The Naked Witch

The Naked Witch (1960)

She had the Body of a Goddess and the Soul of a Witch.

A student researching the German settlements of Central Texas unearths the grave of a reputed witch. The witch (who happens to be both beautiful and naked) rises from her grave and embarks on a campaign of seduction and murder against the descendants of her persecutors. It's up to the student to stop her bloody reign of terror-if he can resist the seductive powers of her evil beauty.

Date of release
1960-01-01
TMDB
3.4 / 10 (23)
Runtime
59m
Genres
Horror, Thriller
Director
Claude Alexander, Larry Buchanan

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Central Texas

The Naked Witch is a 1964 American horror film produced by Claude Alexander, and written and directed by Larry Buchanan. It stars Libby Hall, Robert Short and Jo Maryman. The film was shot in 1960 and has a copyright date of 1961 but was not released until 1964. It tells the story of a university student who travels to Texas, where he inadvertently restores a dead witch to life. She then takes revenge on the Schöennig family, one of whom, her lover, had denounced her a century earlier. The student falls under the spell of the witch but recovers in time to save Kirska, the only remaining Schöennig, before he himself kills the witch again.

Production

The Naked Witch was shot in Luckenbach, Texas on a budget of $8,000. It falls into film critic Brian Albright's category of a regional film as one that is "(a) filmed outside the general professional and geographical confines of Hollywood; (b) produced independently; and (c) made with a cast and crew made up primarily of residents of the states in which the film was shot."

The film begins not with the first scene of the plot, but rather with a "lengthy narration about the history of witchcraft," dramatically voiced over by an uncredited Gary Owens.

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