Controversial issues imbue the gothic hugger-mugger of this film and The Seventh Victim with intimacy and intensity.

| Oct 21, 2024

As a pure shocker, I Walked with a Zombie has its moments. Weird lighting effects and the Calypso music and singing of Sir Lancelot heighten the eerie illusion.

| Sep 28, 2022

Tourneur apparently has that art of generating the "mystic atmosphere," which is so important in these eerie film plays.

| Sep 28, 2022

Its many ingredients, most of them calculated to tingle the spine, are woven by producer Val Lewton and director Jacques Tourner in such fashion as to make them agreeable to the fans seeking thrills.

| Sep 28, 2022

It's good "escape" stuff, this RKO Radio production... A most dramatic beginning is offset by the confusion in the ending, but it will still give you the creeps, pretty nearly all the way through.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 28, 2022

I Walked with a Zombie is a new horror picture, but it gets nowhere in the telling and finishes its overdone melodramatics with a most unconvincing climax.

| Sep 28, 2022

Tourneur’s imagery, as in Cat People, casts a spectral spell...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 23, 2022

Zombie was a progressive movie in dealing with issues of race.

| Mar 16, 2021

...a woefully half-baked (and thoroughly forgettable) piece of work.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 9, 2021

Fascinating from a production point of view, I Walked With a Zombie, is as entertainment, chilled to the right temperature.

| Oct 8, 2020

Horror fans may find this picture to their taste in that it is fantastic, mysterious, and eerie, but most spectators will find the story unsatisfactory, for... it leaves one with the feeling that it is either incomplete or it had no point.

| Oct 8, 2020

It creeps along with eerie tread, a slow devastating dark thing that holds and fascinates. And while one is well aware it's so much hooey, the story is told with such conviction it can't be taken lightly.

| Oct 8, 2020

Even devotees of horror films, who are the ideal audience for this exhibit, will find it tough to extract more than a passing amount of entertainment from I Walked With a Zombie.

| Oct 8, 2020

It has been well written and is acted with restraint: the horror never becomes melodramatic or flamboyant. Fine photography helps to achieve superb atmosphere.

| Oct 8, 2020

A rather existential, darkly poetic tale of undying love, spellbinding, and zombies.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 5, 2020

The lighting, shadows, exotic setting and music all contribute to the immensely disturbing atmosphere, making this stunning piece of poetic horror a classic of the genre.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 6, 2013

Between Halperin's White Zombie and Mizoguchi's Ugetsu lies Jacques Tourneur's masterpiece

| May 12, 2013

Instead of true horror, what the film has to offer is atmosphere by the bucketful.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 13, 2012

I Walked with a Zombie is a horror film for grownups, which presents a complex picture of human relations and offers multiple explanations for events portrayed without definitively endorsing any of them.

| Oct 14, 2011

Sultry, claustrophobic, the guilt repressed here is the spectre of slavery stencilled over another abandonment of another wife...

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 22, 2009