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Back from the Dead

Back from the Dead

5,1 /10 (17 Votes)
1957 EN 79 min

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.

Release date

12/08/1957

Votes

17

Popularity

1.1

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

Genres

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

79 min

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2025-08-17

⭐ 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 w…

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