Cat People & I Walked With a Zombie

Join The Readers in the Rue Morgue Film Club for a double bill of Val Lewton’s influential 40s horror movies, Cat People & I Walked With a Zombie.

Cat People (1942)

Irena Dubrovna (Simone Simon), a New York City–based fashion designer who hails from Serbia, begins a romance with marine engineer Oliver Reed (Kent Smith). After the couple gets married, Oliver becomes concerned about Irena’s notion that she is cursed and may transform into a large cat in the heat of passion. Confiding in his beautiful assistant, Alice Moore (Jane Randolph), about his marital issues, Oliver unwittingly triggers Irena’s curse, with tragic results.

I walked With A Zombie (1943)

Canadian nurse Betsey Connell (Frances Dee) is hired to care for Jessica Holland (Christine Gordon), a woman on a Caribbean sugar plantation, who has a bizarre condition. The mysterious affliction baffles Betsy but when she falls for Jessica’s husband, Paul (Tom Conway), she is determined to make him happy by curing his wife. However, in her quest, Betsey is drawn into the island’s dark culture of voodoo and zombies and begins to uncover the Holland family’s sinister secrets.

Tickets are £5 and all proceeds will go to our chosen charity, Rosie’s Trust