A young coed (Nan Barlow) uses her winter vacation to research a paper on witchcraft in New England. Her professor recommends that she spend her time in a small village called Whitewood. He originally cam from that village so he also recommends she stay at the "Raven's Inn," run by a Mrs. Newlis. She gets to the village and notices some weird happenings, but things begin t find out more...

The tale is set in a smouldering, decimated post World War II in the town of Meridian. Keeping dialogue to a minimum they wisely let the cameraman cut loose on this odd fairy tale, avoiding the stagey static feel that pervades most early cinema. The Halperin brothers made White Zombie in just 11 days back in 1932 with $50,000 and sets left behind from Universal's Dracula and Frankenstein. White Zombie doesn't tell us a story when it can show us one and as such is one of the most visually interes find out more...