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List Price: $6.99 | | Label: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Salesrank: 19688
Released: September 30, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
The Shocking Scandal That Rocked a Small Town.
Salem, Massachusetts. A small town--with no clear governing body--became embroiled in a scandal that forever stands as one of the darkest chapters in American history. For those accused of witchcraft by their neighbors and friends, there was little chance of clearing their names; the mass paranoia that ravaged through the community took the lives of 19 innocent men and women. With an all-star cast of Kirstie Alley, Rebecca De Mornay, Kristin Booth, Shirley MacLaine, Peter Ustinov and Alan Bates, Salem Witch Trials dramatically revisits 1692 colonial America and the haunting legacy it holds.
Salem Witch Trials Reviews:
salem witch trials 
2009-11-30 - A good movie about the Witch trials in Salem Mass. The evolution of blame and hysteria into virtual murder for land, pay back for anything real or imagined, and abuse of political power is well depicted. The feeding of the hysteria on itself until no one was safe and until the governor stopped it after his wife was accused is shown and by analogy has been carried into modern times with the accusers trnsformed into the equivalent of rock stars. The ending is a little weak but overall a good picture.
SALEM WITCH TRIALS BLAME IT ON LITTLE GIRLS 
2009-10-30 - I thought the Catholic Church was good at diverting the blame for their crimes. Apparently the putitans run a close second. Were they so desperate they lacked firewood to keep warm that they burned people?
My opinion. 
2009-01-09 - This is a well made film - acting, cinephotography, soundtrack is great. It gives you a fairly good look at how Puritan life affected it's practitioners. It's a good film to add to your collection, but not something I'd recommend for in depth research as it is partially fictionalized. For educational purposes, I highly recommend the film Three Sovereigns For Sarah, and the book The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege.
What you say may come back to haunt you !
2009-01-07 - A good tale and not entirely accurate in it's presentation according to my family's recorded history. Claims of witchcraft fit right in with land and boundary disputes of the period. A closed mouth and keeping your comments to yourself still did not insured protection against accusations.
I did enjoy the movie and Kristi Alley did a great job with her character. The young actress who played the main trouble maker and basis for all the Salem Village terror was the kind of character you love to hate. I found myself thinking that this psycho kid needed a good old fashioned spanking at the very start of the movie.
It still amazes me that adults could fall for such a sham even to the point of accusing the wives of high officials. A village so wrapped up in ignorance and an unhealthy fear of God assured itself a black place in American history.
Salem Witch Trials 
2008-12-22 - From a technical point of view it is a very well made movie. The story, if it is in any way accurate is sickening. All of those Puritans back then were insane, nuts, irrational, absolutely crazy. How did this nation of ours ever survive with lunatics like that breeding, spreading their poison and inhabiting this country? I'm sure had I been born in that time period they would have hanged me as soon as I emerged from the womb.
