I Walked with a Zombie / The Body Snatcher
by Jacques Tourneur, Robert Wise
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Actor: Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Frances Dee, Henry Daniell, Tom ConwayDirector: Jacques Tourneur, Robert Wise
Brand: Warner Brothers
Writer: Ardel Wray
Writer: Charlotte Bront?
Writer: Curt Siodmak
Writer: Inez Wallace
Writer: Philip MacDonald
Writer: Robert Louis Stevenson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 146 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-10-04
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Movie Reviews of I Walked with a Zombie / The Body Snatcher
Movie Review: I walked with a Zombie is Okay, but Body Snatcher was what I was after
Summary: 4 Stars
I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE is producer Val Lewton's second horror picture. The story is told from Betsy's voiceover in the beginning of the story. Betsy is a nurse who accepts a job in the Caribbean. When she arrives the island seems beautiful enough, in fact even on the ship there everything is beautiful to Betsy, although her new boss assures that things are not as beautiful as they seem. And that everything is death. It is after this encounter that Betsy admits to liking Mr. Paul Holland.
Her first night there Betsy meets her new charge for the first time. Mrs. Jessica Holland is a Zombie. Betsy tries other treatment to cure Jessica. She overhears a song in the village about Paul's brother Wesley and Jessica having an affair.
Betsy later resorts to have Jessica treated by the voodoo priest. And if I detail the story anymore I might ruin it for you. The acting and direction are okay, but the story is just okay.
THE BODY SNATCHER was based on the short story by Robert Louis Stevenson and it seemed based on the murders of Burke and Hare. (which is an interesting piece of morbid history). Dr. McFarlane and Dr. Fettes are working at school where anatomical and medical research and education is done. McFarlane has an associate who retireves recently buried bodies from the graves in order to supply the researchers with fesh cadavers.
Well a young woman comes to ask for Dr. Mcfarlane's help on a medical project that only he can help her with. Dr. McFarlane refuses, only because he doesn't have a cadaver to practice on. So in an effort to help Fettes asks the grave robber Gray (Karloff) to get them another body as soon as he can. Gray needs the money and instead he kills someone to supply the docotors with their cadaver. And so the creepiness really begins.
I enjoyed the Body Snatchers more out of the two. I especially enjoyed the burking between Karloff and Lugosi. Lugosi has a smaller role as one of the janitors and the school or facility, but all in all and enjoyable duo.
Summary of I Walked with a Zombie / The Body Snatcher
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:?053939724325Drama DVD Video
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