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Conqueror Worm (1968)
This underrated film deserves a look on video. Vincent Price plays Matthew Hopkins, a real-life witch hunter who travels from town to town in Puritan England, seeking confessions from alleged witches. When one of his henchmen (Robert Russell) rapes the niece of a purported witch, her fiancé (Ian Ogilvy) deserts the army to hunt down her attackers. A masterful thriller.
by Beth Rowen
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The Crucible (1996)
Maid of Salem (1937)
An authentic-looking, well-written drama that closely parallels Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Claudette Colbert plays Barbara Clarke, the rebellious daughter of a conservative family who falls for an outsider who’s on the lam, Roger Coverman (Fred MacMurray). A young, spoiled girl (Bonita Granville) accuses her family’s servant of being a witch and sets off a wave of hysteria in the town that results in falsely accused witches being burned at the stake. Because Barbara sympathizes with the accused, she’s tried and convicted as a witch herself. It’s up to Coverman, who has legal trouble of his own, to save her from a horrible death.
Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
This landmark horror film remains one of the most chilling of the genre. Life for Manhattan newlyweds Guy and Rosemary Woodhouse (Farrow and Cassavetes) seems to be copacetic. But lurking beneath their facade is Guy’s involvement with witchcraft and Satanism, which he is introduced to by the couple’s oddball yet endearing neighbors, Minnie and Roman Castevet (Ruth Gordon and Sidney Blackmer). Rosemary is delighted when she becomes pregnant, though the child she bears is not a bundle of joy. Best Supporting Actress Oscar went to Gordon.
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Halloween: Witchcraft in Film, Part 4
- Halloween: Witchcraft in Film, Part 4
TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about.
Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs?
The Twelve Dancing Princesses
Current Events This Week: January 2023
African Americans by the Numbers
Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents
The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales
TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about.
Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs?
The Twelve Dancing Princesses
Current Events This Week: January 2023
African Americans by the Numbers
Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents
The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales
- Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs?
- The Twelve Dancing Princesses
- Current Events This Week: January 2023
- African Americans by the Numbers
- Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents
- The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales
