aka The Hencrake Witch

Short

Article 3866 by Dave Sindelar

Viewing Date: 3-6-2012

Posting Date: 3-15-2012

Directed by Mark Melford

Featuring Jackeydawra Melford, Mark Melford

Country: UK

What it is: Fantasy comedy

When the daughter of a local witch is ostracized by the other students at a girl school, the witch plots a revenge against them.  She also helps her daughter's lover to overcome his father's resistance to their romance.

This title had ended up on my "ones that got away" list with a LOST classification, but a print (with only a few seconds missing at the beginning and the end) has apparently turned up, been restored, and posted on the web, thus giving me a chance to see it.  It looked relatively realistic(for a movie about a witch in its time, so I was wondering if it would be a movie about the witch hunts, but the minute the daughter shows up in a black pointed hat, I knew that it wasn't to be taken too seriously.  In the movie, the witch really only has one trick up its sleeve, but it's a good one, especially when she casts it on a misogynistic father.  It's a fun and amusing little short that I'm glad survived.  Incidentally, I was quite surprised to discover that the character of Jackeydawra (the witch's daughter) was actually played by an actress name Jackeydawra.