

no prob can wait as got way loads in my queue already

avatar · **Posted:** Thu Aug 12, 2004 8:24 pm **Post subject:**

well spud, i'm back. where is my movie? :roll:

i was hoping you have now time and enough disk space to release it...

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Thu Aug 12, 2004 10:34 pm **Post subject:**

Shelved behind some rarer stuff I'm afraid. It's on the horror channel tomorrow (or was it tonight)... soon anyway, for those that can't wait :lol:

It will be released though, just has to work its way through a system (which got a little backtracked because of some Crusade captures coming out undersized repeatedly)

karstmobile · **Posted:** Thu Aug 12, 2004 11:27 pm **Post subject:**

What about this?:

http://www.archive.org/movies/details-d ... ite_zombie

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Fri Aug 13, 2004 12:04 am **Post subject:**

Butt ugly encodes though from what I hear, and probably from a naff print. But yes. Shame the guy doesn't hop on ed2k and grab some of my public domain releases like Lil' shop and The Terror

There some neat flicks on that site, but there also seems to be problems with censorship and broken encodes

There's the MPEG2 DVD stream though of course, grab it direct:
http://freecache.org/http://www.archive ... ombie.mpeg *try this one first, its the cache and should be faster*
http://www.archive.org/download/white_z ... ombie.mpeg

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Sun Aug 15, 2004 10:05 pm **Post subject:**

found a seemingly decent rip on suprnova:
http://66.90.75.92/suprnova//torrents/2 ... oterpooter).torrent
You need to register to download, just click the tracker)

avatar · **Posted:** Sun Aug 29, 2004 9:46 pm **Post subject:**

i just finished downloading the dvd mpeg2 from archive.org and had a look at it. and i have to say this: KEEP YOUR FINGERS OFF THIS FREE DOWNLOAD!!!
:matrix:

the audio is absolutely awful. for the first 45 minutes there is a constant rustling noise which is quite loud. and then for the rest of the movie there's no sound at all!

damn, i downloaded 2.8 gb for nothing. :rage:

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Tue Nov 23, 2004 5:00 pm **Post subject:**

hey u done a mule search recently?
ed2k: White.Zombie.1932.Xvid-Litium.avi [699.98 Mb] [Stats]
Just checked before messing with the vobs.

Quote:

the audio is absolutely awful. for the first 45 minutes there is a constant rustling noise which is quite loud

The print had no decent sound when it was restored in 1932, or it was totally unusable. Had to be pain stakily restored. Same went for the picture, but luckily they managed to find a print that wasn't too badly detiriorated.

I wouldn't expect that to be much better in terms of noise. We are talking 70 years old when the print was restored, negatives start to deterioate immediately, if you have a print thats viewable without total reconstruction after 30 years your damn lucky.

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