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HUNGRY WIVES

1972 US HMDB
December 27, 1972

An unhappy suburban housewife gets mixed up in witchcraft with unexpected consequences.

Directors

George A. Romero

Cast

Jan White, Raymond Laine, Ann Muffly, Joedda McClain, Bill Thunhurst, Neil Fisher, S. William Hinzman, Esther Lapidus, Dan Mallinger, Daryl Montgomery
Dramma Horror

REVIEWS (1)

MC

Marco Castellini

A middle-aged woman in an existential and marital crisis approaches witchcraft as a game, becoming fascinated and affected. Her psychological balance suffers greatly; the woman begins to have strange visions and terrifying nightmares in which she dreams of being attacked by a stranger who breaks into her home with force in the middle of the night. One of these nightmares will be the cause of her husband's death. One of Gerorge "zombi" Romero's early works, practically unknown to the general public and, this time, fortunately; the film is indeed of a deadly slowness and boredom, a barely hermetic beginning, a central part decimated by endless and tedious dialogues lacking logical sense, and a sad and predictable ending. Don't waste your time looking for it, it's not worth it.