The nurse begins to suspect that voodoo may be the root of the woman’s affliction as well as the only possible solution left in the hopes of saving her. The film saw Frances Dee star as Besty Connell, a nurse commissioned to the Caribbean islands in the hopes of waking the wife of a sugar plantation owner from a seemingly phantasmagoric zombification. Tourner teamed with sophomore horror film producer Val Lewton of RKO Pictures for the second time after the release of the pair’s acclaimed ‘ Cat People ’ (1942), and the film marked the development of a subsequent standard for the low-budget horror films that would populate the decade to come. Likely the most esteemed film in the pantheon of pre-war zombie films, French director Jacques Tourneur’s ‘ I Walked with a Zombie ’ (1943) has endured as a sincerely effective mystery and a lasting rumination on the dehumanization of colonialism. While some segments of the film’s audio record have been lost to time and most of its terror has dried up in light of its more outlandish stylings, it remains an enjoyable and brisk watch made all the more essential due to its place in film history. The plan goes awry when Legendere decides to take Madeline for himself and casts a spell that leaves the woman little less than a listless lumbering zombie. Lugosi’s mystical Legendere sets his sights on the unsuspecting Madeline after being tasked to lure her away from her fiance by a wealthy landowner smitten by her.
The film starred monster-movie maestro Bela Lugosi, famous for starring roles in the likes of ‘ Dracula ’ (1931) and ‘ The Wolf Man ’ (1941), as a nefarious sorcerer with the ability to turn the living into zombies to serve his own wicked will. The origins of the examinate creature’s screen career is widely traced back to director Victor Halperin’s esoterically impressive gothic island horror ‘ White Zombie ’ (1932).
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