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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Its isolated community, politely evasive locals and steadily tightening occult unease closely echo the sinister small-town trap of The Brotherhood of Satan, with a similarly deliberate 1970s atmosphere.
02
Why this pick
A road trip turns into a frantic encounter with a secretive rural satanic cult. It keeps the Southwestern setting and ordinary-family vulnerability, but plays the danger with more chase-driven momentum.
03
Why this pick
This early-1970s occult horror shares the film’s low-key dread, strange local power structures and sense that unsuspecting outsiders have wandered into an ancient, organized evil.
04
Why this pick
Another 1971 folk-horror nightmare in which children and a seemingly settled community become entangled with ritualistic evil; its pastoral calm makes the escalating menace especially unsettling.
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Why this pick
This compact television chiller builds similar paranoia around a remote community whose welcoming surface conceals a coordinated occult purpose, with an outsider gradually realizing escape may not be simple.
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01 / THE STORY
Ben (Charles Bateman (actor)), his girlfriend Nicky (Ahna Capri), and Ben's young daughter K.T. (Geri Reischl) are driving through the American Southwest to K.T.'s grandmother's house for a birthday celebration. They come upon an automobile accident in the town of Hillsboro, and when they attempt to report it, they meet the local sheriff, (L. Q. Jones), his assistant Tobey (Alvy Moore), Doc Duncan (Strother Martin), and a priest (Charles Robinson (actor, born 1932)). These locals explain the unusual events in the town which involve several murders, the inability of the people to leave the town, and that many of the local children have gone missing.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Doc Duncan
Ben
Nicky
Priest
Sheriff
