The Pocket Film of Superstitions

The film is described as a weird and wonderful merging of shades of folk horror, the supernatural with dadaist humour and a quaint British eccentricities that are long gone in the cinema of today.

Cast

Caroline Munro

as The High Priestess

Lynn Lowry

as The Hand Maiden

Shend

as The Narrator

Leila Alexandra

as Dead Woman / Miner's Wife

Imogen Archer

as Changeling Mother

Hannah Batra

as Witches' Coven

Gary Baxter

as The Devil

Jamie-Lee Beacher

as Mrs. Splendid

Rupert Bell

as Mr. Peck

Katie Bennett

as Kitchen Maid

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