Well ya know if there’s anything better than watching a surreal 70’s horror jam, it’s watching another one the same evening, amiright? 

I watch most of these movies and really have no idea how they came to exist. Like, how did these movies get dreamed up because they had to have been dreamed, through either sleep or drugs or both, but there is no way that these surreal 70’s horror jams got written on nothing more than a venti mocha with no whip because all the whipping cartridges were inhaled by people writing movies like this do you know what I’m saying here?

Actually, the base plot line is pretty simple and has nothing to do with witches rising out…

This is one of the many films on the Video Nasty list that makes you question why it's actually on there? The Witch Who Came from the Sea is a grimey seventies flick, but it is lacking in any shocking gore scenes. Instead, we get a drama focusing on a young women, who suffered childhood trauma, which is now manifesting in her adult life. Millie Perkins takes the lead role and is really good in it. The film moves in a relaxed way and is very involving. The very dark themes just kind of wash over you gently, which just makes it even darker if anything! The film is rich with symbolism - Venus, mermaids, the ocean etc - but…

From the poster I went in expecting a more stylish 70s art house slasher. Big mistake emotionally. Instead this is a tragic internal portrait of a dissociated woman Molly told through fractured emotion, dream logic, and symbolism. A murderous story that surpisingly has hope and love around, but it always seems like it is impossible for Molly to ever embrace again.

There are acts to regain a feeling of power. Demasculating murders set to a similar score from Psycho, getting a mermaid chest tattoo, drowning out her abusive father's voice with the sound of waves crashing in the ocean. They say "Venus was born in the sea" while she dances around life in a drunken haze. But there is never…

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The reputation this movie has really does it a huge disservice. Going off the cover art, the censorship issues it had, and the reputation of the whole thing, I was expecting some grade-A schlock. This is totally the opposite. A thought provoking story of child abuse, sexual abuse, and a deep look at the P.T.S.D. that follows. All of this is filmed with a calm and controlled hand, not made to shock, and with an amazing dream-like cinematography. Sure, there are some killings throughout, but nothing I would call explicit. The way this movie got demonized and censored is a crying shame.

Millie Perkins plays Molly, the victim of a abusive, rapist father. The majority of the…

Don’t be fooled by that poster—this isn’t the supernatural gore-fest that the film evidently tried to market itself as. Sadly, our female protagonist doesn’t transform into a Medusan enchantress who rises out of the waves to entrance and decapitate her victims with a scythe. In fact, there is very little gore to speak of here at all (though it does feature in small doses). Instead, this is very much a psychological affair, built around Millie Perkins’ character, Molly—an alcoholic, sexually repressed bartender who struggles to deal with the traumas of her past. Molly seems to be in an almost permanent half-daze; prone to short-term memory loss and long bouts of daydreaming—her mind often conjuring up depraved, sadomasochistic encounters between her…

“I’m a loooony bittttch? Huh-hah-hah-hah.”

The Woman with the Mermaid Tattoo. Written as a pay the medical bills vehicle for Millie Perkins by then-husband Robert Thom, The Witch Who Came from the Sea accidentally offers a hypnotic passion project blend of feminist horror, batshit comedy and raw repulsion. The kind of flick that is both highly enjoyable and highly unenjoyable moment to moment in harmonious 70sness.

Perkins’s Anne Frank/Audrey Hepburn II days are long gone by this point, rocking Late Stage Crawford and Grindhouse Queen at once as our murderous barmaid dealing with a traumatic past one castration at a time. Molly is a tragic figure portrayed in the most psychotronic way possible, Perkins mixing very real notes of pain,…