Isle of the Dead (Mark Robson; 1945)
Boris Karloff plays a Greek general who gets trapped with a group of civilians on an island infected with a plague. As Karloff attempts to keep everyone safe and healthy, he slowly goes mad due to the influence of some crazy old woman who believes the young woman Thea to be a demon known as a vorvolaka. Isle of the Dead deals with a (perhaps made up and exploitative) conflict of faith within the Greek people, whose ancient mythology is so easily disproven. A fascinating, very literary, horror film about the suggestion of the supernatural.
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