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During a witch hunt three women are executed.  The third places a curse that in three hundred years her revenge will be extracted on the progeny of the men responsible.  Three hundred years pass and three women seperately arrive in the town and face the ignorance of the small town's people who do not seem to have learned anything from the past, nor grown any into the modern world.  They own televisions, and drive cars, but beyond this veneer they are still backwards and superstitous.  Donald Pleasence is Dr. Warley the town physician who knows that curses are real.  Suzanna Love is a teacher who finds out just how much Devonsville hasn't changed when she arrives and becomes singled out as a harbinger of the curse. Will history repeat itself or is Dr. Warley living proof that justice will be met?

The Devonsville Terror.  What can I say?  Witches. Were they real?  How were they treated?  This film delves lightly into these topics in the opening moments of the film.  For itself it answers yes at least one or two were real.  It also answers they were treated beyond horrendously.  We have two very interesting executions, and one standard text book execution of burning at the stake.  The first execution style I am aware of, but the second and the most disturbing to see was a completely new one to me.  Yes it's the wagon wheel (in case I have them out of order of appearance).

The exterior locations and natural lighting in The Devonswille Terror are to die for.  This film screams "rural New England state horror".  The plot is a little rough in spots, and it lacks in long standing horror but makes up for it with dementedness.  This one knows sick and twisted but don't expect it from the special effects, or the witches; expect it from the townspeople and the real people they are inspired by.

 Donald Pleasence does have good taste in horror beyond taking on his role in the Halloween franchise.  His part is complex with a backstory that must be complicated, or entirely bogus.  His relationship as town Doctor drives the plot forward as he plays his instrumental role in fulfilling the chilling prophecy.   The only other name in the film is Suzanna Love who plays a new teacher moving into the area who becomes embroiled in the plot, and is actually the star of the film.

( Thank you for reading my review.
Bob Male)

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