This week on Sleepy Hollow Theater, we proudly present to you the not so classic 1960 film, The City of the Dead.

A young coed, Nan Barlow (Venetia Stephenson) uses her winter vacation to research a paper on witchcraft in New England. Her professor recommends that she spend her time in a small village called Whitewood. He originally came from that village so he also recommends she stay at the “Raven’s Inn,” run by a Mrs. Newlis. She gets to the village and notices some weird happenings, but things begin to happen in earnest when she finds herself “marked” for sacrifice by the undead coven of witches. It seems that the innkeeper is actually the undead spirit of Elizabeth Selwyn, and the “guests” at the inn are the other witches who have come to celebrate the sacrifice on Candalmas Eve.

Known under multiple titles (Horror Hotel, La cité des morts, De dödas stad, Poltettujen noitien hotelli) The City of the Dead was first released in the United Kingdom in 1960 and features Venetia Stevenson (credited as Venetia Stephenson), Patricia Jessel, Dennis Lotis and Christopher Lee.