Film Details

Two neglected 1930s horror films, both in newly restored 35mm prints! The first is a trancelike independent production often called the screen’s first zombie movie. (It’s something of a bridge between Universal’s classic horror films of the 1930s and Val Lewton’s suggestive, poetic productions of the 1940s, and inspired musician and filmmaker Rob Zombie.) Bela Lugosi plays a Haitian voodoo master who turns a young American bride into one of the walking dead. The Crime of Doctor Crespi stars Erich von Stroheim as a doctor who extracts terrible revenge on the man who marries his girlfriend. It was inspired by Poe’s The Premature Burial. Total running time: 130 min.