LornaHansonForbes

SADLY, the actor who played the OSTENSIBLE HERO of WHITE ZOMBIE passed away in the late thirties...can't remember the cause...Polio?

Little tangent here, but it's nice to be writing about something other than DARK SHADOWS... Over the many many many times I have seen WHITE ZOMBIE I have never ceased to be amused- tickled even- by the JARED KUSHNER LEVELS OF INCOMPETENCE, INEPTITUDE AND OVERT STUPIDITY shown by the ostensible Hero of the film. Like, not for for so much as ONE MOMENT IN THIS FILM DOES THIS GUY DO ANYTHING OTHER THAN **** ALL THE HELL UP COMPLETELY AT EVERY TURN.... So much so that THE ACTUAL HERO, JOSEPH CAWTHORN- who I adore!!!!!!!!- actually has a scene with him on the beach before the last act starts where he basically politely tells this guy to shut the **** up and sit the **** down, and JUST SIT THERE AND DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING TIL I GET BACK FROM FIGHTING THE MURDEROUS HAITAIN VOODOO MASTER YOU USELESS SIMP OF A MAN. and then the idiot goes to the castle and is INSTANTLY SUBDUED.

and thank YOU! Now, not only do I feel validated in my MOTION PICTURE PRINT QUALITY ASSESSMENT ABILITIES, I can feel a little better knowing I am not THE ONLY ONE who has THIS EXACT PROBLEM everytime they try to get WATCH TCM ON THEIR ROKU!!!! VALIDATION ALL AROUND TODAY!!!!

strange. i've seen the film so many times i can tell you, what follows is the line "especially since DR. BRUNER (the priest who can never find a match) is a trifle skeptical about your motives Sir..." and then BEAUMONT mentions he will be going off to meet with "that person" soon and his butler warns him not to. it's relatively important exposition, but since the film isn't hard to follow, it doesn't really confuse things removing it... maybe they did it so the VHS tape would run a certain length? or maybe the specific print of WHITE ZOMBIE PRISM used for their transfer just happened to be one where that particular scene had damage and they cut it rather than finding a new print...?

THANK YOU!!!!! 👍❤️👏🌈🎶💋

Yeah, well, maybe if we’re spectacularly unlucky Rob Zombie will give it one of his patented “reinterpretations” and we’ll get a 2 1/2 hour version, with the first half hour comprised of shaky handheld camera footage of 12 year old Murder Legendre, struggling to fit in at Haitian middle school and living with a stripper mom and a witch doctor stepdad who is an abusive prick...

I used to enjoy the pops and hisses and scratches but then I saw the FULL RESTORATION OF "DRACULA" THAT UNIVERSAL DID IN HONOR OF THEIR 100TH ANNIVERSARY, and it is a different and more effective film without that omnipresent hiissssssssssssssssss on the soundtrack because there are extended scenes of DEAD SILENCE throughout the film that are very eerie as they were originally intended. i noticed even with the RESTORED WHITE ZOMBIE PRINT, it looked like they paid more attention to cleaning up the LUGOSI scenes and the opening, there is a dull conversation between the priest and the worthless "hero" of the story in his office where the picture still looked a little "iffy" to me. there's also still some light hissing on even the restored WHITE ZOMBIE print though...but the SUGAR MILL SCENE looked GREAT, as did THE OPENING CREDITS overlaying the BURIAL IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD- in some versions you can't tell what the hell's going on it's so grainy/out of focus,

WONDER WHY FISH ONLY GOT ONE...?

I bet you someone's great aunt has a box of SHAKE N' BAKE FOR FISH in the back of their pantry still....

I wonder if this ad actually aired during DARK SHADOWS...(1968)

Mom has got quite the rack and she is downright insolent about the fact that she don't fry chicken no more, isn't she?

AAAAEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CAN YOU EVEN GET SHAKE N BAKE ANYMORE? (Not that you'd want to...) ps- I live in the South, so it might be illegal here

AND THE SPOOKY MELON HEAD! Like the lovechild of SCOUT and BOO RADDLEY.

I can't with PLUTO TV, THERE ARE SO MANY GD COMMERCIALS AND THEY ARE NOT GRACEFULLY PLACED within the program, they start abruptly. One great thing about TUBI is there is ONE COMMERCIAL at the start of the show, then ONE COMMERCIAL BREAK hafway thru and that is it, so you can watch each episode in 26 minutes easy (they also cut the end credits short, which I wish they wouldn't, but it makes it easier to binge five episodes in the same time as a movie) i legit think an episode on PLUTO would be about 38 minutes long with all their effin commercials

please tell me, fellow child of the 90's, that you know what i mean by THE CREEPY SHAKE N' BAKE GIRL, yes?

thank you again! I will try to re-download the app again! (I apologize, I'm 43 but I am practically Amish when it comes to technology.)

one clue: in the poor copy of WHITE ZOMBIE that I watched on TCM ON HULU, during the scene where MONSIEUR BEAUMONT MEETS MURDER LEGENDRE IN HIS OFFICE AT THE SUGAR MILL AND JUST AS LEGENDRE HANDS HIM THE PHIAL OF ZOMBIE DUST, there is a bad jump as the film is missing a couple of frames, that is where I really sat up and noticed the bad quality, because I've never noticed missing frames in the version of WHITE ZOMBIE i've been watching for years.

for the most part, I've been happy with HULU, but there are a few things that annoy me (as is the case with everything though!) TCM ON DEMAND ON HULU tends to offer about 70% of what has aired on TCM for the past 15-30 days, and it's usually the stuff I want to watch 9although some things "fall through the cracks)

That is true, especially since they have such a cozy relationship with WB (Who I am pretty sure still own the rights to the film, although maybe I’m wrong.)

Literally, in the scene that I’m watching right now between the witch doctor and the priest, where the witch doctor is warning him not to go to the castle, there have been numerous scratches and there was just a severe jump (missing frames) in the film. There’s clear damage on the print and negative... But it’s sounding like it’s just entirely possible that for whatever reason TCM on Hulu is showing a bad print, whereas the net work itself showed the restored version courtesy of UCLA. I did catch some of the mystery of the wax museum, and they definitely ran the pristine restored version of it.

The mystery deepens!! I use Hulu, I have actually tried to download the watch TCM app because someone recently told me that they have adjusted it to where it will work on Hulu or Roku television, unfortunately it still asks me for a cable provider which I don’t have. I recorded White Zombie off TCM using Hulu a year ago, and it’s very strange when you record a movie off of Hulu, the recording actually expires after 30 days, but if the movie is re-broadcast the recording automatically frees itself up and you can watch it again, It is literally pointless to record some thing then, I may as well just watch it in TCM on Hulu because the films there expire in about the same amount of time, But whatever, whenever TCM shows white zombie it shows up immediately in my feed, and that’s what I watched yesterday with a TCM logo, and it’s what I’m watching right now, (the version that is running with a TCM logo) and I can tell you after just having watched the really clean version that Fausterlitz posted, this version is just not as good. There’s a lot of flickering and a very unclear picture. Granted it is not like a “walls of Malapaga” type situation, or a 1940s “ Gigi” type situation, both of those are inexcusably bad prints that TCM has shown in the past, but what I am watching right now with a TCM logo is DEFINITELY NOT THE BEST PRINT OF EHITE ZOMBIE OUT THERE!! All apologies if this was a long, confusing, and badly misspelled post, I made it with my phone. Also I’m really terrible at explaining technology.

Oh yeah, it’s not a perfect restoration, not on the level that universal did with Dracula, but it’s still unbelievably better than a lot of prints that are out there because this movie is in the public domain. The print TCM ran yesterday was so bad that I could not make it through the film, and it’s one of my favorites. The print I’m watching on YouTube right now is clean enough that I can appreciate the film and at least understand the dialogue, although there is a humming sound. But what I’m watching is, I think pretty close to our audiences in 1933 saw. I mean the print that aired on TCM yesterday literally had missing frames Where characters would jump across the screen. Someone somewhere has taken some time to clean out the picture on this to some degree, which is a hell of a lot more than I can say for again, that copy that ran on TCM.