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The Witchmaker

The Witchmaker

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Overview:

A psychic researcher and his assistants investigate a series of murders of young women indicates that showed up in the swamps of Louisiana satanic sect leader that requires female blood for their occult rituals.
Released: 1969-05-01
Duration: 01:39:00
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Keywords: Witch, Satanism, Swamp, ...
Director: William O. Brown, Blaire Brooks
Writer: William O. Brown
Cast: Anthony Eisley, Warrene Ott, Sue Bernard, ...
Director: William O. Brown Blaire Brooks
Writer: William O. Brown
Cast: Anthony Eisley Warrene Ott Sue Bernard Helene Winston Larry Vincent Alvy Moore Thordis Brandt Nancy Crawford Diane Webber John Lodge Shelby Grant Tony Benson Robyn Millan Burt Mustin Kathy Lynn Howard Viet Patricia Wymer Carolyn Rhodimer Gwen Lipscomb Valya Garanda Del Kaye
Genre: Horror Mystery
Keywords: Witch Satanism Swamp Murder Psychic Paranormal Investigation Witchcraft Cult Knife Serial Killer Sorcerer Investigation Ritual Murder Occult Violence Warlock Supernatural Power Psychotronic Film Paranormal Phenomenon Cemetery Coven Devil Worship Berserk Belly Dancer Poisoned Pig Blood Sinking In Quick Sand Public Nudity Independent Film
Description

After four local girls are found, murdered, hung up downside down in tree, and drained of blood in a Louisians swamp , an intrepid documentary team comes to investigate. They're actually a lot more intrepid than intelligent though because they decide to stay in an isolated cabin in the middle of the swamp with their only way in or out being a local yokel in a boat who promises to come back and get them in a week, but is incommunicado in the meantime. One of the female members of the team is a "sensitive" who is attuned to witches and who had a grandmother who was an actual witch. The perpetrators turn out to be a female witch, Jessie, and a male "berserker", Lucas, who maintain their youth by drinking human blood. They make short work of most of the team, but take special interest in the "sensitive" who they hope to add to their coven.

This has elements of a lot of future movies--not only "The Blair Witch Project", but also "The Legend of Hell House" as well as other Louisiana-filmed regional obscurities like "The Crypt of Dark Secrets". On the other hand, however, this film is really quite unique in a lot of ways and there never has really been another film like it. It kind of invents its own mythology what with the "berserker", the witches who stay young by drinking blood(which sounds more like vampires), and odd facts like garlic making one invisible to witches and pig's blood being very bad for black masses. The film is also strange in that it in many ways seems like a 50's film, but then it also contains some surprisingly graphic violence and not-so-graphic sex and nudity, and it has the kind of nihilistic ending much more common in 70's films. The most weird and memorable aspect though comes at the end when the villains hold a coven meeting/black sabbath and their coven turns out to include any number of witches, real and fictional, from throughout history, including "Goody Hale" (one of the few Salem residents NOT accused of witchcraft).

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