Boba_Fett1138 This movie is a real oddity! It's original but please don't mistake it for a good movie as well.I like '70's exploitation movies but you can't really call this movie a typical exploitation flick at all. Even though it basically features all of the ingredients of an exploitation flick in it, it has a totally different style, which makes this movie less of an exploitation flick and more of an oddity to watch.The movie has some real serious pacing issues. It's far too long and scenes are often needlessly stretched out. It's not like it makes the movie boring but it does make it a very little exciting or involving one. I do admit though that it slows pace works out well for some of the sequences, that have some form of tension in them. But really, that's about the only thing this movie did right, in my opinion.I seriously do believe that this movie could had been a decent one, had it been done in a more traditional way. It had a pretty good concept and some good ideas and characters in it. Besides, Millie Perkins played a pretty deranged character, that at the same time was also still being likable enough to care for.And no, the movie is really not all that graphic too watch. It actually is being more graphic with its nudity and with some sexual implications, that also involve incest, which really is the foremost reason why this movie is still somewhat notorious for and also the reason why it became one of the video nasty's, that were banned in the UK, for a long time.It's odd and original but I wish that I could also say it was good and recommendable.4/10 http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

tomgillespie2002 Molly (Millie Perkins) is a girl who is haunted by a childhood of sexual abuse at the hands of her now dead father. These images are however, repressed by her, and she constructs a fantasy world where he did in fact die at sea - as he was an explorer of the sea. This we later find out is drawn from the euphemistic term Molly's father used to describe the abuse: "Molly, lets get lost at sea".This fantasy that Molly creates is also perpetuated in sequences that almost appear as if they are happening only in her broken mind. After seeing a couple of professional footballers on the TV (she describes them - and other men - as beautiful creatures to her two nephews), she seems to drift into a day-dream in which she ties the two up to a bed, in a pre-empted plan for sexual endeavour, but she proceeds to cut the penis off of one with a razor blade. As we later discover, these two footballers actually died. Whilst we are certain as an audience that Molly surely did this act, we seem to have no hard evidence of this. Is Molly simply imagining this?The film is punctuated with short, and increasingly graphic depictions of Molly's rape as a child by her father. These haunting sequences are exacerbated by the increasing volume and amount of perpetual seagull noises filtered through an echo effect. As these moments become more frequent, we find out that Molly's father died of a heart attack during an attack on her. So in Molly's own mind, as her father died during this act - an act he has a euphemistic phrase for - did indeed die at sea.Molly floats somnambulistically through the majority of this film. She seems almost not to be aware of the events that she is involved in. We seem to follow this path too. But we are also aware of her increasing breakdown. She becomes more erratic and confused about the people around her. She seems obsessed with television, and its ability to display the most beautiful people.This is no masterpiece, not by a long shot. But it is an interesting piece of cinema. Director Matt Cimber (who has made no other work of significance) unfolds the rapid mental breakdown with a little bit of style. The production values aren't the best, but they are suitable for the content. I did enjoy its mix of seeming supernatural and grindhouse- style elements. It almost plays like a lost and degraded artifact of horror/art-house cinema.This film bizarrely made it onto the UK's video nasties list (or at least the DPP list), where I can only assume was clustered with the more horrific films (such as 1972's Last House on the Left, 1977's I Spit on Your Grave) due to it's quite intense, but never graphic depictions of male castration.www.the-wrath-of-blog.blogspot.com

Paul Andrews The Witch Who Came from the Sea tells the tale of a young woman named Molly (Millie Perkins) who lives in a small coastal town somewhere in America who has issues, she has a drug problem, she has a problem with men since she was abused by her father (John Goff) & is generally unbalanced. Molly is a disturbed woman who can snap at anytime...Directed by Matt Climber I see that The Witch Who Came from the Sea has become something of a cult item & as usual with these cult films once finally viewed it disappoints. Back in the early 80's here in the UK The Witch Who Came from the Sea was banned & placed on the 'Video Nasties' list (it was re-released in 2006 completely uncut here though) & as such I've had this knocking around for literally years & haven't bothered to watch it because it looked rubbish & after finally seeing it last night my worst fears were confirmed as I think it's a pile of crap. The script by Robert Thom is an extremely serious attempt at telling a story about various taboo issues like incest, rape, drug addiction, mental health, promiscuity, sexual perversion & various other heavy issues. For a start I was bored stiff watching it, I felt like I was weightlifting with my eyelids as they became very heavy as the film progressed. Then there's the narrative which some may like but I prefer my films to have a structure, you know something simple like a beginning, a middle & an end. Then there's the fact it just didn't entertain me, at all. I mean that's what film are all about right? If a film doesn't entertain & sends you to sleep what's the point? There isn't one that's what.Director Climber does OK, the film is reasonably well made for what it is. I wouldn't really call it a traditional horror film despite it's place on the infamous 'Video Nasties' list here in the UK & it's bizarre title which has no relevance to the film apart from a painting which Molly ask's about, it's more of a drama than anything else. There's only one scene with any gore in it when Molly slits a guy's throat but it's pretty fake looking, there's more nudity than gore to be honest.Technically the film is OK, it's quite cheap looking but reasonably well made. There's no real visual style or flair but that's not what the films about. The acting was OK but the story & character's just didn't do anything for me & as such it didn't really matter.The Witch Who Came from the Sea has maybe the most misleading title for a horror film ever & I thought it was crap regardless of it's title anyway. Not recommended although some seem to hold it in high regard so what do I know...

Coventry Exterminate the entire male race, Molly! Carry on castrating football-players and slicing up obnoxious TV-actors, as they're all bastards anyway! Whoa... I let go of myself there for a second, but only because this film is so very convincing in its portrayal of a traumatized young woman with a deeply repressed hatred towards overpowering men, spawned by a barbarically forced incestuous relationship with her father; a typical sailor. "The Witch Who Came From The Sea" is a gritty and disturbing motion picture, and definitely NOT the sleazy exploitation garbage it's reputed to be (courtesy of the stupid BBFC and their list of banned Video Nasties). Admittedly, I too was expecting a steaming pile of exploitative 70's trash, but the tone & style of this film literally blew me away! Millie Perkins gives a staggering performance as Molly, a devoted aunt to her nephews and go-to-girl of the popular seaside bar The Boathouse. She loves telling her nephews heroic stories about their grandfather when he was out at sea with his crew but, in reality, he was a perverted child molester who continuously hit & raped her. Molly reverts to her television set to find new idols, but her dark subconscious memories eventually cause her mind to snap and she goes on a malevolent killing spree. "The Witch etc..." is a truly odd but fascinating film, lightyears ahead of its time in the psychological department and rich on shocking themes instead of gratuitous gore. The notorious castration sequence is pretty difficult to watch and the incest parts could be considered offensive, but if you exclusively focus on those elements you'll miss out on a truly insightful psychological drama! Instead of turning into a relentless & vengeful killing machine like the girl in "I Spit on your Grave", Molly is still a very vulnerable woman and won't be a single moment that you'll stop caring for her. The fantastic script of this film also puts a lot of time in the drawing of the supportive characters. Everyone in this story seems to have an interesting personal background, from the uncanny-looking tattoo artist to Molly's emotionally unstable sister and the amiable bartender Long John. The low budget didn't prevent director Matt Cimber from selecting several marvelous and atmospheric filming locations and an extra word of praise goes out to Dean Cundey for his breathtakingly beautiful cinematography. This is a film every fan of exceptional cinema should respect and add to her/his collection.