Directed by Brunello Rondi • 1963 • Italy
Starring Daliah Lavi, Frank Wolff, Dario Dolci
For his second film as a director, famed screenwriter and Fellini collaborator Brunello Rondi (LA DOLCE VITA, 8½) created this shocking and deeply unsettling folk horror nightmare that would influence a wave of films including WITCHFINDER GENERAL and THE EXORCIST. In rural Southern Italy, an emotionally disturbed young woman (a frighteningly committed, spider-walking Daliah Lavi) turns to witchcraft to curse her former lover. But is her increasingly alarming behavior due to obsession or possession?
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Viy
Directed by Konstantin Yershov and Georgi Kropachyov • 1967 • Soviet Union
Starring Leonid Kuravlyov, Natalya Varley, Vadim ZakharchenkoIn nineteenth-century Ukraine, a seminary student (Leonid Kuravlyov) is forced to spend three nights with the corpse of a beautiful young witch (Natalya Varley...
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Alison’s Birthday
Directed by Ian Coughlan • 1981 • Australia
Starring Joanne Samuel, Bunney Brooke, Lou BrownSomething like an Australian answer to ROSEMARY’S BABY, this satanic-panic shocker remains one of the most chilling—and criminally underseen—Ozploitation outings of the 1980s. When a Ouija board séance w...
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The Girl on the Broomstick
Directed by Václav Vorlíček • 1972 • Czechoslovakia
Starring Petra Černocká, Jan Hrušínský, Jan KrausIn this charming Czechoslovak fantasy, irrepressible teenage witch Saxana (Petra Černocká)—facing three hundred years of detention at her sorcery academy—casts a spell that transports her to the...
