A forerunner to the wave of folk horror to follow, this underrated Hammer horror stars Joan Fontaine.

Fontaine plays a young school teacher who takes up a post in the sleepy English village of Heddaby.

The idyllic facade of country life is slowly stripped back as she uncovers a secretive occult group bent on making a sacrificial offering.

Part of our Curses, Cults & Covens: The Birth of British Folk Horror season, screening throughout May.

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