If you loved The Severed Heads, try Bell, Book and Candle

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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The Severed Heads

1957 · dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky, Saul Gilbert, Ruth Michelly

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Bell, Book and Candle

1958 · dir. Richard Quine

What they share

Theysit in Comedy / Fantasy territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Severed Heads, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Bell, Book and Candle is

Here's a film that asks, what if a witch rom-com? A Greenwich Village enchantress throws a love hex on an unattached publisher, with unintended consequences. It's all very 1950s, down to the perplexing idea that a woman having feelings is a problem.

If you loved The Severed Heads, try Bell, Book and Candle

The Severed Heads

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What they share

What Bell, Book and Candle is

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