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Carrefour

FilmUndeadShambles1900 to 1967

Carrefour is the silent zombie who guards the crossroads in Val Lewton and Jacques Tourneur's film. The film leaves open whether its zombies are the work of a houngan or of illness. Stylus Magazine ranked it the fifth-best zombie film of all time, and scholars read Carrefour as an image tied to slavery.1

⚔️ Battle it
First appeared
1943
Released 1943
Source work
I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
Jacques Tourneur (producer Val Lewton)
Made in
USA
What causes it
Never explained
Carrefour's origin is never given; the film's other zombie, Jessica, is explained either by a fever that damaged her spinal cord or by a houngan's work.
How it moves
Shambles
He guards a crossroads and follows his target at a slow walk.

When did it first appear?

Ancient world
Middle Ages
1500 to 1899
1900 to 1967
1968 to 1999
2000 to 2009
2010 to today
1943

Released 1943

field notes

What the sources say

1

Played by Darby Jones1

2

The film borrows its structure from Jane Eyre and its title from a magazine article by Inez Wallace1

3

Jessica does not bleed when she is stabbed during a ceremony1

4

Insulin shock treatment and a houngan's healing both fail to restore her1

5

Scholars read Carrefour as an image of slavery and racial violence1

6

Shot in under four weeks in late 19421

Could you outrun it?

Speed class from how the sources describe it (shambles), not a measurement.

Carrefour about 3 km/h
You, walking about 5 km/h
You, jogging about 10 km/h
A fit adult sprinting about 24 km/h
A fast cyclist about 37 km/h

Sources

  1. I Walked with a Zombie - Wikipedia

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Same era: 1900 to 1967

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