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| Durée | 59 minutes |
| Année de sortie | 1964 |
| Genre | Horror |
| Pays |  - United States |
| Réalisation | Larry Buchanan |
| Scénario | Larry Buchanan |
Présentation
The Naked Witch is a color, regional 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.
The Naked Witch was financed by a Texan drive-in theater owner who wanted a movie with much nudity, but the actual amount of nudity in the film is negligible. The film was considered to be a success, bringing in box office receipts of $80,000 and helping to launch Buchanan's career.
The film is often confused with another regional movie, also titled The Naked Witch (aka The Naked Temptress), a lost film directed by Andy Milligan in New Jersey in 1967.
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Synopsis
A university student (Robert Short) is researching his thesis on the "thoroughly German" villages of modern-day central Texas. He's on his way to Luckenbach - where people speak German more often than English - when his car runs out of gas. He walks into town and meets Kirska Schöennig (Jo Maryman), who takes him to the Schöennig Inn, the hotel run by her grandfather, Hans. While none of the older residents of the town will talk to the student about the "Luckenbach Witch," Kirska loans him a book about her.
Learning from the book that the witch is buried near the inn, the student goes to the cemetery and opens her shallow grave by hand. He removes from her mummified remains the spike that was driven through her. After he returns in haste to the inn, she rises naked from her grave, quite intact and intent on taking revenge on the Schöennigs, the descendants of her lover, the married man who denounced her as a witch a century earlier.
The witch steals the stake and goes to the bedroom of Kirska. She rips Kirska's nightgown off her and puts it on before setting out in search of the other two remaining Schöennigs, Hans and Franz. She quickly dispatches them both. The student finds the witch bathing nude in a creek and falls under her spell. But after spending the night with her, he snaps out of it and decides that it is his responsibility to stop her.
As the witch magically summons Kirska to the graveyard, the student rushes in and struggles with the witch. She falls upon the stake, dead again.
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Magic - 26 juin 2021
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