I Walked With a Zombie

Flicks with The Film Snob

Dec 26 2013 |

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Show Notes

For your Halloween pleasure this year, I offer the 1943 film I Walked With a Zombie. It’s from the famous horror unit at RKO headed by producer Val Lewton, and in this case directed by Jacques Torneur. Tourneur’s second effort in collaboration with Lewton achieves something like greatness despite a bit of mediocre writing and acting. The story concerns Betsy (played by Frances Dee), a nurse who is hired to go to a West Indies island and take care of a woman who has fallen into a mute, trance-like state after a fever. This woman is the wife of a dignified…

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