I Walked with a Zombie / The Body Snatcher (1943)

A 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.

cast: James Ellison, Frances Dee, Tom Conway, Edith Barrett

69 minutes, B&W, 1943

Commentary by Film Historians Kim Newman and Steve Jones on I Walked with a Zombie

The Body Snatcher (1945), an atmospheric Robert Louis Stevenson adaptation that invokes the grisly history of graverobbers Burke and Hare, and supplies a together-again-for-the-last-time occasion for Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi

Commentary by Director Robert Wise with film historian Steve Haberman on The Body Snatcher