I Walked with a Zombie

Nurse Betsy Conwell takes up a position on the West Indies island of St Sebastian tending Jessica, the wife of plantation owner Paul Holland, whose mind has been burnt out by a tropical disease. But Betsy comes to fall in love with the melancholy Paul and seeks to help him by finding a cure for Jessica. Believing that the native witch doctors might be able to help, she one night leads Jessica through the plantations to a voodoo ritual. But afterwards the natives become obsessed with Jessica and try to lead her back to them by voodoo. And Betsy comes to realize that Jessica’s condition might not be a disease, but instead actually caused by voodoo.