The lighting, shadows, exotic setting and music all contribute to the immensely disturbing atmosphere, making this stunning piece of poetic horror a classic of the genre. The local authorities investigate the next day, and the natives demand that Jessica be returned to them for "ritual tests.” Later, Carre-Four approaches the residence, but Mrs. Rand orders him to leave. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? The conclusion is ambiguous after the revelation of Mrs. Rand. Although she had never taken voodoo seriously before, Mrs Rand reveals that when she discovered that Jessica was planning to run away with Wesley and break up her family, she felt herself possessed by a voodoo god. [20], On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, I Walked with a Zombie holds an approval rating of 85%, based on 33 reviews, and an average rating of 8.1/10. I Walked with a Zombie is Lewton's most critically acclaimed film. Prod Co: RKO Pictures Prod: Val Lewton Dir: Jacques Tourneur Scr: Curt Siodmak, Ardel Wray, based on a “story” by Inez Wallace Phot: J. Roy Hunt Ed: Mark Robson Art Dir: Albert S. D’Agostino, Walter E. Keller Mus: Roy Webb Cast: James Ellison, Frances Dee, Tom Conway, Edith Barrett, James Bell, Christine Gordon, Teresa Harris, Sir Lancelot The Val Lewton RKO shocker, I Walked with a Zombie, was released on the 30th of April, 1943.Directed by Jacques Tourneur, it was Lewton’s second horror film for the studio, and followed his usual ambiguity between whether the explanation for events is mundane or supernatural. Then he pulls an arrow out of the statue of Ti-Misery and follows. When she falls in love with Paul, Betsy determines to cure Jessica even if she needs to use a voodoo ceremony, to give Paul what she thinks he wants. Tho tagged as a horror film, and boasting a title to further that inkling, I Walked With A Zombie is more in keeping with the dreamy and atmospheric romanticism of Jane Eyre. Its plot follows a nurse who travels to care for the ailing wife of a sugar plantation owner in the Caribbean, where she encounters supernatural phenomena such as voodoo and the walking dead. Housemaid Alma (Theresa Harris) then tells her that a voodoo priest cured a woman of a similar condition. On her day off, Betsy encounters Wesley in town. [22] Dennis Schwartz of Ozus' World Movie Reviews awarded the film a grade A, praising the film's atmosphere, Tourneur's direction, and story. Betsy gets Paul to agree to try a potentially fatal insulin shock treatment on Jessica, but it has no effect. I Walked With a Zombie (1943) Today is the second of our October 2015 horror movies. People are given advice through a shack door by a voodoo priest. American honeymooners in Hungary become trapped in the home of a Satan-worshiping priest when the bride is taken there for medical help following a road accident. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Wednesday 13 "I Walked With A Zombie": I'm damned if I voodoo, and I'm dead if I don't Kick the crypt and baby walk with me And we'll fin... Wednesday 13 - I Walked With A Zombie Lyrics | AZLyrics.com Of course, that the script is to blame is a little ironic. Saint Sebastian is home to a small white community and descendants of African slaves. Its consensus reads, "Evocative direction by Jacques Tourneur collides with the low-rent production values of exploitateer Val Lewton in I Walked with a Zombie, a sultry sleeper that's simultaneously smarmy, eloquent and fascinating. Tom Merriam signs on the ship Altair as third officer under Captain Stone. There is a creepy atmosphere with a beautiful cinematography, the non-stop voodoo drums and the native Carrefour, but no gore, violent death or scream. Its plot follows a nurse who travels to care for the ailing wife of a sugar plantation owner in the Caribbean, where she encounters supernatural phenomena such as voodoo and the walking dead. Betsy takes her patient without permission through cane fields past a crossroads guarded by an eerie Carre-Four (a reference to the loa Maitre Carrefours[citation needed]) to the houmfort (a place where voodoo worshipers gather). He asks Betsy if she would consider euthanasia, but she refuses. RKO Studios - 780 N. Gower Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. Watched on purely visual terms, I Walked With a Zombie gives a sense of unrest that the dialogue then processes into high-quality melodrama. A woman in search of her missing sister uncovers a Satanic cult in New York's Greenwich Village, and finds that they may have something to do with her sibling's random disappearance. A nurse is hired to care for the wife of a sugar plantation owner, who has been acting strangely, on a Caribbean island. svg-play Play. She determines to make him happy by curing Jessica. The screenplay is based on an article of the same name by Inez Wallace, and also partly reinterprets the narrative of the 1847 novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. Betsy meets Mrs. Rand (Edith Barrett), Paul and Wesley's doctor mother. I've had some very good experience with Japanese Blu ray releases of rare films - and some very bad. He then carries her body into the sea, pursued slowly by Carre-Four. Later, the natives discover the bodies of Jessica and Wesley floating in the surf. The next morning, Dr. Maxwell tells Betsy that Jessica's spinal cord was irreparably damaged by a serious illness, leaving her totally without the willpower to do anything for herself. That night at dinner, Paul tries to persuade Wesley to reduce his drinking (at Betsy's suggestion), but he accuses Paul of trying to impress Betsy and of driving Jessica insane in the first place. Wesley opens the gate, letting Jessica out. View production, box office, & company info. 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Publication date 1943 Usage Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Topics Horror, Val Lewton, Tom Conway Language English. The Knickerbocker News (Albany, NY), 15 May 1943. Replete with creepy incidents and jolting surprises, Zombie's brief scenes quickly advance its "Jane Eyre in the West Indies" storyline while giving an impression of a leisurely pace. I Walked With a Zombie (1943 USA 69 mins). (If tho… On the way to the plantation, the black driver tells Betsy that the Hollands brought slaves to the island, and that the statue of "Ti-Misery" (Saint Sebastian pierced by arrows) in the courtyard is the figurehead from a slave ship. Paul is furious, but is moved when he realizes that Betsy was trying to cure Jessica. Using an effigy of Jessica, the Sabreur draws her to him from afar. [16] This disc was featured in a Val Lewton box set released the same year. Young Canadian nurse Betsy comes to the West Indies to care for Jessica, the wife of a plantation manager Paul Holland. Mrs. Rand shocks everyone by claiming that Jessica is a zombie. It's a horror movie of suggestion, inference, punctuated with the occasional visual just sharp enough to prick through the feeling of dread and send a chill up the spine. At dinner, Betsy meets Paul's half-brother and employee, Wesley Rand (James Ellison), who clearly resents Paul. [3] Wallace's article detailed her own experience meeting "zombies" — not the literal living dead, but rather people she had encountered working on a plantation in Haiti whose vocal cords and cognitive abilities had been impaired by drug use, rendering them obedient servants who understood and followed simple orders. Though she tries to reform Bedlam, but the cruel Master ... See full summary ». When she investigates, a woman in a white robe walks towards her, her eyes staring. [13] It continued to screen throughout the country during the fall of 1956, into late December. Add the first question. Along this road and from a far distance two tiny figures advance toward the camera. I Walked With A Zombie. Along the … Search for "I Walked with a Zombie" on Amazon.com, Title: I walked with a Zombie is, oddly enough, a very elegant treatment of the walking dead. Betsy Connell (Frances Dee), a white Canadian nurse, relates in a voiceover how she once "walked with a zombie.". If that isn't enough worry, one of the people, a superstitious old peasant woman, suspects ... See full summary ». On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. She suggests an experimental treatment with shock to Dr. Maxwell (James Bell) but it fails. [7] Wray described the film as being shot on a "shoestring budget. I Walked with a Zombie is a 1943 American horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur, and starring James Ellison, Frances Dee, and Tom Conway. I Walked with a Zombie is a 1943 film directed by Jacques Tourneur, produced by the master of 1940s horror, Val Lewton. Then she was struck down by the fever. Was this review helpful to you? Betsy is shocked to find that the priest is Mrs. Rand. Kisses! [1] It was the second horror film from producer Val Lewton for RKO Pictures. It was the second horror … Outside, the locals stab Jessica in the arm with the sword as a test. "[21], Author and film critic Leonard Maltin rated the film three and a half out of four stars, praising the film's atmosphere and story, calling it "[an] Exceptional Val Lewton chiller". It is a loose adaptation of Jane Eyre. I Walked with a Zombie is a 1943 American horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur, and starring James Ellison, Frances Dee, and Tom Conway. Betsy screams, waking everyone. The New York Times was critical of the film, calling it " a dull, disgusting exaggeration of an unhealthy, abnormal concept of life". Val Lewton's I Walked with a Zombie: Betsy takes Jessica to the Hounfour Drama, Certificate: Passed Nell Bowen, the protégé of Lord Mortimer, wants to help change the conditions of notorious St. Mary's of Bethlehem Asylum (Bedlam). [14][15], The film was released on DVD in 2005 by Warner Home Video as a double-feature disc with The Body Snatcher (1945). While talking to the maid Alma (Theresa Harris), she discovers that another woman was cured in a voodoo ceremony by a voodoo priest and she decides to use witchcraft to cure Jessica. I. Walked.with.a. Written by Against the advice of the native maid, nurse Betsy (Frances Dee) brings patient Jessica (Christine Gordon) to seek a voodoo cure, meeting sentry Carre Four (Darby Jones) and various performers, in producer Val Lewton and director Jacques Tourneur in I Walked With A Zombie, 1943. Avoid like the plague. Connell travels to the Caribbean to care for the comatose wife of plantation owner Paul Holland. A ruthless doctor and his young prize student find themselves continually harassed by their murderous supplier of illegal cadavers. Take a look ahead at some of our most anticipated superhero series arriving in 2021 and beyond. I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE Original Screen Play By Curt Siodmak and Ardel Wray Based on Scientific Information from Articles By Inez Wallace The RKO trademark FADES OUT, to reveal a road lined with palm trees, spectrally long and straight like a vista in a Dali painting. A nurse is hired to care for the wife of a sugar plantation owner, who has been acting strangely, on a Caribbean island. 10 of 12 people found this review helpful. Check out our gallery of the 2021 Oscar nominees in the leading and supporting acting categories, as the characters they so brilliantly played and in real life. Roky Erickson And The Aliens. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "A Morta-Viva" ("The Living Dead"). A young man turns to a witch doctor to lure the woman he loves away from her fiancé, but instead turns her into a zombie slave. Episode 42 I Walked with a Zombie (1943) is a classic zombie film when measured on any scale. It was the second horror film from producer Val Lewton for RKO Pictures. [11] It continued to screen in North American theaters throughout the year, with screenings beginning as late as December 19, 1943 in Casper, Wyoming. Though “I Walked With a Zombie” is technically a horror film, the horror itself derives from the film’s lighting and atmospherics rather than traditional scares or vibrant gore. Start your 30-day free trial of Unlimited to listen to this song plus tens of millions more songs. Soon Betsy falls in love with Paul and she decides to help Jessica to be cured to make Paul happier. The next day, Doctor Maxwell reports that the unrest has sparked an official inquiry into Jessica's illness. During the night, she overhears a woman crying and she believes that might be Jessica and goes to her room. However the natives believe that Jessica is a zombie that cannot be cured. Betsy is hired to care for the wife of Paul Holland (Tom Conway), a sugar plantation owner on the Caribbean island of Saint Sebastian. I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE is a total disgrace, every existing DVD copy looks better than this atrocious transfer. I Walked with a Zombie is the second horror movie from producer Val Lewton for RKO Pictures, and is a rumination on both guilt and superstition. "I Walked with a Zombie" is an ambiguous zombie movie directed by Jacques Tourneur. Betsy has been falling in love with her moody employer. When she falls in love with Paul, Betsy determines to cure Jessica even if she needs to use a voodoo ceremony, to give Paul what she thinks he wants. I Walked with a Zombie (86) IMDb 7.1 1 h 8 min 1943 NR A nurse in the Caribbean resorts to voodoo to cure her patient even though she's in love with the woman's husband. Certificate: Passed [8], Principal photography for I Walked with a Zombie began October 26, 1942. I’m flad to see many reviews of I Walked with a Zombie, probably my favorite Lewton movie! Betsy Cornell (Frances Dee) is a nurse who is hired by sugar plantation owner Paul Holland to come to the Caribbean island of San Sebastian to care for his invalid wife Jessica. Betsy meets Paul in the ship and is welcomed by Paul's estranged half-brother Wesley "Wes" Rand (James Ellison) in the farmhouse. The plot is a family drama and the zombies in this movie are not like in George Romero's trilogy or "The Walking Dead", but related to voodoo in a Caribbean Island. by BERTUS. Bradt, Clif. [4], In devising the screenplay, Lewton asked his writers to use Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre as a model for its narrative structure, and to undertake research on Haitian voodoo practices. "[7] Shooting was completed less than one month later on November 19. "I Walked With A Zombie" is a deceptively adept film by often unrecognized master director Jacques Tourneur. She finds a creepy mute woman and she learns that Jessica had a mental paralysis after a severe tropical fever and is a hopeless case, unable to speak or have power. Horror. Zombie. "[19] A reviewer in Albany, New York thought it well-suited for its likely viewers: "rigs up a great atmosphere for the haunt and holler audience and, compared with 'Cat People,' the movie with which it is mentioned most often in publicity, it is a success. This is an excerpt from “I Walked with a Zombie: Travels Among the Undead,” which was published in the November 2011 issue of Harper’s Magazine.Subscribers can read the entire piece here; non-subscribers are invited to sign up here. (1943). [18] A critic of The Boston Globe felt the film "gets nowhere in the telling and finishes its overdone melodramatics with a most unconvincing climax. I Walked with a Zombie The screenplay is based on an article of the same title by Inez Wallace, and also partly reinterprets the narrative of the 1847 novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. [7], Anna Lee was originally slated for the Frances Dee role, but had to bow out due to another commitment. I wouldn’t like to meet one sombie like him while I walk through plantations Don’t forget to read my contribution to the blogathon! Lewton's favorite director, Jacques Tourneur, was at the helm, giving the subject the … Young Canadian nurse Betsy comes to the West Indies to care for Jessica, the wife of a plantation manager Paul Holland. "Voodooland Featured in Film at Grand." While getting ready for bed, Betsy hears crying. [12], The film was re-released in the United States through RKO in 1956, opening in Los Angeles in July of that year. Paul suggests that Betsy return to Canada, regretting entangling her in his family problems and fearful of demeaning and abusing her as he did Jessica. Mrs. Rand explains that she uses voodoo to convince the natives to accept conventional medical practices and tells Betsy that Jessica is incurable. Ken Yousten
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