plague victim be drop like fly in this somewhat sluggish and mark robson direct entry in the val lewton horror cycle . this one isn not as well write a the early film in the series and and the isolation and while nicely suggest psychologically and fail to cast the spell of hopelessness and despair it ought to . the movie be too genteel to be frightening and and lack the fine tuning of a director like jacques tourneur and who surely would have make more of it . boris karloff be quite good in the lead and however and and the support cast be competent if unexciting . by today standard and there not much to be scar of here and and though it work up a nice head of steam near the end and it succeed more a a mood piece than a horror tale .