I Walked with a Zombie
1943 · Movie · NR · 69 min · ★ 6.8 · 80% critics
A nurse travels to a Caribbean island to care for a plantation owner’s wife, who has fallen into a strange, unresponsive state. As she grows close to the household and searches for answers, local voodoo beliefs and unsettling nighttime rituals blur the line between illness and the supernatural.
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Details
- Years
- 1943
- Release date
- 1943-04-21
- Language
- English
- Rated
- NR
- Runtime
- 69 min
- Critic score
- 80/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.8/10 (328 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a quiet, haunting classic that leans on mood, ambiguity, and voodoo folklore more than shocks, especially if you liked Cat People; Not for you if you want fast pacing or modern zombie action.
Pros: eerie, dreamlike atmosphere; thought-provoking moral questions; memorable voodoo sequences | Cons: very slow pace; thin character drama; few overt scares
Themes
- island
- jealousy
- love triangle
- nurse
- superstition
- voodoo
- calypso
- plantation
- half-brother
- psychological abuse
- sorrow
- sibling rivalry
- +15 more
Cast & crew
James Ellison
as Wesley Rand
Frances Dee
as Betsy Connell
Tom Conway
as Paul Holland
Edith Barrett
as Mrs. Rand
James Bell
as Dr. Maxwell
Christine Gordon
as Jessica Holland
Theresa Harris
as Alma
Sir Lancelot
as Calypso Singer
Darby Jones
as Carrefour
Jeni Le Gon
as Dancer
Directed by Jacques Tourneur