Cry of the Banshee 1970  PG, 86 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Gordon Hessler
Cast: Vincent Price, Elisabeth Bergner, Essy Persson, Hugh Griffith, Patrick Mower, Hilary Heath, Sally Geeson, Michael Elphick, Robert Hutton, Stephen Chase, Carl Rigg, Marshall Jones, Andrew McCulloch, Pamela Fairbrother, Quinn O'Hara
Lord Edward Whitman (Vincent Price) leads a witch-hunt and massacres many witches. Their leader, Oona (Elisabeth Bergner), then puts a curse on Whitman and his entire family. Using her occult powers, Oona summons a demon that takes the form of Roderick (Patrick Mower) who then takes the job of stable boy working for the Whitman family. Roderick falls in love with Whitman's daughter Maureen (Hilary Heath), which sets off tragic events involving both the witches and the Whitman family, and Oona gets her revenge.
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Macbeth 1971  R, 140 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: The Tragedy of Macbeth
Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, Martin Shaw, Terence Bayler, John Stride, Nicholas Selby, Stephen Chase, Paul Shelley, Bernard Archard, Maisie MacFarquhar, Andrew Laurence, Frank Wylie
This is, perhaps, the best of the films made about the William Shakespeare play, which tells the story of Scottish nobleman Macbeth (Jon Finch) who wants power and is driven in his quest by his mad wife Lady Macbeth (Francesca Annis) and many prophecies. Violent, but well told.
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| 1. Cry of the Banshee (1970)
2. Macbeth (1971)
aka: The Tragedy of Macbeth
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