WITCHCRAFT (1964)
Article #961 by Dave Sindelar
Viewing Date: 11-1-2003
Posting Date: 3-30-2004
Directed by Don Sharp
Featurng Lon Chaney Jr., Jack Hedley, Jill Dixon
When an ancestral cemetery is plowed over by a bulldozer, a witch who was buried alive arises from her grave to wreak vengeance.
There really aren’t that many surprises in this standard entry in the witch’s revenge/devil worship subgenre of horror. Nonetheless, it’s effective enough, at least partially due to a generally decent level of acting enlivened by a good performance by Lon Chaney Jr. (though he only appears sporadically); actually, he seemed to get better horror roles during the sixties than he did the previous decade. One thing that caught my attention was what I orginally thought was an editing gaff; a woman is driving through a landfill, but the shots through her windshield show her driving through a tree-lined lane. In truth, what she sees through the windshield is merely what she sees in her mind, though I do consider it a case where the movie could have made this a lot clearer; as it is, I didn’t figure it out until the same thing almost happens again later and we get a verbal explanation.
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Just wanted add; Agreed! I too got ‘fooled’ by exactly the same thing; when realised Don surely couldn’t have been so lazy as to goof that twice over! Still, having admitted that, he still overlooked Old Granny’s end of stair tumble onto floor; from above face flat; next shot from below (floor level) she’s rolled over to be face on side, arm outstretched! (Although perhaps she could still struggle move, coz few mins later and she’s recovered enough to begin edging towards the ringing ‘phone …)