
About
Following a nervous breakdown, Gwen takes up the job of head teacher in the small village of Haddaby. There she can benefit from the tranquillity and peace, enabling her to recover fully. But under the facade of idyllic country life she slowly unearths the frightening reality of village life in which the inhabitants are followers of a menacing satanic cult with the power to inflict indiscriminate evil and death if crossed.
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6.1/10

Wuchak
_**Pastoral drama/mystery starts and ends with witchy horror**_ A schoolteacher who had been traumatized by witchdoctors as a missionary in Africa (Joan Fontaine) gets a gig at a remote English vil... read more
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Cast

Joan Fontaine
Gwen Mayfield

Kay Walsh
Stephanie Bax

Alec McCowen
Alan Bax

Ann Bell
Sally Benson

Ingrid Boulting
Linda Rigg

John Collin
Dowsett

Michele Dotrice
Valerie Creek

Gwen Ffrangcon Davies
Granny Rigg

Duncan Lamont
Bob Curd

Leonard Rossiter
Dr. Wallis

Martin Stephens
Ronnie Dowsett

Carmel McSharry
Mrs. Dowsett

John Barrett
Mr. Glass

Rudolph Walker
Mark
Willie Payne
Adam
Kitty Atwood
Mrs. McDowall

Bryan Marshall
Tom

Shelagh Fraser
Mrs. Creek

Viola Keats
Mrs. Curd
Director
Cyril Frankel
Director
Creator

Nigel Kneale
Writer
Norah Lofts
Novel