Cinematheque . Film Schedule . WHITE ZOMBIE & THE CRIME OF DOCTOR CRESPI
UCLA Festival of Preservation Horror Double Feature!
United States | 1932, 1935 | Victor Halperin, John H. Auer
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.
Special admission $10; members, CIA & CSU I.D. holders, age 25 & under $8; no passes, twofers, or radio winners. 35mm preservation print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Preservation funding for both features provided by the Packard Humanities Institute.
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