Yishui We continue with John’s 1965 treatment for a proposed remake of White Zombie. In this next bit we meet the sinister Countess Valdera. John seems to be having a lot of fun with this assignment.
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I apologize to Keel fans for not posting in August. I’ve been busy with my own many projects, some Fortean, some not. But I’m back, and here to offer you a definite curiosity: a treatment for a zombie film by John Keel.
In 1965, John was toiling away in NYC as a freelance writer. He had had a spell of writer’s block after the publication of Jadoo, and had not yet started investigating UFOs. One of the jobs he undertook was a treatment for a remake of White Zombie, the 1932 movie starring Bela Lugosi. The rights to it were owned by Sherman S. Krellberg, a film distributor and occasional producer; among other things, he distributed the Hopalong Cassidy films and repackaged Flash Gordon serials. (You can find more about him in this description of his papers at the Library of Congress).
The film was never made, but here’s John’s idea of what it could have been.
