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DVD!

posted 19 years ago by FourHundredaYear
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I wish some creative label, like Anchor Bay, would put out a DVD of this containing BOTH the original version and "The Witching" recut of the 1980s.

It may not be a good movie, but...

1. The original is a terrific time capsule of early seventies low-budget horror style, with nice photography and atmospheric settings, while the recut version has additional scenes featuring such eighties cult faves as Brinke Stevens.

2. Pamela Franklin is lovely and appealing, and does a gratuitious yet priceless nude scene -- while being burned at the stake!

3. It's got friggin' Orson Welles in it!

[–] FourHundredaYear 19 years ago

Bump.

[–] FourHundredaYear 19 years ago

...and again...

[–] FourHundredaYear 19 years ago

...and bump again...

[–] FourHundredaYear 19 years ago

...until...

[–] FourHundredaYear 19 years ago

...I hope...

[–] FourHundredaYear 19 years ago

...I say I HOPE, though it hasn't happened yet...

[–] FourHundredaYear 19 years ago

...(am I being defeated by some IMDB policy I don't know about?)...

[–] FourHundredaYear 19 years ago

...okay, if THIS one doesn't do it...

[–] FourHundredaYear 19 years ago

...fine! I give up. I was TRYING to get this message board to appear on the film's front page.

[–] Stuntrocker 19 years ago

Better yet .... Blue Underground needs to release this underrated classic with commentary by Pamela Fanklin and Sue Bernard.

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[–] podwilliams 17 years ago

The Witching is available in a DVD triple-pack, with After Darkness and Blood Sabbath:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Witching-After-Darkness-Blood-Sabbath/dp/B000F9TDBI/s
r=1-3/qid=1170954374/ref=sr_1_3/203-6795871-5359929?ie=UTF8&s=dvd

Sad, though, that the wonderful Pamela Franklin - so promising in The Pride of Miss Jean Brodie - made such a load of old crap from there on in.

Is And Soon the Darkness any good? Come to think of it, did Franklin star in any decent films other than Jean Brodie? And please, don't recommend any of those soddin' horror films!

The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.

[–] BalanceDragon1 17 years ago

I can't believe Pamela Franklin was given what she was given for "The Witching"... even then she was higher rated than this, but then so was Orson. Orson had been drawn into the study of the occult for some time, and I think it was his weakness (his part in this film sincs it). If you look at the dead boy in the film as his legacy/career, it makes a lot more sense as to why he did this film. At the time "Art House Grinders" -aka* Artful Gore Movies- were very 'in', and popular. How else to be accepted by a new generation (then) than to be a part of something that is popular with said generation? Unfortunately, this movie was not well enough made or promoted to accomplish such a feat.

[–] mark_shleck-1 16 years ago

A pretty brutal critique on Pamela Franklin, but she didn't do herself any favours by electing to go and act in some (pretty awful) mainstream films. Bit like hanging a Matisse painting on the wall of a council house in a crime-infested housing estate.

You can't hold a candle to Gulbenkian.

[–] mandarin992000 16 years ago

It'll be released on region 2 dvd in February- you can pre-order on Amazon.co.uk

[–] jbernhard 16 years ago

The R2 release is just the same old crap THE WITCHING version, yet again.

[–] jbracht 16 years ago

Do you know that for sure? Why would they re-release the same DVD version? Also, the original UK version was the witching and the newer version in April 2008 states "Necromancy"?!!

[–] Squonkamatic 16 years ago

Yeah it's just THE WITCHING all over again and from the looks of it taken from an actual VHS source. Same with BLOOD SABBATH on that box set, recycled home video crap masquerading a digital updates. Buyer beware.

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