Thought-provoking, literate horror from RKO Radio Pictures. This 'Jane Eyre'-like story is probably the most memorable Val Lewton/Jacques Tourneur collaboration. This eerie film still holds firm after all these years. The story's menacing fear is not what appears on screen, but what hovers in the minds of the characters on screen. A young American nurse(Frances Dee)comes to Haiti to care for a rich plantation owner's(Paul Holland)catatonic wife(Christine Gordon), who appears to be burnt out by a tropical disease. Of course the locals believe she is a zombie...victimized by rampant voodoo. The nurse falls in love with her employer and is desperate to find a cure for his wife and seeks a cure at a voodoo ritual. Creepy enough with great eerie atmosphere. Rounding out the cast are: James Ellison, Edith Barrett and the beach strolling zombie...Darby Jones.
Review of I Walked with a Zombie
