Rent The Witch (1966)

Obsessive - The Witch review by sb

FILM & REVIEW Damiani’s very strange supernatural erotic drama. Johnson plays Sergio who seems to be being followed by a strange old lady dressed in white. He discovers she has placed an ad in the papers for a skills match that is exactly him. Intregued he calls at the address and meets Consuella (Feranti) who offers him a job as librarian to sort her late husbands papers out. It’s revealed the current holder of the post is no good and needs replacing . She drinks a cup of something and falls ill but her daughter appears and says she is fine. The daughter Aurora (Schiaffino) is stunning beautiful and very sensuous and Sergio begins to seduce her but in interrupted by the current librarian Fabrizio(Volonte). Although Aurora seems more than happy with Sergio’s advances she now accuses him of attacking him and says she will always love Fabrizio. A very curious ménage a trios begins as Fabrizio alienates between childishly needful of Aurora to totally controlling. Meanwhile Conseulla continues to manipulate events with the implication that she are Aurora are somehow one and the same person. Then things get very strange indeed… It’s quiet a remarkable film with almost all the events taking place in eerie dust filmed rooms with the light fading in and out between characters and has a true Blimey Charley finale. J Just superb - 5/5