Horror Hotel
- IMDb link: 0053719
- IMDb rating: 6.7 (9,783 votes) Search
- Genres: Horror, Thriller, Mystery
- Director: John Llewellyn Moxey
- Cast: Patricia Jessel, Dennis Lotis, Christopher Lee, Tom Naylor and others
- Release date: 12 Sep 1962
- Release year: 1960
- Runtime: 76 minutes
- Country: United Kingdom
- Keywords: inn, sacrifice, witch, new england, coven, burned at the stake, research, innkeeper, college student, locket
Plot
Storyline
A young college student arrives in a sleepy Massachusetts town to research witchcraft; during her stay at an eerie inn, she discovers a startling secret about the town and its inhabitants.
On 3 March 1692, in Whitewood, Massachusetts, a witch named Elizabeth Selwyn is sentenced to be burned at the stake, and her partner Jethrow Keane asks Lucifer to save her. About 300 years later, college student Nan Barlow decides to spend her vacation in the town to research witchcraft. Her professor Alan Driscoll suggests Nan to lodge in the Raven's Inn, managed by Mrs. Newless. Once in the village, naive Nan is advised by the local priest, Reverend Russell, to immediately leave the place, where the devil has ruled over for 300 years, but she decides to stay--and finds that she is in a coven of evil witches. Nan vanishes, and the granddaughter of Reverend Russell, Patricia Russell, pays a visit to Nan's skeptical brother Richard Barlow and her boyfriend Bill Maitland, and they decide to follow her steps. Once in New England, they realize that a group of immortal witches must sacrifice two beautiful women per year, one on Candlemans Eve on February 1, and the other on the Witch Sabbath, to stay alive forever, and only the shadow of a cross would be able to destroy them.
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