VHS : I Walked with a Zombie
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Rating:  - I Watched This Dumb Movie
Two people walk along a beach. Then a nurse is hired to care for a patient in the West Indies. $200 a month is good wages. Mr. Hollander explains the cause of flying fish - they do this to flee predators! Miss Connell is impressed with Fort Holland, but few people are present. The accents of the step-brothers are explained. Their mother dines in her room. At night Miss Connell hears strange whimpering and goes to investigate in a dark spooky house. What will she find? The figurehead of St. Sebastian ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent.
I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur, 1943)
When Jacques Tourneur, one of the great directors of the forties and fifties, got together with Val Lewton, notorious B-movie producer (before B-movies were invented, even!), sparks just had to fly. The two of them worked on three pictures as a team in 1942 and 1943; I Walked with a Zombie, which adds a Curt Siodmak script to the mix, is the one in the middle, and often considered one of Tourneur's best movies (and the best collaboration between ... Read More
Rating: - Lots of atmosphere, with jungle drums and a wife whose problems go well beyond sleep-walking
"Everything seems beautiful because you don't understand," says Paul Holland (Tom Conway) to nurse Betsy Connell (Frances Dee), on their voyage to Haiti where she will take care of his seriously ill wife. "Those flying fish, they're jumping in terror because bigger fish want to eat them. That luminous water...it takes its gleam from millions of tiny dead bodies, the glitter of putrescence. There's no beauty here, only death and decay." If that attitude isn't enough to be off-putting, Betsy discovers that Holland's ... Read More
Rating: - A classic Val Lewton production
We are treated to exotic titles and expectations with titles such as "I walked With a Zombie." My only encounters with Zombies are those that process in an UNIX operating system that can not be killed. I also watched "Weekend at Bernie's II."
As with other Lewton productions he got a way with a psychological thriller in the guise of a monster movie. In the days of sailing ships a nurse (Frances Dee) is employed to go to San Sebastian to look after a plantation owner's wife (Christine Gordon.) She fined ... Read More
Rating:  - This is a 5-star B movie
What a strange, short movie! Set in Haiti, around 65 years ago, a Canadian nurse comes to the island to care for a woman who appears to be catatonic. We discover that the patient is, instead, a zombie! None of the two zombies in this film chase people, eat people, or any of the other typical stuff. They are just stupified and can be controlled by others. It is a strange, dark little film that achieves its effect through lighting and excellant editing. This is a gem of a film -- like a great short story instead ... Read More
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