Following a nervous breakdown, Gwen takes up the job of head teacher in the small village of Haddaby. There she can benefit from the tranquillity and peace, enabling her to recover fully. But under the facade of idyllic country life she slowly unearths the frightening reality of village life in which the inhabitants are followers of a menacing satanic cult with the power to inflict indiscriminate evil and death if crossed.
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Joan Fontaine
Gwen Mayfield
Kay Walsh
Stephanie Bax
Alec McCowen
Alan Bax
Ann Bell
Sally Benson
Ingrid Boulting
Linda Rigg
John Collin
Dowsett
Michele Dotrice
Valerie Creek
Gwen Ffrangcon Davies
Granny Rigg
Duncan Lamont
Bob Curd
Leonard Rossiter
Dr. Wallis
Director
Cyril Frankel
Tagline
"A STRANGER IN A TOWN THAT HAS LOST ITS MIND... IF SHE'S NOT CAREFUL, SHE MAY LOSE HERS TOO!"
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Production
Hammer Film Productions
Wuchak
May 25, 2022
_**Pastoral drama/mystery starts and ends with witchy horror**_ A schoolteacher who had been traumatized by witchdoctors as a missionary in Africa (Joan Fontaine) gets a gig at a remote English village where she starts to suspect witchcraft being practiced. Kay Walsh plays the educated matriarch of the town. “The Witches” (1966), also known as “The Devil’s Own,” is obscure Hammer H...
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