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.
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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
A scene from I Walked with a Zombie
