The Woman Who Came Back

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The Woman Who Came Back (1945)

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After a bus accident, a woman comes to believe that she's actually a 300-year-old witch.

Movie|PG|1 hr. 08 min.|

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Title	The Woman Who Came Back (1945)
Runtime	1 hr. 08 min.
Studio	Starz
Genres	Classics \| Drama
Description	An old woman flags down a bus in woods near Eden Rock, Massachusetts. She sits next to Lorna Webster, who's coming home after being away two years. The old woman calls Lorna by name, prattles on about events in the village 300 years ago when women were burned at the stake for witchcraft at trials convened by Lorna's ancestor, and the bus veers off the road into a lake. Only Lorna survives; the woman is missing. In town, Lorna's former fiancé, Matt Adams, is the only person glad to see her. Strange things begin to happen, and Lorna and many villagers begin to think she's possessed. Is she? Will fears drive Lorna mad and the town to a frenzy? Is an old prophecy about to be fulfilled?

6 months ago

Many women in that era were treated like hysterical children, and given shock treatments to calm them down. My mother was a victim of this widespread form of misogyny, and I, in turn, became a victim of her erratic behavior, causing me to hate women, especially those who looked like my mother, until I got a grip on reality. Shock treatments are still being given. The "therapy" is not outmoded, but used regularly. My mother now has severe dementia, the very condition the doctors said they were curing when they "treated" her.

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8 months ago

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Slow-paced. Dramatic music during dialogue is distracting. I liked the sermon towards the end, but there's a lot of rough edges, like how the mother of the girl associate's the tiny bell sound with danger. It's watchable, but, at best, this was a B-movie. There's some great old horror movies on hulu, but this one is only so-so.

8 months ago

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8 months ago

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Why was she riding the bus? Was it gasoline rationing? (Ha, ha)

She lives in a mansion, with gilt-frame paintings. Sleeps in a fur-silk combo.

8 months ago

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That's a pretty crazy cliffside for not too far north of Boston. At first, I was thinking: well, possibly the coast of Maine. But then they said lake.

8 months ago

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I couldn't really identify with the characters; too outdated & over dramatic.

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Interesting story line that held together well. Difficult to watch based on today's standards of how men and women behave towards one another. Lorna is treated like an hysterical child and actually, to some extent, she behaves likes one. Her former fiance, a doctor, simply picks up the relationship as if she had not been gone for 2 years. When he says, "I am going to take such good care of you", he means it in a kindly, loving way. However, 66 years later, it just feels creepy.

I would love to see this remade as a comedy with someone like Sandra Bullock. Updated and reworked, it could really be a great film.

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