Superstition (1982 film)

[2][3] In the United Kingdom, the film was banned during the "video nasty" panic, though it would subsequently be released uncut under the title The Witch.

Shortly after, the alcoholic Reverend George, his wife Melinda, and their adolescent children Ann, Sheryl, and Justin move into the house as guests of the church.

On their move-in date, a renovator is killed by a clawed figure who hangs him to death in an elevator shaft inside the home.

David unearths an antique crucifix from the pond, which Elvira claims has kept a witch, executed on the property centuries ago, dormant.

David subsequently unearths a book in the church archives documenting a local inquisition that occurred in 1692, during which Elondra Sharack, a woman accused of murdering a nine-year-old girl named Mary, was executed in the pond by drowning.

While searching the house, Sturgess discovers Arlen hiding in a secret room in the basement, and also uncover the body of the renovator.

Mary appears to him and reveals herself as another form of the witch; David drives the crucifix through her heart and she falls backwards into the pond.

The disturbance seems over, but before David can leave, Elondra's hand erupts from the pond and drags him under water, drowning him.

Superstition was an independent production filmed in 1981 in Silver Lake, Los Angeles[5] under the title The Witch but was shelved until four years later.

[7] This included giving the film a trailer with what he described as "a sense of humor" and having "Brother Theodore do the voice over in order to attract a secondary audience.

Had [it] been cut as effectively as its characters, sliced to say, 70 minutes...  it might have attained, despite its weak script, the lofty level of watchable.

splatflick," adding that director Roberson "invests its low-grade guignol with more urgency than it deserves and I hope he gets a shot at something better.