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Release Date: 2012
Cast: James Ellison, Tom Conway, Frances Dee, Boris Karloff
Categories: Movies, Horror, Supernatural, Zombie, Black-And-White
I Walked with a Zombie is a 1943 horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur. It was the second horror film from producer Val Lewton for RKO Pictures; the first was the very successful Cat People, also directed by Tourneur.
Betsy Connell (Frances Dee), a Canadian nurse, relates in a voiceover narration how she once "walked with a zombie."
Betsy is hired to care for the wife of Paul Holland (Tom Conway), a sugar plantation owner on the Caribbean island of Saint Sebastian. Saint Sebastian is inhabited by a small white community and descendants of African slaves. Betsy is brought to Fort... MORE
I Walked with a Zombie is a 1943 horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur. It was the second horror film from producer Val Lewton for RKO Pictures; the first was the very successful Cat People, also directed by Tourneur.
Betsy Connell (Frances Dee), a Canadian nurse, relates in a voiceover narration how she once "walked with a zombie."
Betsy is hired to care for the wife of Paul Holland (Tom Conway), a sugar plantation owner on the Caribbean island of Saint Sebastian. Saint Sebastian is inhabited by a small white community and descendants of African slaves. Betsy is brought to Fort Holland, where she is told the story of how the Hollands brought the 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.
That night at dinner, Betsy meets Paul's half-brother Wesley Rand (James Ellison), who works for him. While getting ready for bed, Betsy hears a woman crying. When she investigates, she is cornered by her patient, Jessica Holland, whom she had not yet met. Jessica walks towards her in a white robe, her eyes staring. Betsy screams, waking the rest of the household. Paul takes charge of LESS
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