WITCH STORY

It has been fifty years since a witch burned at the stake cast a curse upon the inhabitants of an American town, but the terrible curse still seems to weigh upon the village. Some young people, with the help of a priest who had been the witch's lover, will manage to make the threat disappear, but not forever... Unfortunate Italian-American production directed by a semi-unknown director. The story is practically copied from "Mary's House" by Robertson (which, however, is clearly better), the situations are those "classic" ones from horror films: a terrible curse that weighs upon a town, a group of reckless young people ready for the slaughter, and also the usual priest fighting against the forces of evil... in short, originality close to zero! The most disturbing thing remains the crude jokes and nonsensical dialogues put into the mouths of the protagonists, things to make your skin crawl. The film could perhaps have been saved only if it had offered "rivers of blood" and extreme splatter, and yet not even that: violent scenes certainly do not lack, but they always stop "at the most beautiful", avoiding showing with profusion of details and resolving instead in a few splashes of blood or little else. A definitely negligible film.