Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Jenna Walter The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Tad Pole . . . is one of the many medical dramas from that era showing that what was then referred to as "The World's Second Oldest Profession"--Nursing--was one of the quickest ways for a lady to earn her MRS. degree back then. I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE is somewhat of an outlier, as most of the movies churned out from this mold involved wounded World War Two servicemen getting serviced by and sometimes wedding the female nursing staff (this being the benighted times BEFORE "Don't ask, don't tell"). Instead of being called upon to serve a private with major wounds (or vice versa), Nurse Betsy's I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE adventure calls her up to action on behalf of a wealthy husband with a nonfunctional wife. As brother Wes notes, Betsy has all the meds necessary to allow her to fill this breach herself through attrition. Sadly, Betsy is not the sort of chick to get her hands soiled, forcing Wes himself to step in and do the dirty work. But as so many G.I.s found out to their delight in the mainstream cinema nursing docs, "Things go better with Cloak"--whether it's the white shroud of secrecy surrounding the nursing "profession," or their white wedding-like capes that do nothing to bridle their inexorable march toward that hallowed Bridal Aisle.

Martin Bradley "Jane Eyre" transferred to the West Indies with Voodoo, Witchcraft and the occasional Zombie thrown in. Jacques Tourneur's "I Walked with a Zombie" is considered one of the most poetic of all horror films and it's certainly that; it's a film full or beauty, (gorgeously shot in black and white by J. Roy Hunt), with its frights mostly understated. Like "Jane Eyre" it's more of a dark love story and it's beautifully done. Frances Dee is outstanding as the young nurse who comes to a West Indian island to care for the wife of Tom Conway in the Rochester role. The best sequences finds Dee taking her charge through a plantation at night to a voodoo ceremony followed by an even more frightening scene when the giant native Carrefour, (Darby Jones), comes to steal the wife. If this a B-Movie it is one of the best ever made.

dstanwyck That's what I said. What in the world, or rather, other world was that all about? Beautifully atmospheric and photographed and as James Agee said about Frances Dee "one of the most beautiful faces in Hollywood", and well enough acted. But - what was going on? One absurdity after another. No real need to make any sense out of it. After all, what sense could be made? None. Too many loose ends and unfinished thoughts and jumpings ahead and poorly scripted without anything holding it up. And, finally, who cares and if you do, why? However - it was exquisite to look at which is all that you need to do for this film. Just look at it and breathe it in. And, in the end, in this film - that is all that really mattered. 6 stars for "stuff" and 11 stars for beauty.

utgard14 Betsy Conwell (Frances Dee) takes a job on a West Indies island as the private nurse to the wife of plantation owner Paul Holland (Tom Conway). Paul's wife Jessica lives in a waking comatose state, believed to be caused by some tropical disease. Betsy begins to fall for Paul and tries to help him by finding a cure for Jessica with the native witch doctors.I Walked with a Zombie is the second of producer Val Lewton's classic psychological horror films. Although this is a mix of horror with the romance and mystery genres. The story is based off of the Charlotte Bronte novel "Jane Eyre," where the governess falls in love with the master of a large house who harbors a secret about his ill wife.I love this film. I love the ambiance, the sets, the unsettling mystery. There's an eerie atmosphere that permeates it. Jacques Tourneur, who also directed the amazing Cat People for Lewton, does a fantastic job here at creating this dream-like mood throughout the picture. Curt Siodmak and Ardel Wray provide an excellent script. As with other Lewton films, a sense of ambiguity lingers over the plot. Is Jessica really physically ill or has she been affected somehow by voodoo?It's a great cast. In addition to Tom Conway and Frances Dee, there's Edith Barrett as Paul's mother who believes she knows what caused Jessica's condition. James Ellison plays his brother who is in love with Jessica. Lovely Christine Gordon plays Jessica, and though she has no lines, gives a memorable performance I believe. This film also has a fine black supporting cast, with some great work from Theresa Harris, Sir Lancelot as an ominous calypso singer, and Darby Jones as the alarmingly bug-eyed Carre-Four. As with most of the Lewton RKO films, it's a truly great movie that everybody should see.