https://vo.rs/tags/zombie-cinema/Latest from the Zombie Cinema desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Sun, 12 Nov 2023 08:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/i-walked-with-a-zombie-the-jane-eyre-of-the-undead/<p>The story goes that RKO handed Val Lewton the title <em>I Walked With a Zombie</em> before there was a script, an idea, or a reason — just a sensational phrase pulled from a magazine article and a demand that he build a cheap horror picture around it. Lewton, a literary man who found the assignment vulgar, did the most Lewton thing imaginable: he took the trashy title and quietly poured <em>Jane Eyre</em> into it. The result, directed by Jacques Tourneur in 1943, is one of the strangest and most beautiful films the RKO horror unit ever produced — a Caribbean gothic that is closer to a tone poem than a monster movie, and that has aged into something like a masterpiece.</p>Sun, 12 Nov 2023 08:00:00 +0000