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  • Format: PAL, Colour, Widescreen, Anamorphic
  • Language: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.66:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: Studiocanal
  • DVD Release Date: 15 Jan. 2007
  • Run Time: 87 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (45 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000KRMZT2
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 7,344 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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'60's British B-movie chiller featuring voodoo, the supernatural and general dark arts. A comely young British teacher takes up a remote posting in darkest Africa where the local juju man lays a hex on her. She has a breakdown and is forced to return to the UK. There, she takes up a post at a rural school where all appears well on the surface. It turns out, however, that the place is a hotbed of witchery and darkness and that a virgin sacrifice is planned for the near future. The film was directed by Cyril Frankel, who'd made Hammer's 1960 child abuse drama 'Never Take Sweets From a Stranger', and the script was by Quatermass author Nigel Kneale. Their depiction of sinister undercurrents in a pastoral setting wasn't sinister enough for the BBFC, however, who only granted the film an 'A' certificate. Hammer persuaded them to reconsider, but this accomplished film still failed to find an audience.

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3.0 out of 5 starsAn intriguing near miss
By Trevor Willsmer HALL OF FAMETOP 50 REVIEWER on 27 Nov. 2006
Format: DVD
The Witches aka The Devil's Own is an interesting but ultimately unsuccessful attempt by Hammer to make a serious(ish) movie about witchcraft. Nigel Kneale's screenplay displays some of his customary intelligence, but here he seems hindered by working not from an original story but by adapting Norah Loft's novel. A deathly pale Joan Fontaine is the schoolteacher recovering from a nervous breakdown who takes a job in an outwardly idyllic English village only to gradually suspect that there are darker forces at work - although this could just be in her own imagination. Of course, we know that she's clearly bonkers after her horrible offscreen experience at the hands of witchdoctors in Africa (well, a soundstage in Bray) while the credits were running, but we also know that just because she's had one turn of the screw too many doesn't mean there aren't real witches at work...

It's good at the unpleasant undercurrents in ostensibly beautiful small country towns and also looks at the attraction witchcraft has for women of a certain age (it's a power thing, apparently, with magic as a substitute for waning sexual power). Unfortunately, it goes downhill pretty fast once the cat is, quite literally, out of the bag and the last reel orgy plays more like a bad amateur modern dance performance that goes on forever than a terrifying pagan ritual (the silly costume doesn't help, although it's probably the only 60s film to feature faecophiliacs at play if that's your thing).

The UK DVD has no extras, but Anchor Bay's deleted US release included trailer, TV spots and episode of the World of Hammer compilation series (and was also repackaged as a two-disc set with the demented Prehistoric Women). The UK Region B-locked Blu-ray only has a single extra, the 42-minute documentary Hammer Glamour (which can also be found on the US Region A-locked Blu-ray of Frankenstein Created Woman).
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4.0 out of 5 starsHammer Horror Classic!
By FAMOUS NAME VINE VOICE on 25 Mar. 2007
Format: DVD Verified Purchase
Despite being made more than forty years ago, this is quite a recent outing for actress Joan Fontaine in terms of her long and outstanding career - and in terms of how little she's done since. This film is an oddity for many of its cast - not least for Alec McCowen and Kay Walsh - to mention just two.

The film gets off to the classic start of strange and puzzling incidents, but somehow, despite the big build up, the viewer is left feeling rather 'let down' when reaching the climax. It is unsure what is to be expected, but one is somehow surprised/disappointed at the end. There's a surprise appearance of a young and good-looking Leonard Rossiter (Rising Damp) in one of his rare straight roles, and there are many other familiar faces, including Michelle Dotrice and Carmel McSharry.

Very much typical of the 1960s Hammer material that was turned out - but enhanced by a great performance from Fontaine. (some might find her acting style a little dated in this)

Was a long time coming out on DVD in the UK.
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5.0 out of 5 starsHammer at it's best. The great actress Joan Fontaine would only have ...
By miss gabrielle read on 7 Nov. 2014
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This is a Classic British film; Hammer at it's best. The great actress Joan Fontaine would only have chosen to star in something that was quality drama. Think John Wyndham/ English witchlore/Gothic English at it's best. All with a fabulous 'Marple' 60's setting.
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4.0 out of 5 starsA gem from the Hammer archives
By Nick London SW8 on 30 Jun. 2008
Format: DVD
I bought this on the strength of Hammer, witchcraft & mid 60s, then I read reviews & felt foolish as they all seemed to say it was dull, duff stuff. But not so. I saw it last night. The African set at the start is clearly a model but then it gets going and the colour photography is amazing: Wonderful, rich, sharp colours - the Berkshire countryside and villages are beautiful - it's great to see the world of my childhood alive again. In mid section it's rather like an episode of the Avengers from '66/67 set in High Summer England with Joan Fontaine doing a tolerably good, rather decorous, imitation of Diana Rigg. The sets are as good as ever Hammer did in this period - which is v good & v English. Good acting (lots of weird & lots of gin neat which always helps, not to mention lots of pills). Nice pace and the ending was, frankly, a total surprise (probably because I'd been expecting something more along the lines of The Wicker Man... there are lots of similarities). Also a nice touch mid way with an attack by savage, frenzied sheep (I saw 'Black Sheep' last month so that really worked for me). Overall this is really rather a good film - see it if you have the chance.
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe quality of this blueray disc is as good as it gets pin sharp picture
By dennis james stone on 27 April 2015
Format: Blu-ray Verified Purchase
I won,t dwell on the story,as all the other reviews say all you need to know.
The quality of this blueray disc is as good as it gets pin sharp picture, colour to die for and the sound is also extremly good as are all the Studio-Canal Hammer films on blueray, the only thing i can say is more Hammer films please.
Dennis James Stone.
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5.0 out of 5 starsOne of the better Hammer films
By BlackBrigand TOP 1000 REVIEWER on 13 Mar. 2016
Format: DVD
The Witches 1966 (AKA The Devils Own US)

Back in the 1980s I replaced most of my collection of 8mm movies with VHS and I have been going through a same process of upgrading to DVD for the last few years. This has given me the excuse to revisit many films that I have not seen for some time.

The Witches was a greatly underrated film and was one of the few Hammer Horror movies of the time to venture into the world of witchcraft and this 1966 offering was of a somewhat more serious and sinister vein than most Hammer films. The film was scripted by Nigel Kneale from the novel The Devil's Own by Norah Lofts, under the pseudonym Peter Curtis and was directed by Cyril Frankel and starred the still beautiful and fabulous Joan Fontaine ably supported by Alec McCowen, Kay Walsh and Ann Bell, Sadly this was Fontaine's final starring role on the big screen.

In my opinion this was one of the better Hammer films and has always been a personal favourite.
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