Product Details

• Actors: John Loder, Nancy Kelly, Otto Kruger, Ruth Ford, Harry Tyler
• Directors: Walter Colmes
• Writers: Dennis J. Cooper, John H. Kafka, Lee Willis, Philip Yordan
• Producers: Walter Colmes
• Format: Black & White, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Image Entertainment
• VHS Release Date: September 28, 1999
• Run Time: 68 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00000JT9N
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #229,040 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Romantic supernatural thriller for nostalgia buffs., May 16, 2007

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J. Arena (Williamsburg, VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Woman Who Came Back (DVD)

This is a wonderfully atmospheric "horror" movie. All the supernatural stuff is explained away at the end, but there is a great deal of over-the-top acting, shadowy backgrounds and enough tension generated by mere suggestion to make it a fun movie. (You just gotta love that maid!)

I purchased this DVD sight unseen, merely because of the other great reviews. I was not disappointed! The Woman Who Came Back is just the kind of film that held me mesmerized as a kid when ALL the movies on TV were B&W and really, really old!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not a Lewton but worth the Shootin', August 31, 2008

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Timothy Anderson "tbatoday" (Princeton, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Woman Who Came Back [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Saw this for the first time recently. Not bad, but not a Lewton. I became interested in the work of Lewton after the recent TCM festival of his work. Thought this film lacks the serious talent of Lewton, but it can be said to be "Lewtonesque." And this may have been deliberate by the film maker. As far as the plausibility of the story...well, in fact, the very thing happened to me recently when I visited my old hometown in California. Only I was not possessed by the spirit of a witch but it turned out to be my kindergarten teacher...who was probably a witch.

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4.0 out of 5 stars It's Not Val Lewton But It'll Do., July 30, 2006

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Andrew Mangravite - See all my reviews
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This film has the misfortune of being constantly likened to a Val Lewton film and, as such, ends up disappointing first-time viewers. It's not a Lewton film. It doesn't have the literate tone of a Lewton production, nor does it have the subtlety of a Lewton film. What it is is an imaginative "B" movie that generates a few supernatural frissons enroute to being explained away in a thouroughly rationalistic finale. It's also a pretty good study of small-town prejudices and mass hysteria at work. "The Woman Who Came Back" works best as a sociological document whereasthe Lewton's work best as "filmed literature."