The Devonsville Terror (1983)
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Ulli Lommel's atmospheric chiller opens with a violent prologue in the 17th-century Colonial town of Devonsville, where a trio of local women are accused of witchcraft by the zealous locals and executed in gory fashion by pitchfork-wielding vigilantes. Flash forward to the present, where the… More Ulli Lommel's atmospheric chiller opens with a violent prologue in the 17th-century Colonial town of Devonsville, where a trio of local women are accused of witchcraft by the zealous locals and executed in gory fashion by pitchfork-wielding vigilantes. Flash forward to the present, where the arrival of three progressive young women ignites the same superstitious paranoia among the current generation of townsfolk -- who perceive their new visitors' arrival as the culmination of an ages-old curse. The pretty new schoolteacher (Suzanna Love), plagued by ominous visions, consults the local psychiatrist (Donald Pleasence), whose hypnotic regression therapy reveals the true nature of her ancestry -- which finally surfaces when a new group of vigilantes begins the inevitable witch-hunt. Moody and well-photographed (Lommel once studied under legendary German auteur (Rainier Werner Fassbinder), this film tends to cloud its basically feminist theme with some rather exploitative gross-out effects -- particularly the depiction of Pleasence's ancestral curse, which has him constantly digging tiny worms from various parts of his body. ~ Cavett Binion, Rovi
- Directed By
- Ulli Lommel
- Genres
- Horror
R,
- In Theaters
- Oct 1, 1983 Wide
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Cast
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Suzanna Love
as Jenny Scanlon
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Robert Walker Jr.
as Mathew Penleton
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Donald Pleasence
as Dr. Warley
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Paul Willson
as Walter Gibbs
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Deanna Haas
as Monica
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Mary Walden
as Chris
- Morrigan Hurt
- Paul Bentzen
- Leslie L. Smith
