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Rating:  - "SHE WAS DEAD AND YET ALIVE!"
Frances Dee stars in this psychological horror thriller about a nurse who is sent to the carribean to tend to a pacient. When the nurse(Dee) goes to the island only to see her pacient in such a condition she realizes something is wrong. The only solution is to have her healed with starnge voodoo rituals. A very chilling sequance in which the two women walk through the corn field only to find a dog hanging in a tree and to see a life drained zombie awaiting for them on the other side of the field. James Ellison also stars as the brother of the sick woman. And featuring Tom Conway as Ellison's brother. A suspenseful movie with a chilling atmosphere. Directed by Jacques Tourner, 69 Minutes
Rating:  - *NOT a TYPICAL ZOMBIE MOVIE..MUCH DEEPER IN STORY CONTENT*
If a zombie movie could ever be "Poetic"..THIS IS IT!! Val Lewton is the master of CLASSY HORROR---I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE combines EERIE VISUALS with SURREAL BACK-DROPS that artistically depict the West Indies during the days of VOODOO and BLACK MAGIC. !!A TOP ZOMBIE MOVIE OF ALL TIME!! Any movie which teams JACQUES TOURNEUR with VAL LEWTON is worth the buy!
Rating: - Lewton's and Tourneur's best film
Jacques Tourneur's work in general and this film in particular contains the most creative use of lighting in the history of small to medium budget films. Narrative ellipsis, elegance,and modulated low-key performances are the defining characteristics of all the Lewton-Tourneur collaborations of the 1940s. What a meeting of minds and sensibilities must have existed between these two gifted film makers-it's all up there on the screen within the boundaries of RKO's miniscule budgets. This is a truly haunting and mysterious film, Jane Eyre transported to the West Indies with voodoo mysticism in place of the atmosphere of the English moors. J Roy Hunt's creative chiaroscuro and Sir Lancelot's insistent balladeer's chorus help to build a cumulatively uneasy mood which extends to the almost dream-like performances of Frances Dee (the gravely beautiful Mrs Joel McCrea), James Ellison and Tom Conway among others. Tourneur blends all these elements into a poetic tour de force about reason struggling with the unknown. Whyever are the Lewton films at RKO unavailable in DVD? I would have thought they would be among the first classics to arrive in this exciting new medium.
Rating: - I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE-FINALLY, I NEED NOT WAIT LONGER
I HAVE NOT RECEIVED THIS FILM AS OF YET. BUT TO TELL YOU ABOUT IT IS ANOTHER MATTER, BECAUSE I CAN. I'M FORTY-ONE YEARS OF AGE. AS A CHILD BACK IN 1969, I SAW FOR THE FIRST TIME AND LAST THE MOVIE I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE.
IT WAS WHEN THERE WAS STILL A LATE SHOW, LATE, LATE SHOW AND THE LATE, LATE, LATE SHOW. I WAS SPELL BOUND TO SEE THE ZOMBIES WHICH REALLY SCARED THE HELL OUT OF ME SO MUCH THAT TO THIS DAY AS A COLLECTOR, I HAVE DREAMED OF SEEING THIS FILM AGAIN AS WELL AS OWNING IT.
ALSO OUT OF ALL MY COLLECTION OF HORRORS, THE ONLY ONE THAT COMES CLOSE TO I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE, IS THE ORIGINAL 1968 NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD.
FOR THE TIME PERIOD BEING THE SECOND WORLD WAR, THIS TRULY MAKES IT A CLASSIC IN IT'S OWN RIGHT. I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THE LAST TWENTY YEARS FOR A PRICE I COULD HANDLE, AND I COULD NOT WAIT ANY LONGER.
FINALLY I HAVE IT IN MY REACH. I HAVE BROUGHT HUNDREDS OF HORROR FILMS FROM AMAZON AND RARELY DISAPPOINTED, AND NOW I HAVE THE ULTIMATE COMING AND A DRAWER IN MY CASE OF HORRORS ALREADY LABELED AND WAITING. THIS FILM IS NOT WHAT I WOULD CALL HARD CORE HORROR. IN FACT I WOULD CALL IT BY IT'S RESPECTED NAME, A HIGH LEVEL LIGHT REALISTIC LOOK AROUND THE BEDROOM HORROR.
THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT CAN GRIP YOU FOR LIFE.
TO TELL YOU ANYMORE COULD RUIN YOUR EXPERIENCE COMPLETELY. BUT LIGHTLY, THERE ARE ZOMBIES WITH EYES UNFORGETTABLE, MISTY ATMOSPHERE WITH VOODOO AND THE POWERS OF IT.
YES, DIRECTOR JACQUES TOURNEUR HAS DONE A FINE JOB WITH THIS ONE.
ROBERT DORSEY
DISABLED VET
USMC
Rating: - A CULT FAVOURITE.
Frances Dee (she was also Mrs. Joel McCrea for 50 years) is a private nurse hired by handsome plantation owner Conway to care for his wife, who is suffering from a mysterious illness that has left her mute and in a permanent trance-like state.........Like JANE EYRE, the nurse falls in love with her employer, and in order to free him of his burden, she takes the woman to a voodoo doctor in the film's heart-pounding climax. Unlike its classic predecessor WHITE ZOMBIE (1932) which believes in zombies, Lewton's film lets you make up your own mind. Exquisitely paced by director Tourneur, the film unravels the motivations of its characters slowly, keeping you slightly off balance while trying to decide if the supernatural is fact or only belief. Adding to the uncanny mood is a calypso score plus amazing Darby Jones as a dude you wouldn't want to meet on a dark night! One of the great supernatural mood pieces of the cinema, this cult favourite derives from a series of articles written for a Hearst Sunday supplement by Inez Wallace. Initially skeptical, she claimed to have actually seen zombies working as slave labour on a Haitian plantation. Rather than being dead, however, they were very much alive, but deprived of the their voices and free-will by poisonous drugs!
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