This tasteless, stupid title conceals one of the most athmospheric and charming black&white thrillers in cinema history. Producer Val Lewton had no large budget, no time, no stars. He got the material up to the highest level, filling it with visual poetics and classical literature allusions (the film itself is actually caribbean variation on Jane Eyre). Jacques Tourneur was the most talented director of Lewton's crew. He could create suspense of only athmosphere: sinister shadows and nerving sounds turned out to be more effective than fake monsters. This picture proved that Tourneur was one of unsurpassed masters of night episodes: somnambulistic walking of Holland's wife in the garden, famous way of Betsy and Jessica through reeds and, of course, final scene on the coast of luminescent sea. Lewton, Tourneur and cinematographer J. Roy Hunt created almost absolute perfect movie in genre "poetic nightmare". 9/10