When her grave is disturbed by modern-day land developers, a 300-year-old witch is accidentally resurrected and terrorizes an English village.
Acting
Lon Chaney Jr. growls through every scene like he's owed money.
Practical Effects
Gloriously cheap witch makeup that somehow still slaps.
Production
Misty English graveyards shot on a budget of approximately sixpence.
Director
Don Sharp
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Lon Chaney Jr.'s final British horror film; he was mostly blind from cataracts during shooting and had to be physically guided to his marks.
Released the same year as 'The Masque of the Red Death' and 'The Last Man on Earth,' this was part of a wave of low-budget British horror competing with Hammer's dominance.
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