White Zombie is a 1932 pre-Code horror film independently produced by Edward Halperin and directed by Victor Halperin. Plot: The action of White Zombie is set in Haiti in 1932. Much of the plot revolves around Legendre, Beaumont, another plantation master, and a newly arrived couple, Neil and his fiancée Madeleine,[9] and how Legendre turns her into a "braindead" zombie.