Woman Who Came Back (1945)

A woman (Nancy Kelly) returns to the small town in Massachusetts where she had jilted her fiance (John Loder) two years earlier. But when strange things occur upon her return, the townspeople accuse her of being a witch. Directed by Walter Colmes (THE FRENCH KEY), this low budget B psychological horror film is a knock off of the superior CAT PEOPLE (1942). Instead of believing she is a descendent of cat people, Nancy Kelly's heroine believes she is possessed by the spirit of a 300 year old vengeful witch. There's even a scene where her fiance's sister (Ruth Ford) is walking home when suddenly an irrational fear develops that she is being followed by something deadly, a ripoff of a similar scene where Jane Randolph is walking in CAT PEOPLE. It's not very good but given its low budget status, I suppose it overcomes it in some ways like the skillful B&W cinematography of Henry Sharp (MINISTRY OF FEAR) which gives the impression of a film with higher production values. With Otto Kruger and Elspeth Dudgeon.