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The Witch's Curse is a italien film of genre Fantasy directed by Riccardo Freda released in USA on 1 november 1963 with Hélène Chanel
The Witch's Curse (1962)
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Add to a movie listThe Witch's Curse (Italian: Maciste all'inferno) is an 1962 peplum-fantasy film, directed by Riccardo Freda. It is not a remake of a 1926 silent film with the same title directed by Guido Brignone. The sequences set in the Hell were entirely filmed in the Castellana Caves, in the province of Bari. Maciste, the leading character, was turned during the filming into an almost mute character as Freda was very unhappy with the acting skills of the main actor Kirk Morris. The film is referred as "an interpretation of mythology cum the gothic horror genre".
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^ Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti: dizionario dei film 2002. Baldini & Castoldi, 2001. ISBN 8884900875.
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In the mid 1500s a witch is burned in Scotland and places a curse on the inhabitants before she dies. One hundred years later the tree she was chained to and burned still stands with no one daring to destroy it. The curse remains by forcing women to commit suicide. The descendent of the witch, Martha Gunt is sentenced to be burned for witchcraft.Actors
Hélène Chanel
(Fania)
Andrea Bosic
(Judge Parrish)
Vira Silenti
(Young Martha Gunt)
Charles Fernley Fawcett
(Doctor)
John Karlsen
(Burgomeister)
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