Film: I Walked with a Zombie

Treasures from the Yale Film Archive I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur, 1943, 35mm, 69 mins) New print! A young nurse arrives on a Caribbean plantation to care for the mysteriously catatonic wife of a wealthy sugar planter, and finds herself entangled by family secrets, colonial history, and whispers of the supernatural. With a score by Roy Webb and songs from calypso singer Sir Lancelot, this haunting reimagining of Jane Eyre glides between folklore, psychological drama, and gothic horror, giving us one of cinema’s most atmospheric and unsettling masterpieces. “A poetic gem” (J. Hoberman) with “caressingly evocative direction” (Tom Milne). 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive, made with thanks to BFI. I Walked with a Zombie will be followed at 8:30 p.m. by Maya Annik Bedward’s new documentary Black Zombie! The Treasures from the Yale Film Archive series is presented with support from Paul L. Joskow ‘70 M.Phil., ‘72 Ph.D. Yale Film Archive screenings are always free and open to the public. See the full film schedule here.