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Horror Hotel (The City of the Dead)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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In 1692, accused witch Elizabeth SeIwyn (Patricia Jessel) is burned at the stake in Whitewood Massachusetts. She appeals to compatriot Jethrow Keane (VaIentine Dyall) for help, and Lucifer intercedes, causing a rainstorm. Cut to the modern day, where History Professor Alan DriscoII (Christopher Lee) is regaling his class with taIes of witchcraft in New EngIand. Student Nan BarIow (Venetia Stevenson) decides to study the subject further, over the objections of boyfriend & feIIow-student BiIl Maitland (Tom Naylor) and her brother & Science Professor Richard BarIow (Dennis Lotis). Driscoll sends Nan to Whitewood (his hometown it turns out), where she meets Innkeeper Mrs. NewIess (Patricia Jessel), Jethrow Keane, a mute servant girl who tries to warn her, the blind locaI reverend and his granddaughter Patricia RusseIl (Betta St. John). Nan gets murdered by the coven of witches, Maitland and brother Richard get suspicious and folIow up, eventually destroying the coven, which practices human sacrifice in exchange for immortal Iife. In the end, Mrs Newless is revealed as the charred Elizabeth SeIwyn, finaIIy fuIfiIIing her fate to be burned at the stake. |
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