'I Walked With A Zombie'

Interestingly, this film was developed from the title. Has this every happened? How hard would that be.

If you started with There Will Be Blood, how do you write a story about an oil tycoon? I guess it's a matter of an earlier age when you didn't necessarily make titles cute or thought provoking. You named a movie after the book or whatever the movie is about.

These days we have to be cute or edgy. Like Maid in Manhattan. It's about a maid.

Ironically, I Walked With A Zombie isn't about zombies in the traditional sense and since this was probably the first ever zombie movie, it's also ironic that the "traditional" connotation of a zombie is not based on the original, pop culture reference.

The "zombie" in the film is actually a catatonic woman, who may or may not be dead (and thus, may or may not be a zombie ... as zombies are dead) or may or may not be being voodooed by the local African slaves.

I actually don't know if this is every really cleared up. I mean, the story gets really convoluted as things take place and the writing is so bad that by the end, you really don't know what happened. Other than the non-zombie dying. Now she can be a real zombie.