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I Walked with a Zombie / The Seventh Victim: Produced by Val Lewton

Edition no. 1236

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Release Date: Tuesday, 08 October 2024
Country of Release: USA
MSRP: $29.95

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I Walked with a Zombie | The Seventh Victim

Licensor Information

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment

Directed by: Jacques Tourneur, Mark Robson

Featuring: Frances Dee, Kim Hunter, Tom Conway, James Ellison, Jean Brooks, Edith Barrett, Isabel Jewell, James Bell, Evelyn Brent, Christine Gordon, Erford Gage, Ben Bard, Hugh Beaumont

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, working with directors such as Jacques Tourneur and Mark Robson, brought a new sophistication to the genre by wringing chills not from conventional movie monsters but from brooding atmosphere, suggestion, and psychosexual unease. Suffused with ritual, mysticism, and the occult, the poetically hypnotic I Walked with a Zombie and the shockingly subversive The Seventh Victim are still-tantalizing dreams of death that dare to embrace the darkness.

Year: 1943
Time: 69 min.

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I Walked with a Zombie

Year: 1943

Time: 69

Aspect Ratios

1.37:1

Audio

English Dolby Digital Mono 1.0

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The Seventh Victim

Year: 1943

Time: 71

Aspect Ratios

1.37:1

Audio

English Dolby Digital Mono 1.0

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Technical Specifications

Format:

DVD

Discs:

DVD-9 (2 Discs)

Total: 2 Discs

Regions:

1 (DVD)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37:1

Audio Options:

English Dolby Digital Mono 1.0

Resolution:

480p/29.97

Subtitles:

English

Supplements

Types of Supplements Included: Audio Commentary, Documentary, Theatrical Trailer, Interview, Podcast, Insert, Featurette

Commentary for I Walk with a Zombie by Kim Newman and Stephen Jones
Commentary by Historian Steve Haberman
Interview with film critic and historian Imogen Sara Smith
Audio essays from Adam Roche’s podcast The Secret History of Hollywood
Documentary Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy
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
Theatrical Trailer for I Walk with a Zombie
Theatrical Trailer
Essays by critics Chris Fujiwara and Lucy Sante

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Restoration Information

I Walked with a Zombie

Restoration by:

The Criterion Collection

Year: 2024

Scanned at: 4K Digital

Restored at: 4K Digital

Sources:

35mm Original camera negative

The Seventh Victim

Restoration by:

The Criterion Collection

Year: 2024

Scanned at: 4K Digital

Restored at: 4K Digital

Sources:

35mm Original cut negative

Release Notes on Restoration

I Walked with a Zombie and The Seventh Victim are presented in the aspect ratio of 1.37:1. These new 4K restorations were created from the 35 mm nitrate original camera negatives. The negative of The Seventh Victim had large amounts of mold throughout. Digital restoration helped mitigate the damage, but there is still some mold residue present in the picture. The original monaural soundtracks were remastered from a 35 mm safety composite fine-grain for I Walked with a Zombie and a 35 mm original soundtrack positive for The Seventh Victim.