The Witches
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A crisp British occult thriller with a rational protagonist confronting organised witchcraft, escalating ritual danger, and the same handsome, old-fashioned seriousness that powers The Devil Rides Out.
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Why this pick
A crisp British occult thriller with a rational protagonist confronting organised witchcraft, escalating ritual danger, and the same handsome, old-fashioned seriousness that powers The Devil Rides Out.
Why this pick
Another Hammer occult nightmare, centred on a race to protect an innocent from a Satanic scheme; it shares the period’s lush unease and direct, supernatural sense of threat.
Why this pick
Its fogbound New England village, black-magic history, and mounting ritual dread offer a compact, atmospheric companion to Fisher’s earnest occult adventure.
Why this pick
A skeptical investigator is drawn into lethal Satanic rites in this exceptionally moody British chiller, balancing intellectual inquiry with an increasingly tangible supernatural menace.
Why this pick
For the rural-English folk-horror side of The Devil Rides Out: ancient evil seeps into a community, with striking period imagery and a steadily intensifying occult atmosphere.
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01 / THE STORY
Set in London and the south of England in 1929, the story finds Duke de Richleau (Christopher Lee), investigating the strange actions of the son of a friend, Simon Aron (Patrick Mower), who has a house replete with strange markings and a pentagram. He quickly deduces that Simon is involved with the occult. Nicholas de Richleau and Rex Van Ryn (Leon Greene) manage to rescue Simon and another young initiate, Tanith (Niké Arrighi), from a Theistic Satanismping cult. During the rescue, they disrupt a ceremony on Salisbury Plain, in which the Devil, the "Goat of Mendes" (Baphomet) appears.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Rex Van Ryn

Simon Aron
Marie Eaton

Richard Eaton
Peggy Eaton
Malin

Duc de Richleau
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