I walked with a zombie [DVD video] ; The seventh victim

Terror lives in the shadows in a pair of mesmerizingly moody horror milestones conjured from the imagination of Val Lewton, the visionary producer-auteur who turned our fears of the unseen and the unknown into haunting excursions into existential dread. As head of RKO's B-horror-movie unit during the 1940s, Lewton brought a new sophistication to the genre by wringing chills not from conventional movie monsters but from brooding atmosphere, suggestion, and psychosexual unease.

General Note:

Released as motion pictures in 1943.

"I walked with a zombie" based on an original short story by Inez Wallace.

Special edition features: audio commentary on "I walked with a zombie" featuring authors Kim Newman and Stephen Jones ; audio commentary on "The seventh victim" featuring film historian Steve Haberman ; interview with film historian Imogen Sara Smith ; audio essays from Adam Roche's podcast "The secret history of Hollywood" featuring stories about both films ; "Shadows in the dark, the Val Lewton legacy" (2005) a documentary ; excerpts from "The origins of the zombie, from Haiti to the U. S., an episode of the PBS series "Monstrum" hosted by scholar Emily Zarka ; trailiers ; essays by critics Chris Fujiwara and Lucy Sante.

Performers:

I walked with a zombie: Frances Dee, James Ellison, Tom Conway.

Seventh victim: Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell.

Contents:

I walked with a zombie / directed by Jacques Tourneur ; screenplay by Curt Siodmak, Ardel Wray ; based on an original story by Inez Wallace (69 min.) -- The seventh victim / directed by Mark Robson ; written by Charles O'Neal, DeWitt Bodeen (71 min.).

Technical Details:

DVD, 1.37:1 (fullscreen) ; Dolby mono; region 1.

Accessibility Note:

Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

Subject Term:

Zombies -- Drama.

Vodou -- Drama.

Satanism -- Drama.

Missing persons -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.

Horror films.