The Devonsville Terror (1983)

Directed by

Ulli Lommel

Genre

horror film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 24m

Rated

NR

Rating

4.7 of 10 from 33 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three women move to a conservative New England town. One of them is the reincarnation of a witch who was executed by the town's founders centuries ago. The women face hostility from the locals as the past returns to haunt the present.

atmosphericominoussupernaturalslow-burnhistoricaleerievindicativegrungy

What happens

The Devonsville Terror is a 1983 American supernatural horror film directed by Ulli Lommel and starring Suzanna Love, Donald Pleasence, and Robert Walker. The plot focuses on three different women who arrive in a conservative New England town, one of whom is the reincarnation of a witch who was wrongfully executed along with two others (Morrigan Hurt and Barbara Cihlar) by the town's founding fathers in 1683. Inspired by the Salem Witch Trials, writer-director Lommel and his wife, actress Suzanna Love, co-wrote the screenplay for The Devonsville Terror with George T. Lindsey. The film was shot in Lincoln County, Wisconsin in 1983, and was intended for a theatrical release but instead was released directly to home video in October 1983 through Embassy Home Entertainment. The film received a theatrical exhibition for a single weekend in New York City in December 1983. The Devonsville Terror went on to receive release through Anchor Bay Entertainment, who reissued the film in 1999 on both VHS as well as a double billing DVD paired with Lommel's The Boogeyman (1980). In 2016, a new edition was released on Blu-ray and DVD through the UK distributor 88 Films, followed by a North American Blu-ray release by Vinegar Syndrome in 2023. The film has been noted by some film scholars as an early example of a feminist-inspired horror film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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