7. I Walked With A Zombie (Jacques Tourneur 1943)
A Canadian nurse named Betsy is hired to care for Jessica Holland, the wife of a sugar plantation owner, Paul Holland, on the Caribbean island of Saint Sebastian. While on the island eerie things begin to happen, like Betsy sees a woman in white walking the hallways, who was probably Jessica. But Jessica had a spinal cord injury and cannot do anything by herself. Later, Paul and Betsy set out to either cure or kill Jessica and enlist the help of a Voodoo priest in order to do this. In the process they discover that Jessica just might be a zombie. This classic film only has one person who might or might not be a zombie and the mystery unfolds from there. There is no outbreak or infections, just a plain old fashioned Voodoo curse. The movie is famous for its eerie atmosphere that feels more like a ghost story than a zombie movie.