The film deals with extremely dark and disturbing themes. But whether it’s great acting or simply a fortunate casting choice is impossible to decipher.

Certification: Australia:R18+ Canada:18+ (Quebec) Chile:18; France:16; Germany:18; South Korea:18; United Kingdom:18; United States:Not Rated; Sex & Nudity. The subject matter concerns a son being convinced/manipulated by his father into helping kill his own mother. Main character is seen drinking beer on a few occasions. Very mild profanities are present in small doses -- Harsh language that you would hear in an R-rated film such as "c**t" or "f**k" are nowhere to be heard in this film. The protagonist brutally stabs his wife to death as she sleeps, this of course wakes her up and her son smothers her face with a pillow and attempts to restrain her -- This scene is very graphic and disturbing, showing several spurts of blood, including a shot of the protagonist slicing his wife's neck. When they were three, the Moirai were: Clotho (/ ˈ k l oʊ θ oʊ /, Greek Κλωθώ, [klɔːtʰɔ̌ː], "spinner") spun the thread of life from her distaff onto her spindle.Her Roman equivalent was Nona ("the ninth"), who was originally a goddess called upon in the ninth month of pregnancy.

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Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. KJ Doughton resurrects reels and breathes life back into films currently on life support and verging on extinction. Cimber leaves no doubt as to why Molly is damaged goods, and how her warped nature came to be. The film’s restored, 16:9 widescreen format boasts huge, sweeping shots of beachfront waves that bookmark “Witch…” and lend an epic touch to its low-budget trappings. Cundey’s genius for reinventing natural landscapes as apocalyptic portals for threatening invaders was later evident in director John Carpenter’s “The Fog” (1980).

He heals it by rubbing gun powder on it and lighting it on fire, we hear him screaming in pain and fire sparking from his neck, he then recovers. By The bear is shot and we see the extremely gory aftermath of the attack. With long, sustained shots, the violence is quite strong. The ambush scene at the beginning and the fight at the end are full of brutal violence that goes on for several minutes with lots of blood and gore. Primarily used by Tom Hardy's character. And the film’s female avenger theme was certainly ahead of its time. A man has a flashback of a Native American village being attacked and burned to the ground. Please try again later. Numerous individuals are pierced by arrows, stabbed, clubbed and shot with blood spurts and many dead bodies are seen. A man is shot in the shoulder, we see a big blood stain on his shoulder, after that an intense chasing sequence unfolds that includes some strong gunshots. The Witch Who Came from the Sea (1976) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. | “Re-Animator” creator Stuart Gordon once remarked that the scariest things on film aren’t oversized reptiles terrorizing Tokyo. Parents Guide Add to guide . During the movie several animal has been killed and eaten, where their corpses are visible. He is bitten, thrown and dragged around, crushed, and clawed at by the animal. Applying his “rave resuscitation” to movies at risk of fading into obscurity due to old age, faltering promotional systems, premature delivery, societal stigma, or a runty box-office take, he advocates a second chance for flatlining films too important to die. Carpenter’s 1982 remake of “The Thing,” another of the filmmaker’s horror collaborations with Cundey, suggested similar dread, with white blankets of arctic ice and snow housing alien spaceships and parasite-inhabiting canines. If you share Hill’s enthusiasm for Cimber’s directorial approach, take solace in Subversive’s plans to release more of the filmmaker’s titles.

Then, I saw it in Cinemascope and figured that Matt was a really smart filmmaker who knew exactly what he was doing. Plot Keywords. A man encounters an injured cow lying on its side, and mercy kills it with a shotgun. An attack on a frontier camp by Native Americans transpires. Is this twisted duality – both a drooling admiration of rippling manflesh and a murderous rage against all things masculine – a product of childhood trauma? 15 photos.

Millie Perkins, perhaps best known for her star turn in 1959’s “The Diary of Anne Frank,” stars as Molly, a middle-aged, coast-inhabiting bartender with two preteen sons. Again, it’s an initially beautiful, eventually disastrous collision between incompatible worlds. And one could argue that “Witch…” handles themes of incest and sexual abuse in a manner that’s more aggressively honest than its more recent counterparts. The Witch Who Came from the Sea (1976) Photo Gallery. Lead character is also seen smoking a pipe on a few occasions. His genitals are very difficult to make out and you see his butt covered in blood. Plot Summary. A teenaged boy lies down beside his dead girlfriend. Perhaps not even a good one. The main character is often shown in great agony as he overcomes crippling wounds, hunger, cold, and pain to find the man who brutally murdered his son and left him for dead. During a long, uninterrupted tracking shot that lasts for several minutes (which is one of the movie's most famous scenes), a man is brutally and viciously mauled by a hungry grizzly bear, although he survives. The cow is not seen after the fall, but its cries which can be heard from the bottom of the well may be upsetting to animal lovers. It’s not necessarily a great movie. Swinging Safari is an Australian comedy by acclaimed filmmaker Stephan Elliott (The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert) with a star-studded cast... 314 shorts films in one week?

15 photos. She then dies of blood loss as well. So far, so unremarkable. the Witch and the Wardrobe. Blood and body matter are sprayed on the wall behind him, and a small tail of blood hangs from the corner of his mouth. Sex & Nudity. Despite his being lost at sea nearly twenty years ago, Molly holds onto the hope that this paternal influence is still alive. And who could forget the first dinosaur sighting in “Jurassic Park,” another unforgettable, Cundey-conjured panorama of feeding brontosauruses and overhead pterodactyls? It’s difficult to gauge whether Perkins is sensational or merely coasting by – her spacey affect lends itself to an abused, delusional basket case of a character. A horse falls off a cliff and loses its head after it impacts the ground, lots of blood and a few guts are seen. “Hard Candy” might be a more contemporary spin, but “Witch…” came up with the concept thirty years earlier. Many scenes portray this through bone-chilling high pitched music or terrifying visuals. Gazing into the surf, she reminisces about her long-lost father. In “Witch…,” Cundey casts waves, sand, and sunsets as harbingers of a paternal influence gone perverted and rancid. I thought that the movie had never been given proper justice. A fully nude man walks toward the camp, then collapses dead (we see blood on his neck and down his abdomen and he has an arrow in his back and we see it when he falls). Several instances of animals being hurt or killed, one quite graphically. The cow is offscreen when he kills it, but its moans while injured may be disturbing to some.

This short Guide for Parents and Teachers is designed to help those who want to know more—for there is far more to this novel than the parallel between Aslan saving Edmund by giving up his life for him and the sacrifice of Christ Jesus on the cross so that sinners might be forgiven. Glass's wife is shot twice with graphic blood spurts, we see her dead body for 10 seconds, a bird comes out of her gory wound. Matt’s movies always made a lot of money, but he never got the recognition he deserved.”. | A couple uses of "Jesus Christ", and "god damn". “When I first saw ‘The Witch who came from the Sea,’ I didn’t like it.

A man attempts to suffocate a man who is barely alive, he shoves a rag into his mouth for about 10 seconds. For this reason alone, “Witch…” merits inclusion in “Cinema CPR.” While the sheep gather to escape reality with committee-sanctioned, test-screened, hack-helmed hunks of innocuous celluloid waste like “RV” and “The Sentinel,” I’ll hunker down with director Matt Cimber’s supremely freaky female revenge shocker, recently resurrected onto DVD by Subversive Cinema as a gorgeous anamorphic transfer. A dead body with a gory wound is seen on a boat for 30 seconds. Edit . The murder and the aftermath, in which the traumatized teenaged boy comes to term with what he has done, can be very emotional and hard to watch. One moment, she’s leering at their Schwarzenegger-caliber biceps and bulging briefs. A woman gets very drunk and speaks about her teenaged son's sexual relations with his girlfriend. A man visits a morgue to identify his dead teenaged son. Your email address will not be published.

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