FilmWitchcraft & Occult Psychological Folk Horror

Weird Woman1944

Name: Weird Woman
Genre: Witchcraft & Occult, Psychological, Folk Horror
Released: 1944-03-01
Rating: 6.3

“WEAVING HER WEIRD DEAD SPELL OF VOODOO!”

Directed by Reginald Le Borg

6.3

Crypt Score

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IMDb 6.2TMDB 6.0

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Year

1944

Runtime

64 min

The premise

After bringing his beautiful new wife Paula home to America from a remote island on which she was raised, Professor Norman Reed begins to feel the clash between his world of rational science and hers of bizarre dancing and freaky voodoo rituals. Norman's stuck-up friends also sense Paula's strangeness, and soon their meddling gossip and suspicious scheming push the poor woman to use her magic to defend herself and her husband – and maybe even to kill! Or is it just the power of suggestion...?

Horror Vault's take

When Professor Norman Reed returns from a remote tropical island with a new bride steeped in voodoo tradition, his orderly academic world begins to unravel. Paula is an outsider in every sense, and the small-minded scheming of those around her forces the question of whether her island beliefs carry genuine power — or whether rumour and suggestion are deadly enough on their own. This lean, atmospheric Inner Sanctum entry keeps viewers guessing about the boundary between the supernatural and the psychological right up to the final reel.

Content: Suicide, Mild Peril, Themes Of Psychological Manipulation