This one is a genuine curiosity, a hysterical "Southern Gothic" tale that really plays like a horror-oriented Tennessee Williams melodrama! It makes for offbeat viewing, to be sure, with an intriguing premise about a strapping young "witchboy" (Tom Tryon), overseeing the backwoods with a trio of likewise 'gifted' women, who falls for a local girl (Gloria Talbott) and wishing to become human; his more experienced companions, however, make a wager that he will not last a year in that guise and that she herself will be unfaithful before then! Needless to say, their prophecy comes true – the couple even have an infant (never seen) which is deemed a witch and burned by its own grandmother! Tryon pleads with the leader of the sorceresses to give him another chance
but the other two had already seen this coming and asked the eldest for Talbott's life in such an eventuality! Again, this fact comes to pass with, in the end, the protagonist reverting to form and actually having no recollection of what has occurred – even mocking the corpse of his own wife lying there! Though supposedly shot in colour, this has become so washed-out with time that it could be mistaken for monochrome! As I said, the film is not without interest – but the overall tone is so over-the-top that, along with the drawling accents of all involved, the experience emerges a tiresome and altogether unpleasant one...like an Ozark antecedent of ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968)!