I Walked with a Zombie
dir. Jacques Tourneur · 1943
A young Canadian nurse arrives in the West Indies to care for Jessica, a woman trapped in a state of mental paralysis. As Betsy becomes entwined in the lives of the plantation's inhabitants, she confronts the eerie undercurrents of love, duty, and the supernatural. Watching this film is like stepping into a haunting dream where the boundaries between reality and the mystical blur, leaving you with an unsettling sense of longing and dread.
Young Canadian nurse Betsy comes to the West Indies to care for Jessica, the wife of a plantation manager Paul Holland. Jessica seems to be suffering from a kind of mental paralysis as a result of fever. When she falls in love with Paul, Betsy determines to cure Jessica even if she needs to use a voodoo ceremony, to give Paul what she thinks he wants.
