In line of previous Jacques Tourneur's Cat People this one is a follow up in same direction,bringing the spooky atmosphere at West Indians island where slavery takes place at this period of time,the black people took their mysticism with them as voodoo,the epic night scene through cane field under the moonlight is quite fantastic when they meet the black man Carrefour,stunning story which has a minor fail,is too short,could be more developed to expand the whole thing,even so deserves a look to all moviefan who likes this genre!!Resume:First watch: 2018 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7.5

I often wonder what war-time audiences of the forties thought after leaving "...Zombie". Who could have been prepared for what lay behind the penny-dreadful title, surely one of the most poetic renderings of horror in genre history. Books have been written about its creator Val Lewton, and deservedly so. But what's on screen is traceable to the unerring pictorialism of director Jacques Tourneur, and his mastery of the fluid camera. Forget the plot and dialogue, too much of which is half-baked philosophizing, and the performances which, excepting Sir Lancelot's lovely sing-song, are largely secondary. Focus instead on the lyrical scenes that unfold like a shadowy dream as the camera pulls back to reveal the poetic beauty of atmosphere. This is the perfect antidote for viewers max'ed out on the over-FXed, overly literal staple of today. "Zombie" shows that Tourneur grasped what Lewton and Hitchcock already knew - that the greatest fright repository is your own imagination.

Hoping to get away from a stressful relationship, a nurse takes a job looking after a bedridden millionaire in Haiti, but when she starts to stay there longer, the more she finds the entire situation encased in a series of voodoo-driven rites and ceremonies intended to ward off her employer.Overall this one was quite enjoyable if slightly flawed effort. One of the main things holding this one back is the film's utterly bland and snail-like pacing, which is the common factor found in these types of films. There's so many scenes here in the first half that do nothing overall and are really just there to make the film seem like an appropriate length before it ends since so little of the film actually comes off as scary. Since so many of these scenes are filled with her initial arrival and meeting with the two brothers who are engaged in their own mini-squabble over the afflicted wife's treatment, these scenes are in general quite dull and bland which simply hold off the main horror sections of the film to rather isolated section in the second half as it has to get through dry, dull sections up front. As well, the decision for including the plot-point of his brothers' drinking problems are completely unnecessary as they just make the film that much longer and are not that interesting having it play out, and really sets the stage for usually-talkative explanation sequence which doesn't really go anywhere here. The only other flaw here is the completely inane reasoning given for them being targeted, as it really makes no sense and goes against what she tells them later on which should've protected them instead and it seems somewhat odd as an explanation.Though these issues here hold this one back, it does have some positive elements at work here. One of the better features here is the fact that there's some rather creepy and chilling work done on the inclusion of the voodoo rituals at the compound which are some of the films' most chilling moments. Starting with the deeply-rousing tribal drumming that's heard coming from deep in the jungle sounding like they're all around them, and it really starts in on that driving feel where the otherworldly feel and chilling-by-association nature makes this quite creepy while starting the other big voodoo-led activities. From the insanely chilling walk-through of the sugarcane fields with the zombified woman in the moonlight while the effectively eerie drumming comes into play during the darting shots of them amongst the towering plants, the absolutely creepy first encounter with the zombie and then encountering the rather thrilling ceremony that takes place at their camp. Other fun scenes include the absolutely wild and crazy retrieval scenes where they attempt to bring her back to camp in her zombie-like state several times, especially since the later one turns into the outrageously fun finale that takes place across the island, finally leading into the sea for a fantastic finish to this one. Alongside the rather well-done atmosphere from the film, these here really work nicely for this one.Today's Rating/PG: Mild Violence.

Well the original meaning of a zombie is not a dead creature that is brought back to life or became a flesh eating monster due to a virus as in today's tales, but is it is a human that has no more will of his own and is directed by witchcraft in this case voodoo. That is what we see with the blonde lady and also the black guard with his big eyes. Well the voodoo scenes are done really well and that is why I pass this movie. However it falls pretty flat in story and characters. None of them is remarkable and the dramatic story with relationship intrigues is just as uninteresting as the standard soap opera. Besides there is too many characters involved which made the whole pretty tedious to watch. The location was nice though.