“Despite problems with his star, Merle Oberon, Andre de Toth manages to create a superb suspense thriller in Dark Waters. The director takes the vaguely sinister locale of an old sugar plantation in the New
Orleans bayou country, and makes it increasingly terrifying and sinister for both his heroine and the audience through the use of shadows, mood lighting, and the strange sounds of the Louisiana night. De Toth is aided and abetted by a fine supporting cast, including Thomas Mitchell as the most disturbing of house guests, Elisha Cook, Jr., as the most insinuating of plantation overseers, and Rex Ingram as the Black worker who assures Merle Oberon that he also hears those voices.” Anthony Slide