I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (1943) This is horror movie Zen! A poetic masterpiece in subtle chills that build. A young woman is hired to be a live-in nurse on a South Seas island. The local religion is Voodoo and is ever present in the lives of the people. The nurse is to take care of a catatonic woman. Is she actually alive or a zombie under the natives control? A midnight venture through a sugar cane field is a true highlight as the voodoo drums play. An atmospheric classic in horror film. Produced by Val Lewton.
THE BODY SNATCHER (1945) Stars Boris Karloff, Henry Daniell, Bela Lugosi, Russell Wade and Sharyn Moffett. A young medical student finds himself in the midst of a medical professor with skeletons in his closet. Local cabman Grey was also mixed-up in the business and won't let the medical teacher forget. Gruesome doings with Lugosi attempting to blackmail "The Body Snatcher" and unscrupulous means for acquiring dissection material. All this unsavory story is unfolded with delicacy and poetry by director Robert Wise and Producer Val Lewton.
