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''The [[The Touch of Satan]]'' is a 1971 horror film. It was directed by Tom Laughlin, and it starred Michael Berry and Emby Mellay in their only roles. The film was shot in 1970 in the Santa Ynez, California area and featured the early work from makeup artist Joe Blasco. The film was relatively obscure until a 1998 appearance ([[Mystery Science Theater 3000 (TV)/Recap/S09 /E08 Touch of Satan|this episode]]) on the series [[Mystery Science Theater 3000]], where the film was mocked for its low budget and bad acting.
 
The movie begins with the murder of a farmer by an elderly insane woman with terribly burned facial features. After stabbing the farmer and accidentally setting his barn on fire, the woman stumbles home to her family. The family, an older couple and a young teenage woman, argue about the best way to handle the situation and make vague references that the elderly woman may have killed people in the past.
 
The scene then switches to the main character, a young man named Jodie who is on an open-ended car trip across America to find himself and discover whether or not he wishes to follow in his father's footsteps as a lawyer. Jodie stops at a small pond to have lunch and meets Melissa, the teenage girl from the previous scene.
 
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=== Tropes used in ''[[Touch of Satan]]'': ===
* [[Amazing Freaking Grace]]: A ''perfectly'' appropriate witch-burning song and note that it's used ''four times'' in total.
* [[Ax Crazy]]: 'Grandma.'
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* [[Cassandra Truth]]: Even when she tells him point blank, even when she gives him a dream of the past, even when the people Melissa's living with agree with her, Jodie refuses to believe Melissa's a witch. This may have something to do with the fact that Jodie isn't exactly a physics professor.
* [[Cool Car]]
* [[Deal Withwith the Devil]]
* [[Devil but No God]]
* [[Downer Ending]]
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* [[Insane Equals Violent]]: The "great grandmother" of Melissa really has no reason for murdering other than this.
* [[Ironic Echo Cut]]: At the start of the movie, a farmer being killed transitions to Melissa and her family laughing pleasantly. Presumably, inverting the trope was the intent.
* [[Madwoman in Thethe Attic]]: A literal example of this trope.
* [[Malaproper]]: "See, the way I got it figured, this job was done by one of them ''fromokaidal'' maniacs, and we ain't got none of them around here"
* [[May-December Romance]]
* [[Never Mess Withwith Granny]]: By Jodie's math (which places Melissa at 127 years old), Lucinda may be the ''oldest woman alive'', or indeed ''to ever live''. And she commits ''two'' murders over the course of the movie.
* [[No Immortal Inertia]]
* [[Older Than They Look]]: Melissa and her family.
* [[Product Placement]]
* [[Public Domain Soundtrack]]: ''Amazing Grace''
* [[Shout-Out]]: To [[HPH.P. Lovecraft]] in the [[I Have Many Names]] speech above.
* [[Torches and Pitchforks]]
* [[Unfortunate Names]]
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