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Heidi, a radio DJ and recovering drug addict in Salem, Massachusetts, receives a wooden box containing a vinyl record and a note inscribed "a gift from the Lords". The music set in the grooves of the record proves to have both a link to Salem's violent history and an unsettling effect on Heidi and some of the other young women in Salem. [more inside]
posted by orange swan on Jan 4, 2023 - 6 comments

Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. But the film itself is far from serious-- instead it's a witches' brew of the scary, gross, and darkly humorous. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 7, 2022 - 1 comment

An aging film star retreats to the Scottish countryside with her nurse to recover from a double mastectomy. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Oct 13, 2022 - 2 comments

A lonely teen discovers her family's ties to witchcraft. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 24, 2022 - 10 comments

During a ouija board session, teenage Alison is warned something terrible awaits her during her 19th birthday.
posted by miss-lapin on Oct 9, 2021 - 4 comments

"'The Touch of Satan' makes 'Rosemary's Baby' look like a Sunday school picnic!" - LA Free Press A guy falls in love with a weird gal who enchants him by telling him, of a lake, "This is where the fish lives!" Unfortuately, it turns out she's an actual enchantress, that is to say a witch, in turn to say Of The Devil, aka Gorgo and Mormo, and her gramma's both her sister and a murderer, or, as one character terms them, "fromakidal maniacs." Yet another movie not to expect a happy ending from. This is the episode where "Deadly" Beez McKeever babysits Observer (who she calls "Brian") and Bobo (who she thinks is a dog), in some particularly beloved host segments. YouTube (1h32m) Premiered July 11, 1998. 18 episodes left. Zaa! [more inside]
posted by JHarris on Jan 2, 2018 - 20 comments

A family in 1630s New England is torn apart by the forces of witchcraft, black magic and possession. A New England Folk Tale [more inside]
posted by Gyre,Gimble,Wabe, Esq. on Feb 23, 2016 - 40 comments