New Horror Movies Ep. 015: Dead Man Still Walking - White Zombie (1932)

Jay of the Dead's New Horror Movies

In this Second Edition of DEAD MAN STILL WALKING, Dr. Walking Dead beckons you to explore the very first of the essential zombie films of our time, White Zombie (1932). Directed by Victor Halperin and starring screen Horror legend Bela Lugosi, “White Zombie” gives us the first-ever onscreen zombies. Dr. Walking Dead Kyle Bishop discusses this important film’s historical significance and context (as well as its problems). Kyle also talks about this movie’s ethnographic fidelity, includes some minor analysis and gives us the moral of the story. Also in Episode 015,, Dr. Bishop brings us a quick overview of a few, less significant zombie films of the 1930s and ‘40s, including “Ouanga” (1935), “Revolt of the Zombie” (1936), “The Ghost Breakers” (1940), “King of the Zombies” (1941) and “Bowery at Midnight” (1942). Join us!

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Dead Man Still Walking is a biweekly, short-form solocast hosted by Dr. Walking Dead Kyle Bishop, author of American Zombie Gothic and How Zombies Conquered Popular Culture. Dr. Walking Dead also presents a popular segment called The Dead Zone on regular episodes of this podcast. For his Dead Man Still Walking solocast episodes, Dr. Bishop will focus exclusively on zombie films, with the occasional exploration of zombie-related themes, zombie television, and other zombie media (e.g., comics, literature, etc.).

Dr. Bishop is an academic and professional scholar of zombie films and other zombie narratives. He has been teaching for 22 years. Dr. Bishop serves as an English professor, Film Studies professor, and he’s currently the English Department Chair at Southern Utah University.