Zombie Land

Excellent selection of zombie movies coming up in our small town and all for FREE!!

At BGSU's Gish Theater on Tuesdays:

October 20, 7:30 pm
White Zombie
(1932) U.S., 69 minutes
Director: Victor Halperin
Long before 28 Days Later and Night of the Living Dead, Victor Halperin introduced the walking dead to the silver screen with White Zombie. Featuring Bela Lugosi as the evil-eyed Murder Legendre, a sinister plantation owner and voodoo sorcerer, the film weaves a diabolic web of infatuation, jealousy and murder set in the rural cane fields of Haiti. Halperin’s inaugural entry into zombie cinema offers a haunting portrait of the racial anxieties that plagued the United States’ ill-fated occupation of Haiti from 1915-34.

October 27, 7:30 pm
I Walked with a Zombie
(1943) U.S., 69 minutes
Director: Jacques Tourneur
This eerie film tells the story of Betsy (Frances Dee), a young nurse sent to a Caribbean island to care for the comatose wife of plantation owner Paul Holland (Tom Conway). As Betsy settles into her assignment, she begins to uncover the bizarre world of secrecy and voodoo that permeates the island’s lush tropical environment. Is her charge really suffering from a naturally occurring illness, or is she the victim of something significantly more malevolent? Produced by legendary horror guru Val Lewton, this adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre is a classic tale of mystery and suspense.

And at the ClaZel on Wednesdays:

October 7, 2009
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
The dead come back to life and eat the living in this legendary low budget, black and white film. Several people barricade themselves inside a rural house in an attempt to survive the night. Outside are hordes of relentless, shambling zombies who can only be killed by a blow to the head.

October 14, 2009
Horror Shorts
A series or short films that celebrate the spirit of gore.

October 21, 2009
Little Shop of Horrors (1960
Classic black comedy about young schnook who develops a bloodthirsty plant and is forced to kill in order to feed it. The basis for the later hit stage musical and 1980s remake film.