Maggie Porter inherits Crowhaven Farm and instantly feels that something isn't quite right with the place. We, the viewers, know for a fact there's something wrong, because her uncle who initially inherited the place blew up in a mysterious car accident on his way up there; like it was the farm's way of telling that they want Maggie. She feels as if she's been to Crowhaven Farm before, like she lived a previous life there and quickly begins to suffer from visions of tableaux occurring in the 17th Century. Stories told by an elderly neighbor, about the farm's history as the gathering place where a witch coven committed some macabre executions, confirm Maggie's anxiety. Maggie and her husband Ben then adopt the cherubic Jennifer and everything seems to go a little better from then onwards. Ben sells a couple of his painting and Maggie suddenly becomes pregnant, even though they weren't able to conceive a child before. But there's more to Jennifer than meets the eye, as she carries on her shoulder the mark of the devil. "Crowhaven Farm" is a fairly atmospheric early 70's TV-thriller, with slow-brooding suspense and a lot of emphasis on character development instead of action. The mood and plot are somewhat similar to "Rosemary's Baby", but the setting is suitably replaced towards Massachusetts with also some clear references to the morbid New England history pages like Salem. The sets are costumes are convincing enough and in the cast we have genre veteran John Carradine who walks around half of the film carrying a rotten door with him. There are a couple of strange and implausible twists near the finale and the ending is somewhat disappointing (at least to me personally it was), but nevertheless this is a fine example of early 70's TV-horror craftsmanship
Review of Crowhaven Farm
