Day 15: The wives have turned to witchcraft...No clue how much longer I wil.......
My pick for today is.........
According to director George A. Romero, in the commentary track he did for The Crazies (1973) in 2002, this is the only one of his films he'd like to remake. He cited lack of money as a reason for unhappiness with this production as it turned out.
The film originally began production under the title of Jack's Wife. Romero got the idea for the film after reading about witchcraft for a different project. While working with public television in Pittsburgh, Romero became aware of the Feminist movement which also influenced his script.
The film was shot with a small crew in 1972 on 16mm film in Pittsburgh. The film suffered from production problems when the original budget of $250,000 was lowered to $100,000. Romero was pressured to make two sex scenes in the film pornographic by the distributor, which Romero didn't allow.
In 1973, Romero described the film as "not really" being a horror film, but as a film that deals with the occult peripherally.
Both the original film negative and Romero's original cut of the film are lost.
by Shawn
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