TITLE...........: I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
STARS...........: James Ellison, Frances Dee, Tom Conway
DIRECTOR........: Jacques Tourneur
WRITERS.........: Curt Siodmak, Ardel Wray, Inez Wallace
GENRE...........: Horror, Drama, Mystery, Fantasy
TOMATOMETER.....: 85/73
IMDB SCORE......: 7.0
IMDB LINK.......: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036027
RUNTIME.........: 1h 09mn
SIZE............: 4.50 GB
VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L4)
BITRATE.........: 9000 Kbps (2-pass)
RESOLUTION......: 1480x1080
ASPECT RATIO....: 1.37:1
FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps
AUDIO1..........: English FLAC 1.0
AUDIO2..........: Commentary by authors Kim Newman and Stephen Jones
AUDIO3..........: Essays from Adam Roche’s The Secret History of Hollywood
SUBTITLES.......: ENG
SOURCE..........: Criterion Blu-ray
ENCODE DATE.....: 2024-11-06
CHECKSUM........: 7F6E14C4E7B005D53B4F4B240D352797


Producer Val Lewton and director Jacques Tourneur elevated the horror film to new heights of poetic abstraction with this entrancing journey into the realm between life and death. When she takes a job caring for a comatose woman on a Caribbean island, a young nurse (Frances Dee) finds herself plunged into a mysterious world where the ghosts of slavery haunt the present and Vodou priests have the power to summon the living dead. Sugarcane swaying in a moonlit field, the hypnotic beat of ceremonial drums, the relentless pull toward death—the otherworldly atmosphere of this bold reimagining of Jane Eyre is as close as studio-era Hollywood ever came to pure dream-state surrealism.


Extras

• Audio commentary featuring authors Kim Newman and Stephen Jones
• Audio essays from Adam Roche’s podcast The Secret History of Hollywood
• The Origins of the Zombie, from Haiti to the U.S.
• Tom Conway audio interview
• Trailer