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Zombie Nightmare is a 1987 zombie film starring Adam West (pictured), Jon Mikl Thor, and Tia Carrere. The film centres around a baseball player killed by a group of teenagers, then resurrected as a zombie by a Haitian Vodou priestess. The zombie kills the teens, whose deaths are investigated by the police. The film was written to star mostly black actors but, at the request of investors, the characters' names were changed to more typically white names. While Jack Bravman was credited as director, John Fasano directed most of the film, causing problems with the production crew, who believed Fasano was the assistant director and ignored his directions. Zombie Nightmare was released direct-to-video by New World Video. It grossed C$1.5 million against a budget of $180,000. It received negative reviews from critics, but was praised for its heavy metal soundtrack featuring Motörhead, Girlschool, and Thor. Zombie Nightmare was shown in a 1994 episode of the television series Mystery Science Theater 3000. (Full article...)

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Theatrical release poster for White Zombie

White Zombie was a 1932 pre-Code horror film that was independently produced by Edward Halperin and directed by Victor Halperin. The screenplay, by Garnett Weston, was based on the 1929 book The Magic Island by William Seabrook, and is about a young woman's transformation into a zombie at the hands of an evil voodoo master. Bela Lugosi stars as the zombie master "Murder" Legendre, with Madge Bellamy appearing as his victim. This theatrical release poster for White Zombie was printed in the United States for the film's distributor, United Artists; the original artist is not known.

Poster credit: United Artists; restored by Chris Woodrich

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