I Walked with a Zombie
Cinema is a screen onto which we can project our fears, torments and the monstrosities of the world. The screen protects us from what we see, but cinema has also permanently anchored our nightmares around a few powerful images (empty houses, hostile attics and basements, demonic masks, bloodcurdling grimaces, disturbing postures). Throughout the summer, the Cinémathèque québécoise will be presenting a series of films encompassing more than one hundred and twenty years of horror, reminding us that what scares us most is to make the deepest of our fears tangible and credible.
One of the films in Tourneur's famous fantasy trilogy. Betsy, a young nurse, is hired to treat the wife of Paul Holland, a wealthy farmer with whom she falls in love. When she arrives on the island of San Sebastian, she discovers that her patient is suffering from a mysterious illness that plunges her into a kind of hypnotic sleep.
Jacques Tourneur
Jacques Tourneur was a French film director known for the classic film noir Out of the Past and a series of low-budget horror films he made for RKO Studios, including Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie, and The Leopard Man. He is also known for directing Night of the Demon, which was released by Columbia Pictures.
