Written and directed by notorious long-time American expat Roman Polanski, Rosemary’s Baby is based on a 1967 novel of the same name by Ira Levin. Rosemary’s Baby (1968) Mia Farrow plays a troubled pregnant woman in Rosemary’s Baby.

A British production, the film was released in America under the title The Devil’s Own. After a stint in a mental hospital, she moves to a small rural English town but to her horror realizes that witchcraft reigns supreme there, too. The Witches (1966) A black cat portends doom in The Witches.Ī schoolteacher named Gwen (legendary actress Joan Fontaine in her last film role) loses her mind in Africa after witch doctors mentally harass her. City of the Dead is a fun mystery thriller. Years prior, a witch named Elizabeth Selwyn (Patricia Jessel) was burned at the stake in Whitewood, but Nan quickly discovers that the past may not be completely dead. Christopher Lee is featured as a college professor who suggests to his student Nan Barlow (Venetia Stevenson) that she visit his hometown of Whitewood so she can research the town’s history of witchcraft. City of the Dead (1960) City of the Dead was originally written as a television pilot before extending it into a full-length feature film.Ī witch’s curse condemns a small town in Massachusetts to perpetual torment in City of the Dead. In many ways, this movie inspired many witch films as well as the Bewitched TV series from the 60s. Instead of taking revenge, though, she starts to fall in love, and hilarity ensures. The movie is based on the book The Passionate Witch by Thorne Smith, and the plot is about a witch trying to take revenge against the descendant of a Salem Puritan bloodline that once wrecked her witch heritage. This screwball witch comedy from France is a classic. Old Witch Movies I Married a Witch (1942) I Married a Witch: A wacky comedy from the 1940s. So let’s jump into this pop-culture phenomenon of the witch and scope out all the movies in this fascinating genre.

Wiccan by Michelle Leighton