A 17th century witch is put to death, but returns many centuries later after a group of students, led being their tutor Mac Stuart (Robert Elston), engage in an impromptu occult ceremony. Witch-possessed student Jill (Anitra Walsh) goes on a kill spree, harvesting souls for Satan, while Mac chills out in his study reading books and figuring out how to stop the resurrected witch. The story by Mary Davis and Martha Peters is silly but fun, while the direction of Tom Moore is reasonably good given the low budget. There’s some decent photography and some nice ritual sequences, with the low budget actually working in favour of the film by enhancing the overall grainy tone and feel. The acting is fairly amateurish throughout but Anitra Walsh is decent enough and always watchable in an oddly hammy way. The score by Whitey Thomas was fairly innovative for the time consisting of any number of strange synthesizer squalls and drones. All-in-all “Mark of the Witch” is a fun little movie, amateurish in places but always entertaining in slightly silly and faux-occult manner. ( )