I walked with a Zombie

Feature Film, USA 1942, black and white, 69 min., OV

A magical classic horror film from the director of "Cat People": The Hollands are living among their former slaves on their gloomy plantation on the West Indian island of St. Sebastian. When the young nurse Betsy begins working at the house she’s confronted by disturbing and confusing events. The mistress of the house has mysteriously fallen into a deathly apathy. Betty finds Paul Holland strangely attractive and repulsive at the same time. And when she visits the city, a calypso singer plays a song about the Holland’s tragic history, he predicts their great misfortune. Everything comes to a head when Betsy decides to cure the wife by getting her to visit a voodoo priest. They take a scary walk through the sugar cane fields, passing death skulls and hanged animals along the way. A zombie appears ... The street singer is none other than Sir Lancelot, one of the most famous Calypsonians of the 30s.