Release date: 1943
Type: Horror
Rating:
4/5 Colour: Black & White
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Producer: Val Lewton
Comment
Frances Dee is a Canadian nurse who accepts a job looking after the wife of Paul Holland who runs a plantation on an island in the West Indies. The wife has a mental illness that has left her in a zombie like state. When Frances Dee takes her to a vodoo ceramony she sets in motion a set of events that leads to tragic consequenses. In this film Jacques Tourneur and Val Lewton produced a horror film that is built on suspense and atmosphere and not shock and gore.
Actors
Frances Dee
Tom Conway
Oscars
None