The is an ABC Movie of the Week that scared me to death when I was a kid. I used to get a lot of questions about the movie where the woman “is being pressed to death beneath a plank with rocks placed on it.” This is that film. I was happy to find it on YouTube. Hope you enjoy it, and I hope at least some of you remember it as distinctly as I do.
Description: A young couple inherits a farm. Hoping that the rural location might help to patch up their strained marriage, they move into it, only to be confronted by the supernatural forces that inhabit it.
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Although I was never a big “Movie of the Week” fan, there were a few that definitely stood out from the rest. This one is like an extended episode of Night Gallery. The infamous witch trials of New England in the late 1600s have always fascinated me. This movie reminded me a little of “Horror Hotel” where witches and warlocks come back from the distant past. I can understand how some of the scenes would be disturbing to kids. When this movie was broadcast, I was 17, but I don’t remember this one. Thanks again Mark. Another fine entry leading up to Halloween.
You’re right, Paul. I think a lot of the Movie of the Week films would have seemed blasé as an older teenager. I was 8 years old when this came out, and I relied a lot on “movies of the week” for my horror/sci-fi entertainment as I was too young to go to theaters and watch the movies I really craved. The Movie of the Week was quite a phenomenon with my age group. We had a lot of playground discussions the next day at school after one of these were aired! I even had to promise my parents “not to have nightmares” to be allowed to watch some of these. I’ve been watching a lot of these lately, and it’s fun to see some of the old horror stars and familiar TV character actors pop up in them. Between the Movie of the Week and Creature Feature, I maintained my horror fix until I was old enough to go to the theater on my own.