While this film about a nurse sent to take care of a woman with zombie like symptoms after a fever damaged her spinal cord does not have Bels Lugosi to give a fantastic performance, it does have Frances Lee as the nurse and was produced by "Cat people" Val Newton. Somehow, Lee doesn't get top billing despite being the lead and the strongest performer. I had forgotten how fearless her character is on trying to help the mysterious woman in her charge. She doesn't flinch in situations I think all of the male characters would have run screaming from.
The lower budget in this is made moot by a really interesting story that never really says if the voodoo depicted is real magic or not, even though it is strongly hinted there is something supernatural going. There is a scene where a practitioner is pulling a doll made to look like the stricken woman on a string while almost preforming a sort of dance. It's hard to describe but i have seen similar in real ceremonies. It is a very effective scene.
I won't go too much into the plot as it's fair to say it's better to watch this unspoiled. I will warn the ending isn't exactly a happy one and a little shocking they went there.
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