The City of the Dead

Sep 9, 1960

1h 18m

★ 6.5

300 years old! Human blood keeps them alive forever!

Overview

In Whitewood, Massachusetts, a presumed witch places a curse on the town before she is burned at the stake. 300 years later, a college student arrives and checks into the mysterious Raven's Inn to research the town's history with witchcraft.

Genres

Mystery

Horror

Production Companies

Vulcan Film

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Cast

Richard Barlow

Dennis Lotis

Prof. Alan Driscoll

Christopher Lee

Elizabeth Selwyn / Mrs. Newless

Patricia Jessel

Bill Maitland

Tom Naylor

Patricia Russell

Betta St. John

Nan Barlow

Venetia Stevenson

Jethrow Keane

Valentine Dyall

Lottie

Ann Beach

Rev. Russell

Norman MacOwan

Garage Attendant

James Dyrenforth

The Elder

Fred Johnson

Policeman

William Abney

A native of Sennwald, Anna Göldi arrived in Glarus in 1765. For seventeen years, she worked as a maidservant for Johann Jakob Tschudi, a physician. Tschudi reported her for having put needles in the bread and milk of one of his daughters, apparently through supernatural means. Göldi at first escaped arrest, but the authorities of the Canton of Glarus advertised a reward for her capture in the Zürcher Zeitung on February 9, 1782. Göldi was arrested and under torture, admitted to entering in a pact with the Devil, who had appeared to her as a black dog. She withdrew her confession after the torture ended, but was sentenced on June 18, 1782 to execution by decapitation. The charges were officially of "poisoning" rather than witchcraft, even though the law at the time did not impose the death penalty for non-lethal poisoning.

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