Wordiezett So much average

Tayloriona Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Claudio Carvalho The wicked and powerful magistrate Lord Edward Whitman (Vincent Price) is a witch hunter with his cruel sons Sean (Stephan Chase), Burke (Michael Elphick) and Bully Boy (Andrew McCulloch) in a small village in England. His wife Lady Patricia Whitman (Essy Persson) is deranged with the wickedness of Edward. His daughter Maureen (Hilary Heath) is secretly in love with her stepbrother Roderick (Patrick Mower), who was an orphan found by Edward wandering on the fields.Edward's son Harry (Carl Rigg) returns home after graduating in the university with Father Tom (Marshall Jones) that is assigned to the local parish and he is surprised with the behavior of his father and brothers. Edward hunts down the witch Oona (Elizabeth Bergner) and her harmless followers and kills many of them. Oona summons Satan seeking revenge against Edward and the Whitman family. Satan's emissary surprisingly is Roderick, who has power to control animals and was born by fire. Will Roderick be capable to harm his foster family?"Cry of the Banshees" is a cruel horror movie one of the best performances of Vincent Price in the role of a cruel magistrate. The sets and costumes are realistic and a good replica of a medieval village. The creature looks like a werewolf and not a banshee. Oona's followers seem to be in a bacchanal and not worshiping the devil. The plot begins showing the cruelties of Edward and his sons with the poor women in the name of God but in the end it seems to support their abusive behavior showing the victims as Satanists. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): Not Available

Witchfinder General 666 Gordon Hessler's "Cry Of The Banshee" of 1970 is certainly one of the weaker films with the great Vincent Price, but it is still a pretty good horror flick, and certainly way underrated. I must add, however, that Vincent Price is my favorite actor of all-time and my personal opinion is that you can never go wrong with a film with Price in the lead.Price stars as Lord William Whitman, a sadistic despot in Elizabethean England, who wants to terminate superstitious beliefs by brutally massacring followers of the 'old religion', a bizarre hippie-style witch cult lead by an old woman called Oona (Elisabeth Bergner). Lord Whitman, who lives in his castle with his kind-hearted daughter Maureen (Hillary Heath) his sadistic son Harry (Carl Rigg), his wife, Lady Patricia (Essy Persson), and Roderick, a young man whom the despotic lord let live with his family since childhood, shows no mercy when it comes to the persecution of the pagans living in the woods, and brutal oppression is the everyday situation in his town, where people are tortured and killed for the simple suspicion of being followers of Oona's cult.Some parts of the movie remind a lot of Michael Reeves' masterpiece "Witchfinder General" of 1968, which also had Price in the lead and which is, of course, incomparably better than "Cry Of The Banshee". Besides Price, the movie also stars Hillary Heath, who also played the female lead in "Witchfinder General". Price is excellent as always, and Heath also delivers a good performance as his daughter. The rest of the acting differs, some performances are better, some worse, but they're certainly not terrible. The movie certainly has a few pretty cheesy moments, but it has at least as many creepy ones. Although the violence in this movie is not comparable to the violence in "Witchfinder General", the movie has some pretty brutal moments and some nudity, which gives the film a nice Exploitation feeling."Cry Of The Banshee" is certainly not one of the masterpieces with Vincent Price, but it is certainly not as bad as many seem to regard it. I personally found it very enjoyable, it definitely has some creepy moments, and I warmly recommend it to fans of Horror flicks and Vincent Price. 7/10

wildpeace10 While i'm interested in seeing every horror movie vincent price has ever made,i happened to search for other American movies featuring actress Essy persson(which i liked in the foreign science fiction film MISSION STARDUST)and that's how i discovered this film.It does have a similar subject as Vincent price's other witches hunter film WITCHFINDER GENERAL but as unsatisfying as that one was,CRY OF THE BANSHEE is even worst.The violence(consisting of people getting blooded by a mostly unseen beast)is dull and repulsive and the nudity (Essy doesn't get naked in anyway in this film)isn't that great either.Most of the personnalities are unsympathetic and some of the dialogue is terrible.If this wasn't a presold product,it's doubtful that it would even have had a theater run.They say making movies is hard but when you look at the final result of this film,you can easily think that anybody could have made a film like this.

Jonathon Dabell The title is probably the most interesting thing about this competent but totally undistinguished horror flick, in which Vincent Price returns to Witchfinder General (aka Conqueror Worm) territory. Other than frequent flashes of nudity, Cry Of The Banshee has a dated air to it and feels very much like one of the films Roger Corman's team was turning out in the early '60s. It is nearly always a pleasure to watch (and listen to) Price, mainly because he manages to bring great charisma to his characters even when they're rotten to the core. In this one his performance as Lord Edward Whitman is as polished as usual, but the character is so thoroughly dislikable - so totally free of sympathy or compassion - that not even an actor as charismatic as Price can make him appealing to the viewer.In Elizabethan England, a wicked magistrate named Lord Edward Whitman (Vincent Price) is obsessed with finding and tracking down those who practise witchcraft. However, Whitman has a nasty habit of abusing his own position of power – quite often, he falsely accuses pretty young peasant women of witchery and has them beaten, stripped and humiliated for the private entertainment of himself and his family. Unsuspectingly, Lord Whitman actually stumbles upon a REAL coven of witches, led by the powerful but mostly peaceful Oona (Elisabeth Bergner). After subjecting them to his usual brand of torment and degradation, he has all the witches killed apart from Oona herself. Later, Oona summons the titular banshee so that it can work its way through Whitman's family circle, killing off his odious relatives until only he remains. The banshee manifests itself in the guise of a handsome young man named Roderick (Patrick Mower), who manoeuvres his way into the Whitman household and makes them pay with their lives for the terror they have brought upon so many innocent people….The film opens with a surprisingly imaginative titles sequence which is the work of Monty Python alumnus Terry Gilliam. It is sad that little of that imagination is to be found in the remainder of the film. Gordon Hessler directs in routine fashion, moving the proceedings along in a workmanlike but rarely enthralling manner. The supporting performances are generally OK, given that the script is made up of standard characters and situations (having said that, the film's climactic "twist" is admittedly well handled, with a satisfying and rather creepy sting in the tail). Cry Of The Banshee is hardly the stuff of classic horror – there are better horror movies, there are better Vincent Price movies, and there are better movies about witch-hunting – but on the whole it is passable fare. Those who like old-school chillers in the Hammer Horror/Roger Corman style will probably find this an entertaining time-filler.