Jacques Tourneur

I Walked with a Zombie

I Walked with a Zombie

Producer Val Lewton and director Jacques Tourneur elevated the horror film to new heights of poetic abstraction with this entrancing journey into the realm between life and death. When she takes a job caring for a comatose woman on a Caribbean island, a young nurse (Frances Dee) finds herself plunged into a mysterious world where the ghosts of slavery haunt the present and Vodou priests have the power to summon the living dead. Sugarcane swaying in a moonlit field, the hypnotic beat of ceremonial drums, the relentless pull toward death—the otherworldly atmosphere of this bold reimagining of Jane Eyre is as close as studio-era Hollywood ever came to pure dream-state surrealism.

Film Info

  • United States
  • 1943
  • 69 minutes
  • Black & White
  • 1.37:1
  • English

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Collector's Set

I Walked with a Zombie / The Seventh Victim: Produced by Val Lewton

I Walked with a Zombie / The Seventh Victim

4K UHD+Blu-ray Combo Box Set

2 Discs

$47.96

Collector's Set

I Walked with a Zombie / The Seventh Victim: Produced by Val Lewton

I Walked with a Zombie / The Seventh Victim

Blu-ray Box Set

1 Disc

$31.96

Collector's Set

I Walked with a Zombie / The Seventh Victim: Produced by Val Lewton

I Walked with a Zombie / The Seventh Victim

DVD Box Set

2 Discs

$23.96

I Walked with a Zombie
Cast
James Ellison
Rand
Frances Dee
Betsy
Tom Conway
Holland
Edith Barrett
Mrs. Rand
James Bell
Dr. Maxwell
Christine Gordon
Jessica
Teresa Harris
Alma
Sir Lancelot
Calypso singer
Darby Jones
Carre-Four
Jeni LeGon
Dancer
Credits
Director
Jacques Tourneur
Produced by
Val Lewton
Screenplay by
Curt Siodmak
Screenplay by
Ardel Wray
Based on an original story by
Inez Wallace
Music by
Roy Webb
Musical director
C. Bakaleinikoff
Director of photography
J. Roy Hunt
Art director
Albert S. D’Agostino
Art director
Walter E. Keller
Set decorations
Darrell Silvera
Set decorations
Al Fields
Recorded by
John C. Grubb
Edited by
Mark Robson
Assistant director
William Dorfman