Oct 28, 2011
Trailer 654 of 895
Originally shot as Night of the Eagle, this clever supernatural thriller is the second adaptation of Fritz Leiber's 1943 occult novel Conjure Wife, filmed again in 1980 as Witches' Brew. Although the screenplay is credited to vet sci fi scribes Richard Matheson and Charles Beaumont, British writer George Baxt has long claimed he was responsible for an underground rewrite. US distributor AIP added a silly but fun prologue with Paul Frees intoning various warnings about witchery.
There's a fascinating essay on the complexities of this film in The American Reader by Tony Tulathimutte which can be accessed here: http://theamericanreader. om/the-curses-the-fates-the-races-the-fakes-the-faces-the-names-of-the-game-of-death-or-the-game-of-death/
I first heard of this movie my first semester in college when my French instructor used her having seen it on TV the previous weekend to form an example sentence. I think I probably saw it on the same show a year or two later (although not uncut) and agreeing it was pretty good for an early '70s low-budget sci-fi movie, certainly a step above something like Track of the Moon Beast or The Blood Waters of Dr...
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