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The Coven is a British film of genre Fantasy with Dexter Fletcher
The Coven (2015)
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Add to a movie listThe Coven is a 2015 United Kingdom fantasy horror feature film directed by John Mackie (director) and starring Dexter Fletcher. The plot revolves around a Wiccan group whose leader, Uri Clef, disappears. The premise is that the group are practitioners of Cochrane's Craft. Seven schoolkids are drawn to Queen's Wood in Highgate on Halloween where they disappear. The Coven is notable for having a strong basis in the actual practices of Witchcraft groups in the period following the repeal of the Witchcraft Act in 1951. The film was finally released direct to DVD in the UK on March 16, 2015.
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The film opens with a map of Queen’s Wood in Highgate. A burning tree appears in a dark night. There is a goats head overlaid visually in the tree. The scene then moves to a girls school where Mr Shears (Dexter Fletcher: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels) is giving a lesson about Wicca. He is holding a book with a title page containing the words ‘Diabolus quod igneus frutex’, meaning the devil is the fire tree. This book is bound in red leather. He gives a brief explanation asking ‘Is Wicca a religion or little more than devil worship’. The explanation he gives revolves around Robert Cochrane (witch) who he says ‘founded a Wicca coven as recently as the 1960s’. He is interrupted by a woman who comes into the class room and introduces herself as Mrs Belial, posing as a supply teacher. She tells him that he needs to see the headmaster. He leaves and she takes over the lesson. She explains how there was a Wiccan leader Uri Clef who appeared recently. He went missing on Halloween with seven of his followers and they were last thought to be in Queen’s Wood. She explains that people were concerned about Clef’s radical views but could not stop him. She then states that ‘he did stop’ and smiles seeming happy about this. Mr Shears finds the headmaster away and returns to the classroom but Mrs Belial has disappeared. It is clear that he does not know her.Actors
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