Cundey’s genius for reinventing natural landscapes as apocalyptic portals for threatening invaders was later evident in director John Carpenter’s “The Fog” (1980). A couple uses of "Jesus Christ", and "god damn". Gunshots and gore are all very realistic in this movie.. The ending may be emotionally intense for some viewers. 23 uses of the word "fuck".
| No nudity in this scene. Blood and body matter are sprayed on the wall behind him, and a small tail of blood hangs from the corner of his mouth. Lead character is also seen smoking a pipe on a few occasions. This short Guide for Parents and Teachers is designed to help those who want to know more—for there is far more to this novel than the parallel between Aslan saving Edmund by giving up his life for him and the sacrifice of Christ Jesus on the cross so that sinners might be forgiven. Later on we see the bears bones and Its fur is used as a coat by the main character later on. They expose the early talent of collaborators who ultimately become renowned for superior offerings. At one point, the girl hits a man over the head with a heavy object to save the boy, and it is implied that the strike was fatal.
Afterwards, the woman claims that she will cut the man's testicles off, and we later see him with blood on his hands and around his crotch area.
Violence & Gore. He throws the animal to the floor and stomps it to death with his boot. Parents Guide Add to guide . A number of Native Americans are killed, and some are seen burning to death. A young teenage couple rob several people at gun point, over a montage of brief scenes. “Candy Tangerine Man,” “Lady Cocoa,” and “The Black Six” are currently on the company’s back burners, awaiting DVD transfers in the months ahead. The protagonist brutally stabs his wife to death as she sleeps, this of course wakes her up and her son smothers her face with a pillow and attempts to restrain her -- This scene is very graphic and disturbing, showing several spurts of blood, including a shot of the protagonist slicing his wife's neck. In “Witch…,” Cundey casts waves, sand, and sunsets as harbingers of a paternal influence gone perverted and rancid. By She then dies of blood loss as well. The murder and the aftermath, in which the traumatized teenaged boy comes to term with what he has done, can be very emotional and hard to watch. Add Image. It’s unclear exactly when witches came on the historical scene, but one of the earliest records of a witch is in the Bible in the book of 1 Samuel, thought be written between 931 B.C. Despite his being lost at sea nearly twenty years ago, Molly holds onto the hope that this paternal influence is still alive. Certification: Australia:R18+ Canada:18+ (Quebec) Chile:18; France:16; Germany:18; South Korea:18; United Kingdom:18; United States:Not Rated; Sex & Nudity.
The Witch Who Came from the Sea (1976) Photo Gallery. A woman is briefly raped, the attackers testicles are sliced off, blood is pouring out from his scrotum, this is seen from a far distance.
Like Cundey’ waves forever slapping the shoreline, “Witch…” suggests that this family curse will live on through eternity. This movie is incredibly violent, containing strong, and brutal depictions of graphic frontier violence with bloody injury images. A man encounters an injured cow lying on its side, and mercy kills it with a shotgun. I thought that the movie had never been given proper justice. The subject matter concerns a son being convinced/manipulated by his father into helping kill his own mother. KJ Doughton resurrects reels and breathes life back into films currently on life support and verging on extinction.
Most of these sequences are filled with graphic sound effects such as blades piercing flesh, blood gushing and splattering. Not too explicit, easy to skip. This includes the man's body covered in gory, realistic looking bruises and slashes, as he screams in pain and coughs up blood. As the camera zooms out we see the graphic aftermath of the horses eviscerated corpse. Indeed. A teenaged girl, who is pregnant, is shot in the stomach and states that she can tell her baby has been killed. A few other mild sexual references - one man in particular makes a very crude gesture of him wanting a woman with 'big tits'. Is this twisted duality – both a drooling admiration of rippling manflesh and a murderous rage against all things masculine – a product of childhood trauma? The film deals with extremely dark and disturbing themes. Cimber leaves no doubt as to why Molly is damaged goods, and how her warped nature came to be. “When I first saw ‘The Witch who came from the Sea,’ I didn’t like it. Faster than you can say Electra complex, football-playing celebrities are having family jewels extracted and throats slashed. The Parents Guide items below may give away important plot points.
A man is shot from a far distance, we think that it's Glass but it's the captains dead body, his dead body was used as a trap for another character, we see a large blood stain on his chest. When they were three, the Moirai were: Clotho (/ ˈ k l oʊ θ oʊ /, Greek Κλωθώ, [klɔːtʰɔ̌ː], "spinner") spun the thread of life from her distaff onto her spindle.Her Roman equivalent was Nona ("the ninth"), who was originally a goddess called upon in the ninth month of pregnancy. But whether it’s great acting or simply a fortunate casting choice is impossible to decipher. | Derogatory terms for Native Americans are often used (tree niggers). We see Glass's back is covered in gangrene and scars in two scenes. With long, sustained shots, the violence is quite strong. Then, I saw it in Cinemascope and figured that Matt was a really smart filmmaker who knew exactly what he was doing. We see his dead body covered in pools of blood floating in a river. Paging Dr. Freud! This is shown in fairly vivid detail and is highly bloody and disturbing. Certain scenes are hard to watch purely for these reasons. The show that celebrates the best in independent film! An attack on a frontier camp by Native Americans transpires. Edit . Plot Summary A main characters entire head is scalped, we see the bloody top of his skull. If you share Hill’s enthusiasm for Cimber’s directorial approach, take solace in Subversive’s plans to release more of the filmmaker’s titles. Special features include an audio commentary with Cundey, Cimber, and Perkins. Storyline. Primarily used by Tom Hardy's character.
The man finally manages to stab the bear on the head, killing it, blood then spills out of the bears head. Refine All Photos By. A man's buttocks are partially seen in one scene, although it isn't intended to be sexual. The gun is next to him. A horse falls off a cliff and loses its head after it impacts the ground, lots of blood and a few guts are seen. We see the aftermath of a man's hand being severely bitten by a rat.
We initially meet Molly on the beach. The film’s restored, 16:9 widescreen format boasts huge, sweeping shots of beachfront waves that bookmark “Witch…” and lend an epic touch to its low-budget trappings. The cow is not seen after the fall, but its cries which can be heard from the bottom of the well may be upsetting to animal lovers.
The horse is then graphically eviscerated. Sex & Nudity.
A man is forcibly buried while he's alive.
the Witch and the Wardrobe. “He’s one of my favorite directors,” Hill gushes of Cimber, who, according to the Internet Movie Database, was once married to blonde sex symbol Jayne Mansfield. A man sleeps inside a horse for warmth, as he exits the horses body, he is covered in blood and guts. Like startled beachcombers stumbling onto a bloated whale carcass, viewers of 1976’s “The Witch who came from the Sea” will not easily shake this film’s uniquely tainted imagery. Unsettling, unmarketable, unlikable films like “Witch…” also work on another level. A child is stabbed twice. “The Witch who came from the Sea” starts out like friendly family fodder. Molly’s sailor father has forever infected the family bloodline with a slug’s trail of madness. CINEMA CPR: "THE WITCH WHO CAME FROM THE SEA", 2010 PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL SHORTFEST ANNOUNCES LINEUP. | May 11, 2006. Type.
Millie Perkins, perhaps best known for her star turn in 1959’s “The Diary of Anne Frank,” stars as Molly, a middle-aged, coast-inhabiting bartender with two preteen sons. A dead body with a gory wound is seen on a boat for 30 seconds.
A disturbed woman is haunted by memories of childhood abuse, which culminates in a murder spree.
Many scenes portray this through bone-chilling high pitched music or terrifying visuals. Showing all 9 items Jump to: Certification; Sex & Nudity (5) Violence & Gore (1) Profanity (1) Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking (1) Frightening & Intense Scenes (1) Certification.
Very bloody and startling. A man is shot in the shoulder, we see a big blood stain on his shoulder, after that an intense chasing sequence unfolds that includes some strong gunshots. Moviegoers in 1976 who expected the scythe, snake and severed head depicted in the Frank Frazetta-inspired publicity art for THE WITCH WHO CAME FROM THE SEA (Subversive) to actually turn up in the film itself were given at least three reasons to dislike this moody, unsettling psychosexual drama by screenwriter Robert Thom (BLOODY MAMA, DEATH RACE 2000) and director Matt Cimber (known for … But it’s one of the strangest things I’ve ever seen on film (including a recently-screened remaster of “Eraserhead”). Matt’s a pleasure, and his movie are fun. Plot Keywords. Subversive delivers more crimson bells and whistles than even the most encyclopedic movie-geek mind could hope to absorb. The ghost of the protagonist's wife haunts him throughout the 2nd and 3rd acts of the film -- These scenes are terrifying, bloody, and disturbing. Taglines The violence in this movie is pretty frequent, when it appears it is usually extremely graphic, in-your-face, and often very strong. “Witch…” ain’t for the nose-in-the-air art crowd, but it’s definitely an experience you’ll never find at the multiplex. In typical Subversive Cinema tradition, the recently released “Witch…” DVD version gives Cimber’s movie the Rolls Royce, red carpet treatment. During the movie several animal has been killed and eaten, where their corpses are visible. The main character is often shown in great agony as he overcomes crippling wounds, hunger, cold, and pain to find the man who brutally murdered his son and left him for dead. A brutal knife-fight breaks out between two men, in which both participants endure bloody stab wounds and severed body parts, and chopped off limbs featuring a chunk of a mans ear being bitten off and spitten out, towards the end the ground is covered in blood along with the two fighters and two chopped off fingers. Perhaps not even a good one. Synopsis In-depth movie review, featured posts, and advertisements.