This Day in Halloween: 1930s director of low-budget horror films -- including "White Zombie" -- Victor Halperin is born in Chicago in 1895. / Illustration by Lee Ernest
Victor Halperin is born in Chicago in 1895. The director of low-budget horror films of the 1930s, notably White Zombie and Revolt of the Zombies, as well as Supernatural, Torture Ship, and Buried Alive. He later denounced the films. He died in 1983.
