Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

***SPOILERS*** Escaping from the Japanese held island of Batavia Leslie Calvin's, Merle Oberon, passenger ship was torpedoed off the island of Madagascar with all on board, including her parents, lost under the waves of the Indian Ocean and her and only three other persons surviving the carnage. Now in a New Orleans hospital ward Leslie gets the word from the doctor, Alan Napier, the good news in that her relatives in the bayou swamps of Belleville Louisiana Aunt Emily and Uncle Norbert, Fay Bainter & John Qualen, want to welcome her home there to recover from her terrible ordeal. As it turned out both Aunt Emily and Uncle Norbert were not the masters of their own home. It was the creepy manager Mr. Sydney, Thomas Mitchell, who in fact was in control of the place and the two were only there for his both personal and financial interests. There was also Mr. Sidney's assistant Cleeve played by Elisha Cook Jr in a rare romantic, if you can call it that, role who developed the hots for the very demurer and sensitive Louise and made no bones in hiding his feelings about her.It's when the handsome kind and understanding country doctor George Grover,Franchot Tone, came on the scene to treat the emotionally wrecked, due to her experience at sea, Leslie that things started to get a bit wild in the bayou in that Mr. Sydney started to lose it in seeing that the good doctor was about to uncover his attempt to drive Leslie insane and even to the brink of suicide. With her thinking, due to Mr. Sydney's sleazy tactics, she's going insane Leslie is saved from a nervous breakdown by former handyman, who was fired from his job by Mr. Sydney, Person Jackson, Rex Ingram, who's been snooping around the premises ever since and sleeping in the swamps, as well as catching and eating crew-fish, since his involuntary departure from the place.It's Preston who filled Lousie in to what was really going on and in the end paid for it with his life.***SPOILERS*** Dr.Grover who had since fell in love with his patient Leslie Calvin then went out of his way to save her life from the evil Mr. Sydney and his henchman the hopped up, on testosterone, and sexually starved Cleeve but almost got himself killed in doing it. Using the divide and conquer technique Dr. Grover gets the two, Mr. Sydney & Cleeve, to turn against each other thus doing the work, dirty & deadly work, for him. With Louise now knowing that she in fact wasn't going insane she now was going to tie the knot with her handsome and knight in shining amour and stethoscope Dr. Grover who saved her from the terrible situation that she found herself in.

I'll just get right to the spoilers.First off we know right from the beginning that the aunt and uncle at the bayou estate aren't her real relatives. This was too easy to figure out. De Toth didn't set it up well enough to make us believe any way else.Second, you know if Elijah Cook Jr. is in the film, he's up to no good. Seein' that he knows all the people in the house and they vouch for him, it was safe to assume that they were all in whatever they were up to.Third...Seeing that the first shot in the film you see is "oil man" and wife drown in submarine accident but the daughter survives. This wasn't to hard to figure out why the fake relatives were at the country estate. MONEY!!!! this is hardly a film-noir. A suspense/drama/thriller..yes. For me, this film wasn't anything to write home about, but at least I can say..." I saw it".

I've seen Dark Waters a couple of times and found it very creepy.A young woman who was shipwrecked goes to stay with her aunt and uncle at their mansion deep in the Bayou to recover from her ordeal. The swamps near to the mansion are suppose to be haunted and it isn't long before strange things start happening including strange voices and lights going on and off on their own. She then discovers these people are not her relations but impostors who want her dead and her late family's money. With the help of her doctor, with whom she falls in love with, they try to stop these impostors.Dark Waters is shot well in black and white, which makes it very atmospheric and creepy.The cast includes Merle Oberon, Franchot Tone, Fay Bainter and Elisha Cook Jr. (The House On Haunted Hill).This movie is worth watching if you get the chance. Very creepy at times.Rating: 3 and a half stars out of 5.

A shipwreck survivor, trying to re-cooperate from a horrible experience, visits her relatives in the bayou. While there, she begins to see & hear things that make her question her sanity. Along with the help of a doctor, she begins to investigate all the weird goings on at her family estate. For those of you that have seen this genre before, you won't be disappointed. Oberon does a good job here. I've seen her in so many period pieces that this film was a breath of fresh air for me. Also, Thomas Mitchell plays her uncle. You may remember him from "Gone with the Wind". His character is a very ruthless man. So ruthless, he'll stop at nothing to get the result he wants. The contrast between his character & Oberon's are very disturbing & fun to watch.This film is full of suspense & will leave you guessing as to if our heroine will get out of this one.Watch & see...