April 8, 2023

This Day in Halloween: The Val Lewton/Jacques Tourneur low-budget film "I Walked With A Zombie" premieres in Cleveland in 1943. / Illustration by Atlas Gutierrez

I Walked With A Zombie premieres in Cleveland in 1943.  The Val Lewton/Jacques Tourneur low-budget film that is partly a retelling of Jane Eyre with voodoo zombies, gets mixed reviews and is a mild box office success on its release but has grown in stature over the decades.