Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

UnowPriceless hyped garbage

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Michael O'Keefe Written by David Duncan and directed by Will Cowan, this horror tale is also known as THE WATER WITCH. A bit scary with situational terror, THE THING THAT COULDN'T DIE, or wouldn't die. Using a dowsing rod on her aunt's ranch, a young female psychic makes a startling discovery. A box is recovered from the ground and it contains a 400 year old head! This is the living head of a 16th century devil worshiper named Gideon Drew(Robin Hughes). The dismembered head's whispers will hypnotize anyone listening to search for its separated body. The dowsing rod figures to be important in the search, no matter who uses it.The players include: Carolyn Kearney, William Reynolds, Andrea Martin, Charles Horvath, Peggy Converse and Jeffery Stone.

SanteeFats Wow!! For an old horror movie this one sucks. It also is not a horror movie at all in my opinion, it is at best a suspense. It is slow to develop and never gets any better. The acting is average at best. They did do a good job with the head of the bad guy when he is unearthed, at least for back then when the special effects were suspect most of the time. The dream flash back when the dowser is over come by I don't know what explains a lot but not all of the back ground information is supplied. Why didn't they just burn the body and/or the head? Well then there wouldn't have been a movie of course. I don't understand why TMC aired this one. They usually have much better movies.

mlraymond The main problem with this movie has been pointed out already by other viewers: not the low budget, or the recycled music, which is pretty well used, or the basic story, etc, but that many of the characters are pretty annoying. Jessica, the sweet young thing with the psychic gift, is just too bland to be much of a real heroine, and the hero does very little. Boyd, the sleazy ranch hand is supposed to be unlikable and he does a good job, as does the big, Lenny like guy as a well meaning , but simple character. The drunken artist is understandably P.O.'d at the way his model/fiancée Linda is acting.The characters and performances that really stand out for me are Andra Martin as Linda, doing a very good job as the nice model, who turns into a really sensuously sinister character, under the influence of sorceror Gideon Drew. Considering he spends most of the movie as a disembodied head, Robin Hughes is very good as the undead magician.Once he's back in one piece, he delivers some effectively menacing lines quite well.The aforementioned are probably the best performances, but the third memorable one stands out as being one of the most presumably unintentionally dislikable characters in a movie. Aunt Flavia as written is certainly not very appealing, but the actress portraying her makes her so obnoxious that she nearly sinks the picture. Other posters have referred to her "dental drill voice" and that they hoped the bad guy would get her before the picture was over, or a tree would fall on her, and I concur.Ever since one poster referred to " the closet gay leading man", I've been forced to look at the movie differently. A couple of posters have mentioned a vaguely lesbian subtext to some scenes involving Linda and Jessica, and I have to admit, seeing the two good looking ladies sharing a bed was kind of exciting, but any possible undertones of that nature would have to have been pretty well hidden for a Fifties movie.It certainly isn't a good movie by most standards, but it does have a kind of creepy atmosphere that works fairly well. I think it's worth seeing once, any way.

jrware If you ever visited Shenandoah Acres as a child and wondered, could there be a worse vacation spot in the world? Well, you could have watched this movie and had your answer. Flavia (a.k.a. Fistula) Macintyre's dude ranch is often frequented by business casual Gordon, at least since resident water witch, Jessica, was 13. But Jessica can find much more than fresh spring water with that divining rod – buried "tray-shure," lost jewelry, dead bodies, even a talisman that will keep her from dressing like a slut and raising drinks with a phony beat and a Suzanne Pleshette look-alike while hypnotized by a disembodied head. Evil, evil evil.