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Friday, Feb 2, 2001
Burn, Witch, Burn
The love of a good woman is hard to find, the love of a good witch even harder. Burn, Witch, Burn, a great little-known thriller, is the last word on the housewife as witch, taking the adage, "Behind every successful man..." away from the kitchen sink to a chilling conclusion. Tansy Taylor (Janet Blair) practices witchcraft to further her college professor husband's career. When Norman Taylor (Peter Wyngarde) discovers the secret of his success, he destroys Tansy's instruments of black magic, heedless of her warnings that he has left himself vulnerable to evil forces. All these forces and the plot are geared toward making rationalist sociologist Norman "believe"-see what Tansy sees, know what she knows about the power in everyday objects around him (with a sidebar on wicked faculty politics). In this low-budget production, filmed on the rugged Cornwall coast, cinema performs its old black-and-white magic and brings us under the spell of that thing called editing. (JB)
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