HAMMER HOUSE OF HORROR - "Witching Time" - 1980

Here's the first episode from this one season Hammer series, it's all about a witch that time travels to the future to cause lots of insanity!

This one stars Jon (FRENZY) Finch, Prunella (NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN) Gee, Patricia (THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW) Quinn and Ian (I, MONSTER) McCullock.

It starts with Prunella (Mary) losing her clothes just before she's killed by an intruder. Like what the heck, she's the star, how come she's already dead?!

Here's her husband David, he's talking to her on the phone and wants to know when she'll be home from the shoot of the movie she's starring in... Probable tomorrow.

David thinks that Mary is having an affair with the director, but, she's actually having one with their personal doctor.

That night during an electrical storm David finds a woman named Lucinda, and she claims to be a witch from a few hundred years ago, and was born on the property. David has to show her all the modern devices and how they work to calm her down.

He ends up locking her in a bedroom and has his 'friend' Charles, the doctor, come over and see her, but, she's gone. Did he imagine it all?

When Mary finally arrives home, she finds David in a weird state, and he has deep fingernail scratches on his back.

Then they find a decapitated crow on their bed, David takes it outside and begins to bury it. When he strikes the dead crow with the shovel, he see's Mary in the grave with a cut on her face. David is starting to go over the edge.

Then Mary has a few bad things happen to her, like almost being hit with a bust knocked off the ledge while she's on the stairs.

And, she blames David, she tells him that he's trying to kill her, and starts packing to leave.

All Hell breaks loose, things are flying around the room while Lucinda's voice laughs at them. Finally, Mary believes his story of the witch!

Mary takes her horse and rides to speak to a cleric about the situation, and while she's away, the mice will play!

Lucinda has made a voodoo doll of Mary and stuck nails in a number of places on her body! Believe me, Mary had s ton of fun pulling them all out, but the pains are gone.

Then David pushes her down the stairs into the cellar where she finds a metal point to help her escape from the room.

David is totally under Lucinda's power and he sees Mary and chases her outside.

After she barely gets David locked in the stable, she goes after Lucinda. She remembered the cleric told her that either fire or water will effect a witch, so, Mary tosses a pail of water in Lucinda's face then drowns her in a water trough!

And, Lucinda's form gets burned in her own planned fire ceremony! There you have it, a wild first episode from Hammer House Of Horror!