#Essy Persson

[weirdlookindog]

Cry of the Banshee (1970)

[beautiesofbygoneeras]

"Therese and Isabel," (1968) starring Essy Persson and Anna Gaël.

[vsthepomegranate]

I, a Woman (1965)

by Mac Ahlberg

[mudwerks]

(via JHALAL DRUT: Essy Persson)

[mythcreant]

The 1970s Witchsploitation classic, Cry Of The Banshee – starring Vincent Price at his most deliciously despicable, as a powerful Elizabethan magistrate who has made witch hunting a career choice – cast a spell in theaters on July 22, 1970.

[abs0luteb4stard]

W A T C H I N G

[elvira-movie-macabre]

Movie Macabre 110 - Cry of the Banshee (1970)

Movie Macabre Season 01 - Episode 10 (010) Original Air Date: 29 November 1981

Cry of the Banshee (1970) Directed by Gordon Hessler Written by Tim Kelly and Christoper Wicking

Starring: Vincent Price Hilary Dwyer Essy Persson Hugh Griffith Elisabeth Bergner

"In 1500s England, a cruel witch-hunting magistrate, who often tortures innocent villagers for his entertainment, runs afoul of a witch who conjures a banshee to kill the magistrate and his family." (IMDb)

Cry of the Banshee was featured on the tenth episode of Elvira's Movie Macabre. Ten episodes into the series and this is already the third film from American International Pictures. This felt like the least competent of the three. 

The film starts with a quote from Edgar Allan Poe's The Bells, and featured Poe's name on the posters. The film itself has nothing at all to do with Edgar Allan Poe's work. They were just trying to cash in on Roger Corman's Poe movies.

Aside from an unexpected opening animated sequence by Terry Gilliam and the charismatic Vincent Price, this movie didn't have much going for it.

I learned after watching the movie that it had some production issues. Director Gordon Hessler reportedly didn't like Tim Kelly's original script. Hessler replaced Kelly with Christopher Wicking. Hessler wanted Wicking to develop the characters further, but AIP was on a tight schedule so there wasn't time. There was a definite sense that many scenes were there just to get the film to 90 minutes. The film could have been 30 minutes long and told the same story with a lot less sexual assault. It didn't even bother to have good atmosphere.

I do enjoy seeing how movies portray "witchcraft."

When I decided to try to watch every movie featured on Elvira's Movie Macabre, I knew there'd be some bad movies. That's the nature of the show. This may be the first one that I'd truly recommend skipping. It's not entirely unwatchable, but there's not much interesting or noteworthy here.

[moviesandmania]

CRY OF THE BANSHEE (1970) Reviews and overview

CRY OF THE BANSHEE (1970) Reviews and overview

‘Edgar Allan Poe probes new depths of terror!’ Cry of the Banshee is a 1970 British horror film about a cruel magistrate who runs afoul of a witch who conjures a banshee to kill him. Directed and executive produced by Gordon Hessler (KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park; Scream Pretty Peggy; Murders in the Rue Morgue; The Oblong Box, Scream and Scream Again) from a screenplay written by Tim Kelly…

[mariocki]

Cry of the Banshee (1970)

"My children... All my children... Why? Why? You'd better kill me too, Edward Whitman, than let me live with this memory!"

"If your sorcery was so strong, Oona, why didn't you use it to save your children, as you call them, eh?"

[higherentity]

[movie--posters]

[beautiesofbygoneeras]

"Therese and Isabel," (1968) starring Essy Persson and Anna Gaël.

[spine-tinglers]

Murderer... Murderer!

Cry of the Banshee (1970) dir. Gordon Hessler

[mudwerks]

(via JHALAL DRUT: Essy Persson & co)

[vsthepomegranate]

Cry of the Banshee (1970)

by Gordon Hessler

[humanoidhistory]

Essy Persson in a lobby card for Mission Stardust (1967)