Hammer House Of Horror - Episode 1 - Witching Time

In an isolated rural farm house a composer believes his wife is having an affair. During a thunderstorm he goes to check on their horse in the barn only to find a strange woman in there looking scared and confused. He brings her in and soon discovers she's the ghost of a witch that used to live there in the 17th century. He soon becomes possessed by her and on her return his wife becomes the target of the witch.

A good first story in this short lived series. Patricia Quinn, Prunella Gee, Jon Finch and Ian McCulloch are all great in their roles and there's some good atmosphere throughout. We also get a surprising amount of nudity and some decent gore too which was quite unusual for TV around this time. 7/10.

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