Perfect for setting some pre-Halloween atmosphere, here’s “Witchcraft ‘70” aka “The Satanists”, a predominantly UK-set mondo outing cobbled together by one Luigi Scattini.
I’m not usually much of a fan of mondo movies, but at least some sections of this one are an absolute gas, full of freaky visuals, echo-chambered Italian pop-psych music, endless footage of fuzzy, red-tinted naked cavorting, and an English narrator’s script that’s completely out to lunch.
Guest appearances by ubiquitous British witchsploitation kingpin Alex Sanders, some supposed Brazilian Macumba practitioners, and a guy who projects the memories of the dead onto polaroid film. Things go off the boil a bit in the second half with a lot of boring mediums, Hare Krishnas, some miscellaneous hippies (well, uh, they kinda *like* the occult, I guess..) and a section on cryogenics (me neither). But as long as the narrator keeps givin’ it some, it’s still fun for all the family.
Part one is here:
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