Burn witch burn novel5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() Producer Albert Fennell and director Sidney Hayers are best known for working on the series The Avengers, and Hayers also directed the interesting Circus of Horrors. ![]() It’s like a full-length episode of Boris Karloff’s Thriller TV series, very stylishly done. Others may be convenience and predictability, as it’s not terribly hard to guess the rival witch from her sinister appearance. You can see the leash attached to him, but that’s only a minor flaw. This British film is known in England as Night of the Eagle because a big stone eagle atop the main building plays a part in the climax. The hysterical trumps the rational, which explains much of the plot. The subtext, or even the text, is that women are the secret power, worthy of men’s mistrust and fear but not their patronizing attitudes. He can’t handle the truth and makes her burn all the talismans, so the real trouble begins. ![]() “I’m a witch,” she confesses, informing him that he’s surrounded by enemies and implying that his success is due as much to her protections and spells as to his own silly scholarship on the psychology of superstitions. Burn Witch Burn is a trim little black and white chiller set at an English university, where an up-and-coming professor (Peter Wyngarde) is distressed to learn his wife Tansy (Janet Blair) has decorated the house with all sorts of voodoo claptrap she picked up in Jamaica. ![]()
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