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Director 1895 - 1983

Victor Halperin

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Victor Halperin was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter active during the early to mid-20th century. He is best known for directing White Zombie (1932), considered the first feature-length zombie film. Halperin's work often delved into horror and supernatural... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

7 titles
Torture Ship

Torture Ship

Victor Halperin 1939 1h 4m 3.0

A mad scientist performs experiments on "the criminal mind" on captured criminals on board his private ship.

Buried Alive

Buried Alive

Victor Halperin 1939 1h 2m

A prison trustee rescues a despondent executioner from a bar-room brawl, and is blamed for the fight by a tabloid reporter who actually started it, and loses parole, becomes embittered, and gets blamed for murder of guard.

Nation Aflame

Nation Aflame

Victor Halperin 1937 1h 14m

Believing they can make a ton of money, a gang of opportunists uses the country's racial and ethnic tensions to start a Ku Klux Klan-type organization.

Revolt of the Zombies

Revolt of the Zombies

Victor Halperin 1936 1h 2m 4.0

On the Franco-Austrian Frontier during World War I, an oriental priest, chaplain of a French colonial regiment, is condemned to life imprisonment because he possesses the power to turn men into zombies. In his prison cell, the priest prepares to burn a parchment containing the location of the secret formula.

I Conquer the Sea!

I Conquer the Sea!

Victor Halperin 1936 1h 6m 9.0

1936 was a different world in Newfoundland - the bigotry and the unexpected ending will give you plenty to talk about and think about in this forgotten masterpiece of human drama.

Supernatural

Supernatural

Victor Halperin 1933 1h 4m 8.0

After her brother's death, Roma Courtney becomes the heiress to his fortune. When a fake psychic claims to have a message from her dead brother, he coaxes her into participating in a séance.

White Zombie

White Zombie

Victor Halperin 1932 1h 7m 6.8

A rich man turns to a witch doctor to lure the woman he loves away from her fiance, but instead turns her into a zombie slave.

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