10 TERRIFYING Made-For-TV Horror Movies

8. Crowhaven Farm (1970)

The USA will not stop dredging up Salem and those witches, one of America's most compelling yet disturbing chapters in history. Despite that, Crowhaven Farm is quite the surprise. If you can keep your eyes open for the majority of the relentlessly slow build up, the last twenty minutes is the adrenaline shot to the heart that leaves the big impression.

Witches, covens, conspiracies, black magic, murder, torture and reincarnation hit you in waves as the neatly set up balls are confidently walloped into the back of the net by director Walter Grauman (The Twilight Zone).

Maggie and Ben Porter decide to save their marriage by moving into an old farm house in the country. So far, so TV movie, but of course, the weirdness begins when a charming local tells Maggie about Margaret Carey, a woman executed by the pitchfork mob for being a witch some 300 years prior, all of course in Crowhaven Farm.

It begins to fall apart when they eventually adopt a strange local orphan, Jennifer. Maggie becomes pregnant, Ben becomes insanely jealous of a town playboy - and it seems that the village population are all reincarnated diciples of black magic.

If you enjoyed the doctor betrayal plot twist in Rosemary's Baby you'll enjoy this. It's a full blown conspiracy and Maggie falls foul of a plot to destroy her marriage as Ben is driven to murderous rage by paranoia. If you can cope with the production values, the final pay off is a doozy as the bodies begin to pile up...

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