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Release Date: 1970 Cast: Carl Rigg, Hilary Dwyer, Patrick Mower, Elisabeth Bergner, Essy Persson, Sally Geeson, Vincent Price, Hugh Griffith
Categories: Movies, Horror, Costume Horror Cry of the Banshee is a 1970 horror film directed by Gordon Hessler, starring Vincent Price as an evil witchhunter. The film was released by American International Pictures. The film co stars Elizabeth Bergner, Hilary Dwyer, and Hugh Griffith. The script by Christopher Wicking and Tim Kelly is loosely based on the story by Edgar Allen Poe, but has nothing to do with the exact story.
The film is set in Elizabethan England and revolves around a wicked magistrate who tries to kill all the members of a coven of witches.
Lord Charles Whitman is hosting a great feast when suddenly two poor and... MORE
Cry of the Banshee is a 1970 horror film directed by Gordon Hessler, starring Vincent Price as an evil witchhunter. The film was released by American International Pictures. The film co stars Elizabeth Bergner, Hilary Dwyer, and Hugh Griffith. The script by Christopher Wicking and Tim Kelly is loosely based on the story by Edgar Allen Poe, but has nothing to do with the exact story.
The film is set in Elizabethan England and revolves around a wicked magistrate who tries to kill all the members of a coven of witches.
Lord Charles Whitman is hosting a great feast when suddenly two poor and ragged-looking little children enter the great hall. A burst of wolf-like howling from outside the walls warns that they may be "devil-marked." The lord decides to kill them in spite of the risk. As his eldest son sleeps with his pretty young wife and his daughter seeks out her favorite hairy-chested servant for comfort, Lord Whitman begins mumbling that he wants to "clean up" the witches in the area, especially "that decrepit old bag, Oona."
Assisted by his two older sons, Whitman goes hunting in the hills for witches, odd characters, and "persons of interest." His armed posse breaks up what is LESS
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