# Ooh! ID This Movie - Pilgrims! Stoning! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 2, 2006, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-id-this-movie-pilgrims-stoning/374934 "2006-10-02T04:58:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-id-this-movie-pilgrims-stoning/374934/1 "2006-10-02T04:58:21Z")
I saw this on TV sometime in the mid-70s. Don’t know if it was a theatrical release first. It had something to do with a society dressed in brown and they looked something like pilgrims (at least as they’re portrayed to children). I don’t know if there was a time travel aspect, or if these people just lived off on their own. What stuck with me was that they practiced stoning, using a large door and big rocks to suffocate transgressors. In one scene they carried out the sentence in broad daylight, in a very solemn manner. Children of the village helped carry rocks. The protagonist was a blonde, she reminded me of Shirley Jones a la Partridge Family, but it might not have been her. She was an outsider who might have been investigating the group. At the end, she gets squashed. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-id-this-movie-pilgrims-stoning/374934/2 "2006-10-02T05:13:48Z")
It brought [Salem’s Lot](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/'Salem's_Lot) to my mind for some reason. Is that it? ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-id-this-movie-pilgrims-stoning/374934/3 "2006-10-02T05:19:15Z")
Nope, no David Soul, no vampires. Thanks for trying! Hmmm, maybe the year was more like 1974? ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-id-this-movie-pilgrims-stoning/374934/4 "2006-10-02T05:26:06Z")
It’s ringing a very faint bell (though I’d have seen is much later than you did) but I’m coming up blank. How long was this program/movie? Did a more modern show do an homage to the movie? It seems to me that I saw a show similar to X-Files or the like with an episode with a plot line like that, but I might be mis-remembering and it was the same program you recall as well. 😕 Maybe finding the one will help find and name the other? ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-id-this-movie-pilgrims-stoning/374934/5 "2006-10-02T05:26:31Z")
[QUOTE=fessie] The protagonist was a blonde, she reminded me of Shirley Jones a la Partridge Family, but it might not have been her. [/QUOTE] Close. It was Hope Lange. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065594/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065594/) ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-id-this-movie-pilgrims-stoning/374934/6 "2006-10-02T06:04:25Z")
[Here](http://www.lastdriveinontheleft.com/crow-secret.html) is a longer synopsis of the movie. I think I have seen it as well. Very creepy. ---
**Author:** ![jellyblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@jellyblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jellyblue)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-id-this-movie-pilgrims-stoning/374934/7 "2006-10-02T08:09:39Z")
I saw this movie too when I was a kid! It must have made quite an impression because years later I was under anasthesia for surgery and apparently hallucinated about it and screamed through the entire procedure. I know because they asked me to tell them what was happening (trying to shut me up) and I told them there was a door on top of me and doctors (!) were crushing me to death with stones :eek: . So, don’t let your kids watch this movie. They might upset surgeons later in life. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-id-this-movie-pilgrims-stoning/374934/8 "2006-10-02T11:38:10Z")
I knew it was **Crowhaven Farm** as soon as I read the OP, but I was far too late to bring it up. You might be interest to know that this method was used to torture, then kill, one of the accusecd witches at Salem, Masachusetts Giles Corey: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giles\_Corey](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giles_Corey) It certainly wasn’t the usual method of either execution (the other witches were hung) or of coercing confessions, so its use in the movie (where, If I Recall Correctly, it wasn’t even being used for coercion) was only because it was sufficiently icky to impress little kids. And adults. ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-id-this-movie-pilgrims-stoning/374934/9 "2006-10-02T18:15:36Z")
aaaack!! aaaack! OMG, those pictures, I am having such flashbacks!! ::shuddering excessively:: Thanks for finding it, I’m amazed that you knew what it was. Geez! ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-id-this-movie-pilgrims-stoning/374934/10 "2006-10-02T18:41:16Z")
could it have been an adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s **The Lottery**? ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-id-this-movie-pilgrims-stoning/374934/11 "2006-10-02T18:42:17Z")
[Emily Litella]never mind[/EL] ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-id-this-movie-pilgrims-stoning/374934/12 "2006-10-02T19:40:38Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] [Emily Litella]never mind[/EL] [/QUOTE] ::snort:: ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-id-this-movie-pilgrims-stoning/374934/13 "2006-10-02T19:51:10Z")
[QUOTE=Zabali\_Clawbane] [Here](http://www.lastdriveinontheleft.com/crow-secret.html) is a longer synopsis of the movie. I think I have seen it as well. Very creepy. [/QUOTE] Yikes! Right below it is, “The Dark Secret Of Harvest Home”, which is the 70s era, made for tv movie, that still gives _me_ the willies.