如果你已经看惯了后来那些血肉横飞的丧尸片，不妨回到1932年这部《白魔鬼》里，感受一下僵尸题材最初的样子。卢戈西没有夸张的表演，他只用低沉的耳语和僵直的步伐，就把那种“被控制”的窒息感传给了观众。全片节奏偏慢，但靠光影和特写镜头堆出不安，适合能接受老片叙事慢、又想看僵尸题材如何从巫毒传说里长出来的影迷——毕竟，这片子里的僵尸连嘴都不张，却比一堆血肉模糊更让人脊背发凉。它把恐怖源头从欧洲古堡搬到了海地甘蔗园，用巫毒教的活尸仪式替代了吸血鬼的尖牙——贝拉·卢戈西这次不舔脖子，而是用一双死水般的眼睛和缓慢的手势，让活人变成没有意志的劳力。贝拉·卢戈西演的那个白魔鬼太带感了，那种阴森又想“变好”的纠结劲儿演得特真实，看得人一会儿替他揪心，一会儿又想给他鼓掌。适合的人群：不反感黑白默片节奏的老影迷，或者想看看“僵尸”这个概念最初长什么样子的观众——跟后来吃脑子的丧尸完全两码事。

　　Young couple Madeleine and Neil are coaxed by acquaintance Monsieur Beaumont to get married on his Haitian plantation. Beaumont's motives are purely selfish as he makes every attempt to convince the beautiful young girl to run away with him. For help Beaumont turns to the devious Legendre, a man who runs his mill by mind controlling people he has turned into zombies. After Beaumont uses Legendre's zombie potion on Madeleine, he is dissatisfied with her emotionless being and wants her to be changed back. Legendre has no intention of doing this and he drugs Beaumont as well to add to his zombie collection. Meanwhile, grieving 'widower' Neil is convinced by a local priest that Madeleine may still be alive and he seeks her out.

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