Review of I Walked with a Zombie (1943) by Kenneth B — 30 Dec 2011

Thanks to BBC 2 having what seems like a Jacques Tourneur season this Christmas I've been able to catch up with the man's work. I Walked With a Zombie is a bit of an oddity. Much like Cat People, the running time is short, in fact it's barely over an hour and although it doesn't feel stretched it seems as though the plot is barely thick enough to sustain the run time.

There are some interesting ideas but it doesn't feel fully formed, there is a lot of the kind of subtlety that Cat People relied on but even less of a pay off.