Cry of the Banshee (1970)

Directed by

Gordon Hessler

Genre

horror film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 31m

Rated

R

Rating

5.4 of 10 from 71 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A 1970s British horror film starring Vincent Price. An evil magistrate persecutes witches and a family is cursed by a banshee.

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What happens

Cry of the Banshee is a 1970 horror film directed by Gordon Hessler and starring Vincent Price. It was released by American International Pictures. It was written by Tim Kelly and Christopher Wicking. Despite the tagline reading "Edgar Allan Poe probes new depths of Terror!" the film is completely unrelated to Poe's work, apart from quoting five lines of his 1849 poem The Bells before the opening credits. The title credit sequence was animated by Terry Gilliam. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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