Wednesday, June 15, 2011

I Walked with a Zombie / The Body Snatcher (1943)

I Walked with a Zombie / The Body Snatcher (1943)

Literary classics become screen horror classics when given the Lewton touch. Take the gothic romance of Jane Eyre reset it in the West Indies add the direction of Jacques Tourneur (Cat People) and the overriding terror of the living dead and you have I Walked with a Zombie. Frances Dee plays the nurse who witnesses the strange power of voodoo. Boris Karloff plays the title role in the Lewton adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Body Snatcher directed with subtle calculation by versatile Robert Wise. A doctor (Henry Daniell) needs cadavers for medical studies and Karloff is willing to provide them one way or another. Don't miss his scene with fellow horror icon Bela Lugosi.Running Time: 147 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR UPC: 053939724325 

Special Features

  • Commentary by Film Historians Kim Newman and Steve Jones on I Walked with a Zombie
  • Commentary by Director Robert Wise with film historian Steve Haberman on The Body Snatcher
  • Theatrical Trailers

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