White Zombie!

Where to begin, oh my good golly this movie was horrible! When I saw that we were watching a zombie movie I was actually quite excited, considering I have seen quite a number of zombie movies in the past that I found to be awesome. Then I found out that White Zombie was actually the first zombie movie ever made, which both intrigued me yet caused me to kinda doubt the actual quality of the movie. And then all hell broke loose. I agree with alot of what was said in class that this movie seems more like an abstract dream then an actual "horror film," in that alot of images are shown as well as things said that really have nothing to do with the plot at all. For instance the water in the castle... what was up with that? Was it poisoned water, or perhaps a cursed river that captures your soul? Either way characters were becoming seriously troubled by it which made me feel at first like laughing but then oddly enough changed to me just becoming disturbed by it. The same is true of the vulture that shows up every once and awhile in the picture and that god awful noise that seems to be so over exaggerated it at first seems funny but at the same time gets under under skin.

I found the movie as a whole to be highly annoying and almost lazy in a sense. Th

ere was so many uses of the same shots, over and over again. How many times are they going to show the zombie master clenching his hands together, after awhile I just wanted to yell Ok we get it, you can control the undead and the living with your weird little handshake, stop remin

ding us! That guy was quite freaky to begin with, I think it was definitly unneeded to show him starring at the camera for long uncomfortable lengths of time. Another example of them using the same shots like its going out of style was when the main woman character is broken from the spell at the end of the film and her face is light up, and then darkened, and then light up, and th

en darkened, etc. Seriously, we just need to see it once, we know she's going to end up ok at the end, she's the white beautiful female, of course she'll be fine, we don't need to play the whole is she ok, no shes not, but maybe, it's not thrilling at all and borderline humorous.

The reading helped me big time with this movie, because alot of this movie made l

ittle sense to me, but Tony helped to show and explain scenes that even though I saw I felt were just kinda random. Not to say that most of that movie doesn't make sense, but through Tony's analysis I was able to derive much more from the plot and the characters. Although his points were very insightful there were parts of his paper that I felt were diving too much into a meaning that really wasn't entirely there, particularly when he describes who each zombie represented in the US imerpialism sense. I mean I could write a 10 page paper about how Titantic is a

ctually a metaphor for the French Revolution, it doesn't mean that that is the movies actual

 intent.