Brilliant Film The Walk through the cane is so atmospheric with the wind blowing. I was introduced to this Film by a good friend of mine Many years ago and have enjoyed it ever since. Classic

*_'I Walked with a Zombie'_* - possibly the greatest horror movie produced in the 1940's. It's about as _un-Hollywood_ and experimentally weird as it's possible to get within commercial cinema of this era. The only others that came close - were the icy and haunting *_'The Picture of Dorian Gray'_* and *_'The Wolfman'_* - which plays out more like your typical _Val Lewton_ film, but with some monster-transformation inserts thrown in every now and then. But the enduring mystery - is the iconic and enigmatic actress who played Jessica Holland: *_Christine Gordon._* For someone who's famous zombie image has been reproduced for decades on posters, press books and film stills etc. - virtually nothing is known about who she was, where she came from and what eventually happened to her...

great movie

Love the the "I walked with a Zombie" My friend who is 96 and blind was chanting the song tonight. She will be so happy to hear it. Yes she has her marbles!!! Nite xo

Back in the days when zombies looked just like people.

Zombie is my favorite of Mr. Lewton's horror classics, it is mesmerizing and so poetic.

Very interesting song.

It's 2am on a Saturday night. I had fallen asleep with the television tuned to a station that showed old films a few hours prior. I awoke in a daze to see this very scene playing on my television screen. It was so bizarre my sleep paralysis demon decided to take the night off.

STUNNING

en toda la pelicula , Jessica Holland es el personaje mas enigmatico , no sabemos mucho sobre ella solo x opiniones de otros y si fue una villana x su egoismo ò una victima x los celos de MRS Holland la madre

Beautiful

Vaudou is a fascinating religion -- a syncretic fusion of West African animism with the Christianity that slaves were exposed to in the Caribbean sugar islands. Contrary to a popular misconception, it is a religion of peace, not vengeful black magic. (The evil that sets the plot in motion in this movie is that of the selfish hedonist Jessica Holland -- everyone else's actions are in reaction to hers). As a Christian, I believe that God hears any and all people who seek Him with open hearts -- as Betsy, Mrs. Holland and the black community all do in their own ways in this unique film. I would very much like to know whether the vaudou rituals shown in "I Walked With A Zombie" are accurate representations, or simply theatricalized versions. Either way, they are entrancing.

Great movie, especially this song, I wonder what the translation is.

I am a Christian, and I firmly believe that there are many avenues to God, as long as the heart and soul are truly seeking Him. Why should the singing and dancing shown in this scene not be a perfectly valid form of worship? (And yes, I am well aware that this is a popular-culture version of vaudou, rather than the real thing; I'm making a general point). Many of the saints venerated in vaudou are the same as those in Catholicism; the fact that vaudou is a syncretic fusion of West African religion with Christianity is no more odd than the marriage of Second Temple Judaism with Greek religious ideas that produced Christianity. "In my Father's house, there are many mansions", Jesus said; there would have to be, to accommodate a race as diverse as ours. In the film, Betsy brings Jessica to the houmfort for as godly a purpose as one can imagine: she not only wants to cure a sick woman, but to restore her to her husband, whom she (mistakenly) believes still loves her, even though she loves him herself. That kind of selfless love is DEFINITELY an expression of God's grace, as are Mrs. Holland's efforts to help the island people. "I Walked With A Zombie" is a deeply moving tragedy, where even good actions have unintended, and terrible, consequences. Kudos to Val Lewton!

It's "houmfort."