The How do you picture a witch, a catling crone with a hooked nose on a broomstick, a sexy seductive

temptress, a gothy teenage outsider, or a prim, elegant domestic goddess.

Throughout the history of cinema, the image of the witch has of course changed and

evolved massively to fit different eras, different political backdrops, and different genres of cinema.

Witches have appeared in everything from horror to romcoms to Disney movies.

The only thing that remains consistent about the witch

is that it remains almost an exclusively female character.

During the early 1960s at the dawn of sexual liberation and second-wave feminism, the figure of the witch in horror

cinema gradually began to change from a monstrous malevolent force to something altogether

more relatable and identifiable.

As with proto-slashes of the time like psycho and peeping Tom,

witches were beginning to infiltrate the modern day, reinventing this monster, this archetype,

for a whole new generation.

You don't really believe in this norm, Just a woman's eccentricity.

Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of the occult

and explore three witchy classics, Black Sunday, City of the Dead, and Night of the Eagle.

Burn, witch, burn, burn, burn, which, burn, burn.

Welcome back to the Evolution of Horror. My name is Mike, and as ever I am your host.

If you're tuning in for the first time, then welcome.

In this podcast, we explore and dissect the evolution of the horror genre

by looking at particular sub-genres one season at a time. We are currently in the middle of exploring

the evolution of the occult in horror cinema and this is part five in which as the

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