The Movie: I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
What Is It?: Val
Lewton’s disdain for the supernatural led him to produce a movie called Cat People that probably doesn’t have
any cat people and a movie called I
Walked with a Zombie that probably doesn’t have any zombies. Rather, the
film is a very loose adaptation of Jane
Eyre as a romantic familial mystery set on Saint Sebastian, where for a
refreshing change, the well-adjusted black majority condescends to the white
family falling to pieces on their old sugar plantation.
Why Today?: On
this day in 1902, screenwriter Curt
Siodmak is born.
