![]() Terrified, Lori attempts to locate Frank when he does not return home from work. Later, she is confronted by Priscilla and another cult leader, who inform her she is to take the place of Cato's son during a necromancy ceremony. ![]() The following day, she witnesses an apparition of Cato's son, which lures her into the basement of her home, where she is attacked by a horde of rats. Lori and Frank are invited to a party, whereupon arriving she discovers it is a formal anointment into the town's coven, but she refuses. Cato informs Lori of his pursuit of necromancy, the act of bringing the dead back to life, the one power he claims to have been unable to obtain he also explains to her he believes she holds the key between life and death, and can help him achieve the revival of his dead son. Lori becomes increasingly unnerved when she observes the power Cato exerts over the small town, owning all of its businesses and maintaining influence over its exclusively young residents, all of whom appear to have interests in the occult. ![]() Lori also discovers the house Frank and she have moved into had previously been rented by the woman who died in the car accident. Priscilla, another of Cato's employees, refers to Cato's dead son, whom he believes is merely "resting". Cato, who vaguely explains that Frank's job at the company will involve magic, and gives Lori a grimoire as a gift. Upon arriving in Lilith, Lori and Frank have dinner with his new boss, the eccentric Mr. She wanders into a field and finds a gravestone beneath a tree there, she has a bizarre vision of a young boy's funeral. When their car later runs out of gasoline, Frank walks toward town, and Lori waits at the car. En route, they witness a violent car accident in which an oncoming vehicle swerves off an embankment, killing the female driver. The film was re-released in 1983 under the title The Witching in an alternate cut.Īfter Los Angeles housewife Lori Brandon suffers a stillbirth, her husband Frank obtains a job working in the advertising division of a toy company in the northern California community of Lilith. The plot follows an enigmatic cult leader in a small California town who attempts to harness the powers of a local woman to resurrect his dead son. Gordon and starring Orson Welles, Pamela Franklin, Michael Ontkean, and Lee Purcell. MAN'CY) is a 1972 American supernatural horror film directed by Bert I.
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