Necromancy

4/9/2022

_**Occult-oriented flick starring Pamela Franklin and Orson Welles**_ A young couple from Los Angeles (Pamela Franklin & Michael Ontkean) gets an offer they can’t refuse and move to a town several hours up north. But why does the dubious mogul of the exclusive community (Orson Welles) want them so bad? Something sinister is going on. "Necromancy" was made in 1970, but not released until 1972 (although copyrighted 1971). It combines elements of “Carnival of Souls” (1962), “Rosemary’s Baby” (1968) and “The Devil Rides Out” (1968); plus it would influence the future “Satan’s School for Girls” (1973). In some ways it’s better than those films and in others worse. For one thing, the editing is sometimes off-kilter or inconsistent, especially in the first half, which I don’t know i