Back from the Dead

Watch: Back from the Dead

8/12/19571h 19m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ Did she come back to LOVE or KILL? His First Wife In His Second Wife's Body! ~

Overview:

A woman is possessed by the spirt of her husband's deceased first wife, turning her into a cold, scheming flirt who will stop at nothing to get what she wants. The woman's sister, husband and the sister's new boyfriend struggle with accepting what has happened, who has caused it and how to correct it, which soon brings them into contact with a coven of devil-worshippers and forces of the supernatural.

Director:

Charles Marquis Warren

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

suicide
pregnancy
possession
miscarriage
satanic cult

Cast

Peggie Castle

~ as ~

Mandy Hazelton Anthony

Marsha Hunt

~ as ~

Kate Hazelton

Arthur Franz

~ as ~

Dick Anthony

Don Haggerty

~ as ~

John Mitchell

Helen Wallace

~ as ~

Ada Bradley

Otto Reichow

~ as ~

Maitre Renault

James Bell

~ as ~

Mr. Bradley

Marianne Stewart

~ as ~

Nancy Cordell

Evelyn Scott

~ as ~

Molly Prentiss

Ned Glass

~ as ~

The Doctor

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 4 month(s) ago
6
There are shades of Noël Coward in this clever little mystery, and though the cast are all a bit wooden, it’s not a bad low-budget effort. We start with a distracted “Miranda” (Peggie Castle) who is distressing her new husband “Dick” (Arthur Franz) by going into hysterics, a coma, then emerging claiming her name is “Felicia”. Her sister “Kate” (Marsha Hunt) is even more bemused when she learns that was the name of his late wife. Is she just over-stressed or might she actually be being possessed by the returning spirit of the deceased woman whose death saw her fall from a cliff into the murky waters beneath. It turns out that the mother of “Felicia” is adept in the dark arts and so she (Helen Wallace) is all too willing to accept the story, but her husband (James Bell) is much more sceptical. Seeking clarity, they send for “Renault” (Otto Reichow) who lives locally and might have a solution to this messy psychological conundrum - though he’s clearly not a man to be trusted, either! What is going on? With the scene set, this plays out quite intriguingly for a time and had the cast just been a little more robust, it could have been quite a bit better. The leading roles are pretty much all disappointingly underplayed: Reichow sounds like he could have a future career as Arnold Schwarzenegger’s dialogue coach; and the standard of the production isn’t really up to much with scenes clearly shot against backdrop cinematographers that aren’t always as well synched as they might have been. It’s still quite an exciting watch, though, and with a soundtrack straight out of the “Outer Limits” and even a secret doorway, it’s not too bad at all.