Burn, Witch, Burn!

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Jerry B @RT50983018 Jul 2 Got a problem with the heroine, Janet Blair She doesn't fit the British cast....and she is too old. Otherwise, an intelligent, thoughtful satanist movie. See more JLD D. @Jduris Nov 14 Entertaining movie. Enjoyed from beginning to end. See more Christian K @ckacar Oct 6 Wow, more horror movies should start with a narrator casting a spell to protect you from the evil spirits in the movie. Unfortunately, the spirits are weak in this one, acting and production was solid, though. See more Michael B @RT79820631 10/17/2024 This Is Absolute Classic, WONDER Movie,Thank You.⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ See more Dave S @RT68722908 11/03/2023 It's always a bit surprising to stumble across what appears to be a low-budget movie with the American International Pictures studio logo attached to it that isn't a piece of crap. Surprisingly, Burn, Witch, Burn! is one of those movies. When a professor and skeptic (Peter Wyngarde) discovers that his wife (Janet Blair) is a witch, he does what any concerned skeptic would do – burn everything that even closely resembles something associated with the dark arts. Unfortunately for all involved, this unleashes a string of unfortunate occurrences, leading to mayhem and death. It's nowhere near as dumb as it sounds, thanks to solid performances, a decent script, and a genuinely eerie atmosphere throughout. It's the kind of film that will be forgotten about the day after you watch it, but it's interesting enough to hold your interest for ninety minutes. See more 07/04/2021 Based upon the 1943 Fritz Leiber novel Conjure Wife, this movie was called Day of the Eagle in the UK before getting a title that sounded more like a horror movie for American audiences. The book had already been adapted once before as Weird Woman in 1944 and then one more time afterward in 1979 as Witches' Brew. The American version also has an opening in complete blackness where the voice of Paul Frees reads a spell intended to protect the audience from the evil within the film. Filmgoers also were given a special pack of salt and the words to an ancient incantation. Man, going to the movies used to be awesome. American-International Pictures knew how to sell an occult movie! Written by a combination of Charles Beaumont (The Masque of the Red Death, several great Twilight Zone episodes), Richard Matheson (I Am Legend, Duel) and George Baxt (Shadow of the Cat, The City of the Dead), this is the story of Norman Taylor (Peter Wyngarde, Klytus from Flash Gordon), a man who discovers that all of his career success is due to the magic skills of his wife. As soon as he demands that she burns all of her magical ephemera, everything in his life goes wrong By the end of the movie, his rational view of the world must confront the fact that magic truly exists. It also posits that women are the magic workers of the world and that men just stumble through, a view I can completely agree with. See more Read all reviews

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