If you're a fan of powerful acting, detailed direction, flawless pictorial composition, you've got to see this film. Pacing is slow and deliberate, but also terrifying. Sex, religion and witchcraft are common themes in movies, but rarely has that combination been explored to any psychological depth. Like Bergman's "Seventh Seal" and Miller's "Crucible," "Day of Wrath" transports us back a few hundred years -- where the fear of evil, and Satan in particular, is a daily, obsessive concern. Where otherwise good people can point a finger at an acquaintance or a loved one (or at you) and accuse them (or you) of conspiring with the Devil. A very frightening film.
Review of Day of Wrath
