From celebrated director-producer duo Jacques Tourneur and Val Lewton (whose iconic Cat People was released a year prior) comes the story of a nurse hired to care for a powerful landowner’s wife on a remote Caribbean island.
Taking unlikely inspiration from Jane Eyre, this visually atmospheric (if culturally problematic) mix of Haitian folklore and racial commentary is a much classier affair than its exploitation title might imply.
I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
A nurse is hired to care for a landowner’s wife on a remote island in this Jacques Tourneur-directed horror.
- 1943 USA
- Directed by
- Jacques Tourneur
- Produced by
- Val Lewton
- Written by
- Curt Siodmak, Ardel Wray
- Featuring
- James Ellison, Frances Dee, Tom Conway
- Running time
- 68 minutes