The In 1931, a Hollywood movie studio called Universal made a movie called Dracula.

I am Dracula.

The movie became one of the first great American horror films and began the first golden age of the genre.

It also made its star, Bélau-Sé, one of the ultimate horror icons, still remembered to this day for his portrayal of the vampire.

She was driven the man.

However, Legossi starred in another horror movie one year later, made by United Artists, a smaller movie almost forgotten in comparison to Dracula, but the movie introduced into popular culture one of the most iconic,

prolific and important monsters in all of horror.

zombies, the living death.

Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of the zombie movie and we discuss Jack Torner's

I walked with a zombie and Victor Halperin's white zombie. Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike and as ever I am your

host. If you're tuning in for the first time then welcome on this

podcast we explore and dissect the evolution of the horror genre by looking at particular sub-genres across several weeks.

Now we are currently just beginning our journey through the evolution of the zombie movie and as the intro suggested we are going to be

looking in depth this week at the original two zombie movies that's white zombie from

1932 and I walked with a zombie from 1943.

This is your spoiler warning for those two movies.

We will be talking about both films in depth.

And if you haven't seen them and you don't want to be spoiled, go away and watch the movies and then come back.

Now before we get started, I've got to say a huge thank you to everybody who donated money

and joined the Patreon page for the evolution of horror. I was overwhelmed by the

amount of people that actually signed up. I thought maybe if I'm lucky I'll get

sort of five or ten people donate money and we got I think over 75 people so far have signed up and

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