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Release Date: 1976 Cast: Rick Jason, Vanessa Brown, Millie Perkins, Lonny Chapman
Categories: Movies, Horror, Psychological thriller The Witch Who Came From the Sea is a 1976 American horror film directed by Matt Cimber and shot by cinematographer Dean Cundey. The film concerns a dysfunctional and disturbed woman called Molly (played by Millie Perkins) who, after suffering repeated sexual abuse at the hands of her alcoholic father, embarks on a spree of gruesome sexual encounters with men who she meets during her job as a waitress in a seaside bar.
For its scenes of extreme sexual violence the film was banned in several countries around the world. In 1983, the United Kingdom Department of Public Prosecutions compiled a... MORE
The Witch Who Came From the Sea is a 1976 American horror film directed by Matt Cimber and shot by cinematographer Dean Cundey. The film concerns a dysfunctional and disturbed woman called Molly (played by Millie Perkins) who, after suffering repeated sexual abuse at the hands of her alcoholic father, embarks on a spree of gruesome sexual encounters with men who she meets during her job as a waitress in a seaside bar.
For its scenes of extreme sexual violence the film was banned in several countries around the world. In 1983, the United Kingdom Department of Public Prosecutions compiled a list of 74 video releases that were not brought before the BBFC for certification and declared them prosecutable for obscenity. This list of "video nasties" included The Witch Who Came From the Sea, which was successfully prosecuted and banned. In the United Kingdom, the film was only finally released completely uncut in 2006.
The Witch Who Came From the Sea has been recommended by film critic Mark Kermode as one of the best video nasties of the era. One critic viewed the film as not being a horror film but actually representing a scathing indictment of child sexual abuse as well as a study of a LESS
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