Favorite movies about witches

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13 Aug 2020, 11:07 am

What are your favorite movies involving witchy characters?

My list:

The Craft
Sleepy Hollow
Witches of Eastwick
Hocus Pocus
Pumpkinhead

(I actually liked the book version of The Wizard of Oz better because they included the 4th witch of the South who for some reason was left out in the movie).

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13 Aug 2020, 4:24 pm

The Witch.

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13 Aug 2020, 4:29 pm

The original "Wicker Man' and "The Conqueror Worm" were fantastic.

"The Witches of Eastwick" was uneven, but had its moments.

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14 Aug 2020, 7:14 am

Maybe have a look at City Of The Dead (1960), aka Horror Hotel.

There's also a colourized version: https://youtu.be/GKH5q_3kiXg

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14 Aug 2020, 9:25 am

I've never seen it, but I heard Suspiria was good.

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14 Aug 2020, 9:44 am

(Disclaimer: I could never write a review that captures the essence of my favorite "witch film" so well; so here is a professional review, ripped directly from the Internet.)

Jim Vorel wrote:

Witchfinder General (1968, Director: Michael Reeves) is one of those torture-centric horror films that caused a bona-fide uproar in British society upon release, but would quickly seem (relatively) tame in the gonzo horror years to follow, especially in the U.S.A. Vincent Price stars in a role he always considered one of his finest performances, giving life to reviled witch-hunter Matthew Hopkins, who is estimated to have been responsible for the executions of 300 or more suspected witches in the mid-1600s. Unlike his earlier Edgar Allan Poe films of the ’60s, this is no campy performance in the vein of Roger Corman’s Tales of Terror or House of Usher. This is Price at his most stately, serious and sinister, embarking on a wave of brutal killings carried out in the name of religious conviction. It captures England during a period of unbridled mania and savagery.

Vincent Price at his sinister best

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14 Aug 2020, 9:53 am

The Conqueror Worm...was first released in England as Witchfinder General :jester:

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18 Aug 2020, 10:34 am

I wonder if The Addams Family counts? That grandma was clearly a witch. :skull:

Also I liked the witch young Cersei met in Game of Thrones, the one who foretold a most unfortunate future for her.

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