This very bizarre movie was directed by Bert I. Gordon and it's quite a change from his horror films featuring giant insects and other monsters.
A young couple, Lori and Frank Brandon (Pamela Franklin and Michael Ontkean) move to a small California town called Lilith for Frank's work. Lori doesn't really feel comfortable about the moves but goes along reluctantly anyway.
Frank seems to be blind to everything in town, but Lori not only has strange visions but she also notices that some of the people in town act pretty odd and some of the questions that a mysterious Mr. Cato (Orson Welles) asks Frank are also odd and out of place.
It seems that Mr. Cato runs the town, which is actually a coven of witches and he plans to use Lori to bring his dead son back to life. Welles performance as Cato isn't bad and Franklin comes across the best as the victimized young woman who fights for her survival and sanity.
The ending of the film is pretty odd, but not original. I liked this movie. I hadn't seen it since I owned an old VHS many years ago under the title "The Witching".
I was very pleased to see the beautiful Sue Bernard in this movie as a seductress named Nancy. Bernard has quite a background and was one of the most underrated actresses in cinema history.
This is a movie that seems to me anyway to have fallen thru the cracks of horror history and movie history in general. Maybe someday I'll write a post about theses kinds of movies. Anyway, this isn't too bad and if you haven't seen it, maybe you should give it a try.
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