Witch City from the sad story of henry 2953 Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 34 min 0 sec
✓ Published: 03-Oct-2018

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Salem, Massachusetts, exists as both a city and a metaphor. The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 sent 20 people to their deaths and the phrase “witch hunt” into the American lexicon. In the early 1990s the city grappled with how to commemorate the 300th anniversary of this event while simultaneously promoting the local Disneyesque industry that had grown up around it. A group of native-born filmmakers were on the ground to record it. Their documentary, WITCH CITY, is an uncompromising, darkly humo