one of the best lesser know occult orient horror movie of the seventy . it gritty and exciting and scary and surrealistic here and there and at moment even very smart and which can not be say about many of the movie this kind . i can not help see some sting symbolic and metaphoric point at the seventy society and generation stuff of the time this movie be do . the scriptwriter have obviously be cook while deliver also some good old from the crypt kind of scene . with a job well do from a creative director the result be entertain and think provoke . the simple and yet effective end specially show how these thing be treat right by those who can . the excellent cast be mostly unknown to me and except l. q. jones a the moody but funny sheriff and strother martin a the town doctor . martin and not surprisingly and always end up steal the movie . with that voice and skill he be one of the great loony in movie and for me anyway . what an actor . so and it be a little bit of mystery to me why this movie have not gather far great recognition . i think it would deserve almost equal place in the occult horror canon alongside rosemary baby and the exorcist . one helluva movie .