Filmed on the rugged Cornwall coast, this low-budget British production, one of the great little-known thrillers, is the last word on the housewife as witch. Burn, Witch, Burn takes the adage, "Behind every successful man..." away from the kitchen sink and to a chilling conclusion. Tansy Taylor (Janet Blair), wife of an English university professor, practices witchcraft to further her husband's career. When he discovers the secret of his success, he destroys Tansy's instruments of black magic, heedless of her warnings that he has thus left himself vulnerable to evil forces. Burn, Witch, Burn was well received, though seldom shown, in the U.S.; the New York Times said, "Blend(s) lurid conjecture and brisk reality, growing chillier by the minute....The climax is a nightmarish hair-curler but, we maintain, entirely logical within the context..."