Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 26:13 — 24.3MB)
In this Second Edition of DEAD MAN STILL WALKING, Dr. Walking Dead beckons you to explore the very first of the essential zombie films of our time, White Zombie (1932). Directed by Victor Halperin and starring screen Horror legend Bela Lugosi, “White Zombie” gives us the first-ever onscreen zombies. Dr. Walking Dead Kyle Bishop discusses this important film’s historical significance and context (as well as its problems). Kyle also talks about this movie’s ethnographic fidelity, includes some minor analysis and gives us the moral of the story. Also in Episode 015,, Dr. Bishop brings us a quick overview of a few, less significant zombie films of the 1930s and ‘40s, including “Ouanga” (1935), “Revolt of the Zombie” (1936), “The Ghost Breakers” (1940), “King of the Zombies” (1941) and “Bowery at Midnight” (1942). Join us!
Note: To view ALL of Dr. Bishop’s Dead Man Still Walking solocast episode can USE THIS LINK.
Dead Man Still Walking is a biweekly, short-form solocast hosted by Dr. Walking Dead Kyle Bishop, author of American Zombie Gothic and How Zombies Conquered Popular Culture. Dr. Walking Dead also presents a popular segment called The Dead Zone on regular episodes of this podcast. For his Dead Man Still Walking solocast episodes, Dr. Bishop will focus exclusively on zombie films, with the occasional exploration of zombie-related themes, zombie television, and other zombie media (e.g., comics, literature, etc.).
Dr. Bishop is an academic and professional scholar of zombie films and other zombie narratives. He has been teaching for 22 years. Dr. Bishop serves as an English professor, Film Studies professor, and he’s currently the English Department Chair at Southern Utah University.
You are welcome to reach out to Dr. Bishop with comments or questions via email:bishopk@suu.edu, Twitter: @DrWalkingDead, or by leaving him a voicemail: (801) 899-9798. You can also watch the documentary, Doc of the Dead (2014), which features Dr. Walking Dead. Find more links below for Dr. Bishop.
Be sure to subscribe to Jay of the Dead’s new Horror movie podcast on:
You are welcome to email our show at HauntingYourHeadphones@gmail.com, or call and leave us a voicemail at (801) 899-9798. You can also follow Jay of the Dead’s New Horror Movies on Twitter: @HorrorAvengers
Dead Man Still Walking with Dr. Kyle Bishop is brought to you by Jay of the Dead’s New Horror Movies, an audio Horror movie podcast. It features seven experienced Horror hosts review new Horror movies and deliver specialty Horror segments. Your hosts are Jay of the Dead, Dr. Shock, Gillman Joel, Mister Watson, Dr. Walking Dead, GregaMortis and Mackula! Due to the large number and busy schedule of its seven Horror hosts, Jay of the Dead’s New Horror Movies will be recorded in segments, piecemeal, at various times and recording sessions. Therefore, as you listen to our episodes, you will notice a variety of revolving door hosts and segments, all sewn together and reanimated like the powerful Monster of Dr. Frankenstein!
SHOW NOTES
– Introduction
- Welcome to the second edition of Dead Man Still Walking with Dr. Walking Dead
- Overview of future episode releases
[ 00:02:26 ] – Zombie Movie Feature Review
White Zombie (1932) (SPOILERS!)
Dr. Walking Dead = 7 ( Buy it! )
– Introduction to White Zombie, historical context (and problems), ethnographic fidelity, and the first screen zombies
– Overview of the story and plot
– Climax of the film — showdown and resolution
– The historical significance of White Zombie, minor analysis and the moral of the story, Rhodes’ White Zombie book, filmic quality, content problems, rating and recommendation
[ 00:21:35 ] – Overview of Less Significant Zombie Films of the 1930s and ’40s
- Peter Dendle’s The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia
- Ouanga (1935) directed by George Terwilliger
- Revolt of the Zombies (1936) directed by Victor Halperin
- The Ghost Breakers (1940) directed by George Marshall – the first zombie comedy starring Bob Hope
- King of the Zombies (1941) directed by Jean Yarborough – worth a watch
- Bowery at Midnight (1942) directed by Wallace Fox
[ 00:24:36 ] – Wrap-Up: Coming Attractions
— Coming up in the third edition of Dead Man Still Walking: The Sadness (2022)
— In the fourth edition of Dead Man Still Walking: I Walked With a Zombie (1943)
Special thanks to website developer Jaxon Carroll and graphic designer Trump Widdop for their excellent work in helping Jay of the Dead’s New Horror Movies to have a nice, new website. Thank you! And big shout-out and thanks to Mister Watson and his son, Skylarr, for composing the music for Mister Watson’s Horror Hierarchy segment.
LINKS FOR THIS EPISODE:
– IMDb page: White Zombie (1932)
– Book: The Magic Island by William Seabrook
– Book: White Zombie: Anatomy of a Horror Film by Gary D. Rhodes
– Book: The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia Vol. 1 (1932-1999) by Peter Dendle
Links for Dr. Walking Dead Kyle Bishop:
Email Dr. Bishop here: bishopk@suu.edu
Dr. Walking Dead’s Bio Page
Book: American Zombie Gothic
Book: How Zombies Conquered Popular Culture
— Kyle’s Amazon Author Profile
— Doc of the Dead zombie culture documentary
— Kyle’s re-animated Twitter: @DrWalkingDead
– Learn more about Dr. Walking Dead
– Faculty Friday: Meet Dr. Kyle Bishop, English
– TEDx SUU Talk on YouTube: Why Zombies Matter
– YouTube: Zombies: An idea worth spreading about how ideas spread
– YouTube: 50+ Shades of Gothic: Zombies, Bodies and Boundaries
– YouTube: Why zombie culture is so popular?
Jay of the Dead’s NEW HORROR MOVIES podcast links:
Email: HauntingYourHeadphones@gmail.com
Voicemail: (801) 899-9798
Twitter: @HorrorAvengers
Subscribe via Apple Podcasts
Subscribe via Spotify
Subscribe via Google Podcasts
Subscribe via Deezer
Subscribe via Stitcher
The soundtrack music for Jay of the Dead’s New Horror Movies is composed and performed by musicians Fred Ingram; Nate Johnivan; Mister Watson and his son, Skylarr; and Jason Pyles himself. Please support our talented musician friends by checking out more of Nate and Fred’s links below:
Links for musician Frederick Ingram:
Website: FrederickIngram.com
Frederick Ingram’s new album Initial Exposure (includes “Voltairine,” the theme music for Jay of the Dead’s New Horror Movies)
Frederick Ingram’s YouTube Music Channel
Listen to Frederick Ingram on SoundCloud
YouTube Music Video: “Voltairine” by Frederick Ingram (the theme music for Jay of the Dead’s New Horror Movies)
Interview: Hear Fred Ingram on Jay’s Songwriting Podcast
Frederick Ingram’s Fish Bowl (Funky Margarita Mix)
Links for musician Nate Johnivan:
Spotify Playlist
Quarantine Dream iii
Thank you for listening to Dead Man Still Walking with Dr. Walking Dead, proudly brought to you by Jay of the Dead’s New Horror Movies, The Gold Standard of Horror Movie Podcasts.
Thanks, Dr Walking Dead, for this thoughtful survey of zombie history. I’m looking forward to the continuation of the series.
A horror movie topic I’ve been giving a lot of thought to lately is the effective use of violence and gore in horror storytelling. I don’t object to violence and gore in horror movies at all, but there really is an art to doing it right, a way of using these tools well to enhance the story and atmosphere of a film. I still haven’t been able to express my answer to this problem other than by citing examples.
‘The Sadness’ is a horror movie that really sticks out to me as a negative example. It’s a really great example of the misuse of violence and gore and the ineffective results of just maximizing on the violence. The results are not scary at all; it’s all just a gross and boring mess, not horror at all, just a bloody mess, a real chore to sit through.
I appreciate your work, Dr. Walking Dead, looking forward to the future! (this message is a classic compliment sandwich!–kidding!)
Thank you so much for the compliments and insights! I agree that violence and gore can sometimes be abused or used in place of something more substantial. I will keep your thoughts in mind as I prepare my next episode!