Wuchak
Pastoral drama/mystery starts and ends with witchy horror
A schoolteacher who had been traumatized by witchdoctors as a missionary in Africa (Joan Fontaine) gets a gig at a remote English village where she starts to suspect witchcraft being practiced. Kay Walsh plays the educated matriarch of the town.
The Witches (1966), also known as The Devils Own, is obscure Hammer Horror that obviously influenced the cult flick The Wicker Man (1973). Its mostly a slow rural drama/mystery that opens and closes with overt witcheries.
Speaking of which, people complain about the awful and laughable conclusion, but it was innovative and no doubt shocking in 1965 when it was shot. Whilst cinema flirted with Satanism & witchcraft in ...