I Walked With A Zombie by Wednesday 13

Album: Transylvania 90210 (2005)

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This song was inspired by the 1943 movie I Walked With A Zombie, which is a favorite of Wednesday 13's. Explaining how the song came to him, Wednesday told us: "I was reading about it in a book, and I was just looking through this book and I was playing guitar. Somehow I just started singing what I was reading, and it just turned into that song. It turned out to be so catchy, and I did a demo of it immediately. I went, 'Whoa, this is like super horror pop punk,' or whatever you want to call it."

The song roughly follows the story of the film, which is about a woman who has entered some kind of trance-like state. Her caretaker brings her to a remote island, where a voodoo priest attempts a cure.
Wednesday 13 (real name: Joseph Poole) was ahead of the Zombie trend, releasing this song a few years before the hit TV series Walking Dead and the movie Zombieland. The first Wednesday 13 video was for this song, and it featured the band integrated into a horror film.

Comments: 8

The Explosives Fan from Austin Texasthis song was written by Roky Erickson why on earth is Wednesday 13 pretending to have written it??
Sara from None, United StatesI hope it didnt post already... Anyway this song is actually based off of the 1943 horror film: I Walked With A Zombie.
While the video is in Night Of The Living Dead, read an overview of the movie, and it will make much more sense with the other film.
Axl from Skegness, EnglandThis song is great Wednesday 13 is a great song writter and musican, i would highly recomend checkin out alot more of his stuff try his earlier songs when he was in the frankenstein drag queens
Joel from Columbia, ScInteresting song. My friend Ryan was playing this one day. It kinda freaked me out. Good song to blast at a Halloween party or two.
Nicole from Johnson City, TnThis is song is definaitly one of the best.I love anything relating to old Zombie movies & I am glad to see that someone like Wednesday 13 is the same way.
Brittney from Newman, CaSong: AWESOME!!!!
Wednesday: definately hot!!
Crystal from Stockton, CaThis song is really cool, if you hav'nt checked out the video yet, then i suggest you do it because it is sooooooooo awesome....just go to Wednesday13.com
Kelsie from Reno, NvThis song is really cool I love this bands songs thry r like reflecting on like horror movie scenes and songs about death,dying,and the dead

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