When I was a child in the ...

Question: When I was a child in the late 1960s/early '70s, I saw a scary flick that has stayed with me to this day. In it there was a scene in which villagers dressed as Pilgrims were trampling a person underneath a big wooden door of some sort. Do you have any idea which film this is?


Answer: I do. I also saw this movie as a child, and the scene you describe is the one that has stuck with me as well. You're remembering the made-for-TV Crowhaven Farm (1970), with Hope Lange as a young wife who, with her husband, unexpectedly inherits a farm. They move there in hopes of patching up their marriage, to which end she also wants to become pregnant. But she starts hearing strange noises and having dreams about a pregnant 17th-century woman being pressed to death, a standard way of executing witches in America (contrary to what many people believe, witches weren't burned in the colonies as they were in Europe). Sadly, this movie has never been available on commercial video or DVD.

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