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I Walked with a Zombie (1943)

★ 6.8 · 335 ratings on TMDB

She's alive…yet dead! She's dead…yet alive!

I Walked with a Zombie poster★ 6.8

A nurse in the Caribbean turns to voodoo in hopes of curing her patient, a mindless woman whose husband she's fallen in love with.

DirectorJacques Tourneur
CastChristine Gordon, Darby Jones, Edith Barrett, Frances Dee, James Bell, James Ellison
GenresDrama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
The emergence reading

I Walked with a Zombie keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, colonialism, religion, mortality.

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Also inFilms about mortalityFilms about prejudice
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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)E11/E13 · rare rung · colonialism, prejudiceDune (1984)E11/E12 · rare rung · colonialism, religion

Same people

Shared director or cast.

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