Night Of The Eagle 1962 DivX-NvadR torrent

Night.Of.The.Eagle.1962.DivX-NvadR
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056279/

Norman Taylor is a psychology professor at Hempnell Medical College covering
topics of superstitious beliefs throughout the ages. He later finds out his
wife, Tansy, is secretly engaged in witchery after discovering various mystical
paraphernalia about his home. She states that these objects are protection from
those who wish him harm. Disbelieving, he forces her to burn her primitive
magical accouterments. Immediately thereafter, terrible things begin to happen
to Norman eventually forcing him to rethink his own rational beliefs. He comes
to the terrible realization that someone he knows is a practitioner of black
magic and that they fully intend on killing both him and his wife.


This strikingly well made British chiller is based on the novel, Conjure Wife by
Fritz Leiber. It benefits from a hauntingly taut script by Richard Matheson and
Charles Beaumont (and a third writer, George Baxt), both whom contributed their
pens to classic episodes of THE TWILIGHT ZONE. Aside from some top tier talent
working on the script, the director had previously helmed the trashy color film,
CIRCUS OF HORRORS (1960) a few years earlier. This was a stark contrast when
compared to the meticulously handled B/W horror of NIGHT OF THE EAGLE which,
apparently, was inspiration to Dario Argento for his SUSPIRIA (1977).


What makes Hayers film stand out above many others is that it isn\'t strictly a
horror film, but also a psychological terror tale. It isn\'t until the last half
that the supernatural elements take precedence. Norman Taylor is a pompous, yet
logical man who believes in what is tangible and explainable through science. In
his modern world, there\'s no room for oldeworld eccentricities and the primitive
practices of frightened, uncivilized people. How totally shocked and taken aback
he is when he discovers his wife dabbles in sorcery and wears talismans.


Rebuking her stance that his success and wealth are due to her protection through
magic, Taylor nonetheless pushes Tansy to burn all her artifacts despite her insistent trepidation. By the end of the film, his previous declaration of \"I do not believe\" etched onto the chalkboard in his classroom is inadvertently changed to \"I do believe\" when he backs against the board out of fear when chased by a giant eagle during the
finale.


Hayers movie bears similarities to other choice B/W demonic horror movies of the time such as Jacques Tourneur\'s NIGHT OF THE DEMON (1957) and John Llewellyn Moxey\'s CITY OF THE DEAD (1960). The former with its foreboding fear of the unknown and the tangible presence of evil in the form of a terrifying demonic beast parallels the giant eagle summoned through black magic in Hayers movie. The latter is similar in its structure and several characters, although Moxey\'s movie is more preoccupied with being drenched in eerie atmosphere than the densely plotted exposition of the Hayers picture.


Distributed in America through AIP under the more widely known aka of BURN, WITCH, BURN! (1963), that title is a line of dialog spoken late in the movie. It\'s also a line uttered in an energetic fashion by Christopher Lee in the previously mentioned CITY OF THE DEAD (1960). There\'s also some excellent lighting here that accentuates the peculiar and frequent sense of dread that culminates in a well shot and tense ending sequence wherein Taylor is accosted by a giant eagle from hell. Peter Wyngarde (he was Klytus in FLASH GORDON) is the lead among a cast of skeptics and mystics. He commands the screen as the protagonist and everyone else are quite mesmerizing in their portrayals.


This is a seldom discussed horror thriller that deserves far more recognition and a film that is one of the best films to deal with the subject of witchcraft and the occult.

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Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 700 MiB
Duration : 1h 23mn
Overall bit rate : 1 176 Kbps
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Height : 352 pixels
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Codec ID : 2000
Duration : 1h 23mn
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Channel positions : L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Stream size : 66.7 MiB (10%)
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