I Walked with a Zombie

I Walked with a Zombie is a 1943 American <a href="/facts/Horror_film/SYz7Le6p">horror film</a> directed by <a href="/facts/Jacques_Tourneur/98mv9FGx">Jacques Tourneur</a> and produced by <a href="/facts/Val_Lewton/4wd6BnF2">Val Lewton</a> for <a href="/facts/RKO_Pictures/L39uAqh7">RKO Pictures</a>. It stars <a href="/facts/James_Ellison_(actor)/5oXYUNpE">James Ellison</a>, <a href="/facts/Frances_Dee/uqV2FnR1">Frances Dee</a>, and <a href="/facts/Tom_Conway/Jb0EFxpu">Tom Conway</a>, and follows a Canadian nurse who travels to care for the ailing wife of a sugar <a href="/facts/Plantation/jucwoWpV">plantation</a> owner in the <a href="/facts/Caribbean/zRI9aMCh">Caribbean</a>, where she witnesses <a href="/facts/Haitian_Vodou/20Pw3fb3">Vodou</a> rituals and possibly encounters <a href="/facts/Zombie/LR5MoBP8">the walking dead</a>. The screenplay, written by <a href="/facts/Curt_Siodmak/eU5FVAuF">Curt Siodmak</a> and <a href="/facts/Ardel_Wray/yaxg0Q9Q">Ardel Wray</a>, is based on an article of the same title by <a href="/facts/Inez_Wallace/Sq8Rdj8J">Inez Wallace</a>, and also partly reinterprets the narrative of the 1847 novel <a href="/facts/Jane_Eyre/gTvW4UmW">Jane Eyre</a> by <a href="/facts/Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB/vdHxKAoe">Charlotte Brontë</a>.
The film premiered in New York City on April 21, 1943, before receiving a wider theatrical release later that month. It has been analyzed for its themes of slavery and racism, and for its depiction of beliefs associated with <a href="/facts/African_diaspora_religions/FjzIyBgN">African diaspora religions</a>, particularly <a href="/facts/Haitian_Vodou/20Pw3fb3">Haitian Vodou</a>. Though it received mixed reviews upon its release, retrospective assessments of the film have been more positive.

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I Walked with a Zombie