Beautiful write-up! I didn't know about this film until a few years ago, when some friends in my age group mentioned seeing it in school. I came to the story as an adult--after I first read The Haunting of Hill House, I believe. Shirley Jackson's The Witchcraft of Salem Village was one of my most beloved childhood books (which I checked out again and again from the Sherman Oaks Public Library), but I didn't make the connection between it and Jackson's fiction until much later.