I Walked with a Zombie

Neil Bahadur5.0

There's almost no use in writing about it.....still, how Tourneur at least gets to the form is important - pulling down the veil of exoticism to reveal a history of colonialist exploitation... But at the end of the day you just have to experience it - one of the most abstract films ever made in Hollywood. So much is pulled together here in its brief 68 minute runtime: the aforementioned historical aspects, the doomed romance, the borderline surrealist visuals (this has some of the most stunning & expressive black and white lighting), the supernatural aspects, Jane Eyre, the linking of supernatural to the vengeful ghosts of slavery, once more linked to the atmospheric images...all convalescing into, uh, whatever the hell this movie is

Sean Fennessey4.5

There’s nothing like this movie. It feels like accidentally walking into someone else’s bad dream and trying to wake them from it with no success until finally accepting that that very hopeless feeling is just your own version of a bad dream.

Filipe Furtado5.0

It remains the highest point of suggestive horror as a source of troubling dread. I find fascinating how I Walked with a Zombie revisits so much of the strategies of Cat People but expand it by presenting its romantic quadrangle of destructive desire into a much larger world than the previous film.