Movies:
The Dark Secret of Harvest Home
- Rating:
- Genre: Horror
- Movie Type: Supernatural Horror
- Themes: Cults, Small-Town Life, Devil Worship
- Director: Leo Penn
- Main Cast: Rosanna Arquette, Bette Davis
- Release Year: 1978
- Country: US
- Run Time: 118 minutes
Plot
This vapid television production is based on Thomas Tryon's complex and suspenseful occult thriller Harvest Home, delving into the forbidden rituals of the small New England township Cornwall Combe, whose residents offer annual human sacrifices to pagan gods in return for a bountiful corn harvest. The production is notable mainly for the participation of Bette Davis, who hams it up royally as the powerful Widow Fortune, the town's leading practitioner of the black arts, and a very young Rosanna Arquette as one of the new kids in town. Originally an overinflated miniseries, this film is available on video mainly in a drastically cut version that makes almost no sense at all. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie GuideCast
- Rosanna Arquette - Kate Constantine
- Bette Davis - Widow Fortune
René Auberjonois - Jack Stump
David Ackroyd - Nick Constantine
Phoebe Alexander - Mrs. Buckley
John Calvin - Justin Hooke
Dick Durock - Roy Soakes
Michael Durrell - Ty Barth
Tracey Gold - Missy Penrose
Stephen Joyce - Robert Dodd
Linda Marsh - Maggie Dodd
Joanna Miles - Beth Constantine
Michael O'Keefe - Worthy Pettinger
Donald Pleasence
Laurie Prange - Sophie Hooke
Lina Raymond - Tamar Penrose
Martin Shakar - David Adwell
Richard Venture - Richard
Norman Lloyd - Amys Penrose
