It’s hard to believe that zombies existed before George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead hit the cinemas in 1968, but they did.
That movie may have rocked everyone’s undead world and brought the horrors of zombies to the mainstream movie-goer, but it wasn’t the first zombie film ever.
Romero’s film paved the way for the subgenre by providing us with gory special effects and socially relevant themes, but more than three decades before his release, another developed the blueprint.
Hollywood’s resident and forever Dracula, Bela Lugosi, starred in the first-ever zombie film called White Zombie.
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