February 13 - 8:45pm

Night of the Eagle (Burn, Witch, Burn)

Sidney Hayers (1961) 87 mins PG

A professor's wife, obsessed with witchcraft, believes she must die in her husband's stead. Scriptwriters Richard (I Am Legend) Mathieson, George Baxt, & Charles Beaumont hone and shape Fritz Leiber's book into a remarkable psychologically ambiguous work. Melding the brooding horror of Dreyer and Lewton, the inspired Hayer builds a portentious atmosphere of superstition through judicious framing & camera movement, producing a taut, genuinely frightening witchcraft chiller.

Imported 35mm print courtesy of the BFI Archive.

Preceded by Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1912) 12mins.

Preceded at 7.00pm by Dracula.