Post by Eλευθερί on Oct 21, 2020 4:03:36 GMT
A low-profile film I had not heard of until I recently started searching for films on witchcraft that I had not previously seen.
Mildly entertaining through the first two-thirds, where it's never quite clear whether there is/are any actual witches or just people who have foolishly convinced themselves that there are witches.
The inspiration for the original title ("Night of the Witches") only becomes apparent in the last 5 minutes of the film.
The filmmakers almost shocked me into thinking that they would end the film in a way that would have been extremely unusual for a 1962 film (although not necessarily entirely unexpected had it been made by Hitchcock, post-Psycho). But in the end, they tidied everything up so that those pre-slasher era audiences could all go home feeling all was still right with the world.
6/10
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"The inspiration for the original title ("Night of the Eagle") only becomes apparent in the last 5 minutes of the film."
Mildly entertaining through the first two-thirds, where it's never quite clear whether there is/are any actual witches or just people who have foolishly convinced themselves that there are witches.
The inspiration for the original title ("Night of the Witches") only becomes apparent in the last 5 minutes of the film.
The filmmakers almost shocked me into thinking that they would end the film in a way that would have been extremely unusual for a 1962 film (although not necessarily entirely unexpected had it been made by Hitchcock, post-Psycho). But in the end, they tidied everything up so that those pre-slasher era audiences could all go home feeling all was still right with the world.
6/10
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"The inspiration for the original title ("Night of the Eagle") only becomes apparent in the last 5 minutes of the film."
