Double bill - I Walked with a Zombie and White Zombie. I love this pair of atmospheric, flickering old movies. Both root the zombie legend in slavery which is as it should be - Romero twigged this in Dawn and gave it a consumerist spin - but the nuances have been lost over the years and now the zombie is just a cannibalistic monster, end of story. Of the two the Lewton is the accepted classic but I think White Zombie is just as good and, in a B-movie way, the more entertaining - the lemming like ending is priceless. The creepy use of music is also fantastic in these films.
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