A nice young couple accepts an old friend's invitation to his sugar plantation for their wedding, but he's got designs on the girl, and hires next-door neighbor, zombie maker Bela Lugosi, to turn her into a Living Dead for awhile so that the fiance will leave and HE can have her. Bela decides, once she is an animated corpse, that he likes her too much to let her go. More zombifyin' is called for. A good, creepy, seemingly Vampyr-inspired (non) thriller from the low-rent Halperin brothers, who actually mounted a pretty impressive film (by leasing sets from Universal and offering some very good matte special effects). It's slow-moving and talkie and the cast besides Bela isn't too good (John Harron is the sissy-boy-type fiance, Madge Bellamy is the pretty but dull leading lady, goofy-looking Robert Frazer is the guy with designs on Madge; he looks like a refugee from Reefer Madness). I did like Joe Cawthorn as the wacky missionary who plays, pretty much, the Van Helsing character, only much more humorous (he's forever looking for a match for his pipe). The Kino Blu-ray is a mess; the feature is scrubbed so clean of artifacts that it gets blurry from time to time. Some of the scenes look fine, but the film has many extreme closeups and you can see what a horrible job was done with the HD process, as splotches appear out of nowhere. A second Blu-ray has been released from VCI Entertainment and it's much, much better. Ask for that one.