Cry of the Banshee

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Cry of the Banshee is a 1970 British horror film starring Vincent Price, blending witchcraft, revenge, and supernatural terror in a grim Elizabethan setting.

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instanceOf British horror film
film
certificate R rating (United States)
cinematographyBy John Coquillon
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
director Gordon Hessler
distributor American International Pictures
editedBy Peter Elliott
era 1970s British horror cinema
featuresElement demonic familiar
rural village persecution
witch coven
genre horror film
period horror film
supernatural horror film
hasHomeMediaRelease Blu-ray
DVD
hasVersion director's cut
theatrical cut
leadActorForCharacter Vincent Price as Lord Edward Whitman
leadCharacter Lord Edward Whitman
mainTheme revenge
supernatural terror
witchcraft
musicBy Wilfred Josephs
notableAspect grim and violent tone
period setting in late 16th-century England
originalLanguage English
plotElement cursed revenge against a cruel lord
summoning of a demonic familiar
witch-hunter nobleman persecuting villagers
posterTagline “Who summoned this horror? Who will be alive to tell?”
producer AIP (American International Pictures)
productionCompany American International Pictures
Tigon British Film Productions
releaseFormat theatrical film
releaseYear 1970
runtime approximately 87 minutes
screenplayBy Christopher Wicking (uncredited revisions)
Tim Kelly
settingPlace England
settingTime Elizabethan era
starring Essy Persson
Hilary Dwyer
Patrick Mower
Vincent Price

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Harry Alan Towers notableWork Cry of the Banshee