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secluded, marshy in Louisiana are producing a series of bizarre crimes. In less than two years, eight women (all young and pretty) have been killed in a manner that evokes some kind of ritual (the bodies are hung from a tree, face down, fully bled and a "cross ansata"-o ankh - drawn with his own blood on the belly).
The area has a certain tradition and the local witch believe that behind everything is the practice of black magic.
To clarify the mystery comes to the region a small team of psychics and psychic researchers. As stipulated in fees (this is a scary movie), settle down, of course, in an isolated cabin deep in the bayou. Well away from any possible help and very close to the evil lurking in the swamps ...
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Director: William O. Brown / Producer: William O. Brown and Jones LQ (LQ / Las Cruces-Arrow) / Writer: William O. Brown / Photo: John Arthur Morrill / Music: Jaime Mendoza-Nava / Performer: Thordis Brandt, Anthony Eisley, Alvy Moore, John Lodge, Shelby Grant, Tony Benson, Robyn Millan, Sue Bernard, Teska Moreau, Helen Winston, Warrener Ott, Rudy Haydel, Kathy Linn, Howard Viet, Nancy Crawford, Patricia Wymer, Burt Mustin / Nationality and year: USA 1968 / Time and technical data: 97min. Color DVDRip (although the original copy is not to throw rockets. Sometimes it seems like a VHSRip. Well done, yes ...) (VOSE)
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So here I am again, mes amis, after a long absence (for reasons beyond my intention .... That's right: nothing serious, Allah be praised).
I tried to take advantage (as far as possible) that forced retirement to keep "arrebuscando" rare and difficult to watch movies. With reasonable success. What happens is that all I've found are in the workshop because they either need some kind of assembly or require the creation of subtitles exnovo. And these things take time (and time is precisely what I have had so far).
Well ... But let the chicha, which is what matters.
In some recent posts and comments that came out intervened more than once, a kind of subgenre that I draw much attention, and I think lesser known (and known) than it deserves . I mean that current American films produced between the late 60's and early 70's, dealing with Satanism from a viewpoint that has nothing to do with films like Rosemary's Baby (1967) or The Exorcist ( 1973), films that would serve to "narrow" chronologically (in a very loosely) the genre to which I am referring to. But which, curiously, does not owe anything, or aesthetics or story or ideologically.
This subgenre to which I can not think of any name ("Hillbilly Satanism, perhaps? Ahem ...) is characterized by the diabolical approach the issue in a very peculiar, showing entire communities, organized, dedicated to the worship of devil, located in rural areas more or less isolated, well defined and cohesive. As a kind of crazed reflection (though not explicit) of the Midwestern Bible Belt or the Deep South redneck, conservative and ultracristiano.
Gradually, thanks to the gods (or to go Nah, you know who ... best not to think much, being the topic in question, ahem) these films have come to light in this and other forums. I speak of The Devil's Rain, Enter The Devil, The Warlock Moon, The Brotherhood Of Satan, Werewolves In Wheels, Blood Sabbath (this still in their original, although I can announce an immediate increase to doubling) or Race With The Devil.
well ... Well now it's one of the first, The Witchmaker.
is a curious film of 1968, halfway between the often bizarre sixties Something Weird Video editing and the genre of which I speak.
Produced by LQ Jones (a common side in the films of Sam Peckimpah which was some enthusiasm for gender satanic which is also behind The Brotherhood Of Satan) with a really tiny budget and a plot that oscillates between delusional and rigorous, not average, not end of sickle and coz belong to subgenus of Satanism is present Hillbilly although many of its keys.
In The Witchmaker not before us, in fact, one of those rural communities and closed to which I have alluded. Here Satan worshipers are more "professional" and limited. And they seem culled from a first-of Roger Corman film or series-Z who tried to imitate British models of the early decade. The fantasy element is much heavier (transformations, embodiments and other "ones" ... All very magical and unrealistic). One not very clear how they relate to the environment and, moreover, a sort of coven mounted halfway between a burlesque show (belly dancer included. I swear!) And a family picnic in which participants (by invocation) seem to be excluded on the casting extras in The Mask Of The Red Death and The Cry Of The Banshee (both da ... Do not they wanted on either).
But on the other hand, its location in the boggy bayous of Louisiana, in a remote area, isolated and oddly picturesque in the American imagination is closely related to the supernatural, the uncanny and the fantastic (voodoo, lycanthropy, African and European witchcraft, supernatural traditions of old French and English) and anything else related directly with that Satanism Hillbilly we are talking about.
The appearance of a team of researchers determined to investigate the strange deaths in recent years using parapsychological techniques not only accentuates this relationship. But I say: it's like having all the components, the writer and director had decided not to bet the whole satanic realism. As if at the last minute had stuck to the old convention of witches flying on brooms and some imagery gotizante (in the European sense) that it was already being abandoned.
But well ... But with that, the movie has its interesting and entertaining. In addition, amid a jumble of references, girls in bikini, cleavage and belly dancers generous, rigorous curiously plays with things like the rise of ankh (cross ansata of Egyptian origin) or the characterization of the witch greater (the loss and excessive John Lodge) and berserker (which refers to the Germanic paganism ... I know that the berserkers were warriors possessed by the deity, demon- or the spirit of a bear). As I said before, the movie is a bit bizarre midway between Something Weird Video and underground rarities from the late 60's. Not Simon, King Of The Witches, of course (or comes close ... at all) but it is not a crazy or a mere nuddie Exploitation.
is an honest and humble sub-B series, made with some imagination and that, although still not decided to take the side that Satanism Hillbily with all the consequences, and anticipates participating in several of its features.
One last curious. The movie was released in Spain, although it was published in the 80's VHS (so we can post a dual version). The title was given for the occasion was The Sorceress. The strange thing is that the USA itself and despite being limited distribution tape and whose current reissue is quite sui-generis (then talk about it) the film was known, in addition to its original title of The Witchmaker (something as "The Maker Of Witches") by another much longer: The Legend Of The Witch Hollow.
And, apparently, by a third party: The Naked Witch. In fact, one of the posters I've posted the image (and I find most elegant of all, really) takes the latter title. The thing I find curious. More than anything because there was already a movie with that name, shot a few years earlier (in 1961), directed by one Larry Buchanan, barely 60 minutes long (directly made for a double session, of course) and addresses the issue of witchcraft from a very interesting point of view as well. Although it has little to do with it.
I have a copy in my collection as part of a double-feature from Something Weird Video, but it is a VO without subs. Maybe one day I do some subtitles and rising.
now posting the copy is a DVD ripping an American who has assembled one from a English audio editing VHS. I have the original DVD Yankee, a curious thing ... This is an edition of Sinister Cinema, a house that is dedicated to editing and selling rare in VHS and DVD in a way that I would define as semiamateur. I get that what they do is spend VHS's to DVD with care, cleaning a poquico the image and increase efforts to get a decent result. At least far better than what the Alpha Video (which is judged on call). The issue that made this movie is "special" and has two discs. One in the form scope and one with the flap. Given the source, the image quality is not exactly optimal (like a VHSRip, although done with great care, of course) but very dignified. And in any case, all you have, mes amis. Of course, the ripped version is the scope, as you can see from the catch.
well ... and nothing else. You see this time I have been brief. That must be because they have lost the habit and because I have to be warming up, hehehehe. What I hope (I'm sure) is that my absence is over and that henceforth, it will reappear with a more or less regular frequency. Sorry, mes amis, but you are going to get rid of me so easily.
As always, the film is cut with File Splitter & Joiner. I have uploaded to Megaupload, but I believe this also lately puñeta server is doing with particular relish. I do not know if I have to switch to another as Mediafire and such ... We'll see ... Anyway, a friend and I reraised to Mediafire links included.
That's it. VOAC you enjoy.
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