Tras una espeluznante experiencia con el ocultismo en África, una maestra de escuela se traslada a un pequeño pueblo inglés, sólo para descubrir que allí también reside la magia negra.Tras una espeluznante experiencia con el ocultismo en África, una maestra de escuela se traslada a un pequeño pueblo inglés, sólo para descubrir que allí también reside la magia negra.Tras una espeluznante experiencia con el ocultismo en África, una maestra de escuela se traslada a un pequeño pueblo inglés, sólo para descubrir que allí también reside la magia negra.
- Dirección
- Guionistas
- Elenco
- Linda Rigg
- (as Ingrid Brett)
- Granny Rigg
- (as Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies)
- Mark
- (sin créditos)
- Mrs. McDowall
- (sin créditos)
- Mr. Glass
- (sin créditos)
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- Guionistas
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¿Sabías que…?
- TriviaThis was Joan Fontaine's final film, perhaps due to its poor box office reception, though she continued to work in television well into the 1990s.
- ErroresWhen Linda starts dancing in the finale, Tom's position changes between long shots and close-ups.
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Gwen Mayfield: Look at this! Stuck full of pins and it's head missing. What do you think it could possible be?
Stephanie Bax: Witchcraft? Somebody having a little dabble? Yes, I would think so. Or did you think I was going to say, no no no, it can't happen here? I bet there are lots of remote spots where remnants of witchcraft are still practiced. Places like Heddaby, in fact. I've often wondered.
Gwen Mayfield: Well, what are we going to do?
Stephanie Bax: Do? Ah.
Gwen Mayfield: Well, I'd like to start by removing those pins.
Stephanie Bax: Yes, we could- Oh, no! Emphatically not! Do you see why? Well, that would mean admitting belief in it all, for ourselves I mean.
Gwen Mayfield: Oh, I see!
Stephanie Bax: I did some articles on witches once. No, not witches, damn them, people who thought they were witches. The psychology of it. It's a sex thing deep down, of course, mostly women go in for it, older women.
Gwen Mayfield: Like, um, Mrs. Rigg, for instance?
Stephanie Bax: Yes. They relish the idea of a secret power, especially when their normal powers are failing. Now, they may believe in it, the point is, do we? What are we giving into if we admit the possibility that a healthy young kid can be put in hospital by mere ill will? That's where it gets fascinating.
Gwen Mayfield: I see, what we admit we believe and what we believe I suppose, could destroy us.
Stephanie Bax: Beautifully put.
- ConexionesFeatured in The World of Hammer: Wicked Women (1994)
Walsh was a preeminent English actress, married to David Lean at one time, and starring with Sir Alec Guinness in five films, including Oliver Twist, Last Holiday and Scrooge. She first made an impression in In Which We Serve and she won a BAFTA nomination for Best Actress in The Horse's Mouth. She even collaborated with Lean, helping to write and edit his movies, and acting in several.
I'm not sure how she ended up as the kinky head of a devil worshipping cult, wearing a buck's horn headdress, chanting some foreign language and preparing to sacrifice the town's teenage virgin, so that she (Walsh) could extend her life as a young and beautiful girl again.
The choreography, if you can call it that, was incredible: Walsh in her crazy robes and horns shouted commands to the hypnotized townspeople who responded by writhing on the floor, lifting first one arm then another, lifting right leg then left; eating sacred slithery mud that Walsh has blessed and thrown to them; then simulating **** on the floor with the nearest member of the opposite sex.
This movie has to be seen to be believed. It has just enough fanatical elements to move it along: Fontaine suffers a nervous breakdown in Africa due to voodoo, then moves to England and finds a local cult in the tiny country town she has come to recover in. Walsh and her cracked brother take her in and there she learns about the local cult. There's a crazy grandma who works her own kind of magic with potions; a sadistic butcher who skins and guts rabbits at the counter of his shop; someone putting voodoo dolls in the trees; and somehow it all comes together and works with the final scene worth the price of admission.
- AlsExGal
- 24 feb 2021
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- The Witches
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- Tiempo de ejecución1 hora 30 minutos
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- 1.66 : 1