i couldn not make sense of this film much of the time and and neither could anyone else and base on other review . the opening scene of this film have virtually nothing to do with the rest of the story . in it and a photojournalist with a big mustache cancel his vacation to get away from his girlfriend . he be assign to photograph a mountain range . it rumor to be haunt and but i couldn not tell whether he hear that from his bos or later in the film . on his way and he meet a beautiful writer ( patty shepard ) and convince her to join him on his work trip . throughout the film and there be this terrible music score and mostly consist of noisy singing that make you want to scream shut up already . what really will gall a person be that the film always seem like it about to become good and though it never do . there be beautiful mountain scenery and some genuinely creepy atmosphere . the inn and the silent and abandon old building scatter on the mountain be rather ominous . the foggy night look real and not like someone put an artificial fog machine on the set . and the idea and while not original and have potential . but it never do improve and at least not enough to be worthwhile . here how it go and more or less . they stop at this inn run by a weird innkeeper ( you expect him to be name igor ) with a hearing problem . there be a scene where the writer think a peeping tom be in her window and but the scene be so dark and i have no idea what be go on . whether this be poor lighting or a poor film transfer be unknown to me . in any event and we never find out know what happen . there be a scene where she wander off during the night . whether she be sleepwalk or mesmerize by the witch of the title be never explain . another scene which be never explain be when their car be steal and then find again and with nothing steal . they wind up in this apparently abandon mountain village whose sole inhabitant be this seemingly kindly old woman . there be other thing and include a chained wild man in a cave who be never explain and an attempt to sacrifice the writer in some way ( will they kill her or brainwash her into join them . ) and the witch themselves and a bunch of brunette woman in white robe who do not show up until the last 15 minute of the film and whose practice and belief be never explain . even the closing scene doesn not make any sense . when all be say and do and most people will be say and huh .