...it's not something teen girls or college ladies are going to flock to in the future...

It's rough around the edges but could find an audience with coven-lovers who dig the exact Pretty Little Liars Who Are Also Spellcasters vibe.

It is well-directed, moves quickly, and the action scenes are fun.

At the height of the Spanish Inquisition, "Rostegui" (Alex Brendemühl) has been charged by the King with rooting out the witchery that allegedly prevails amidst his 17th century Basque country. Allied with his notary (Daniel Fanego), a zealous young priest (Asier Oruesagasti) and a few soldiers his job is to specifically apprehend young women who may be privy to the secret rites that can conjure Satan from the depths to corrupt their bodies and their souls. His latest suspects are a group of nubile teenagers whom he is perfectly happy to have tortured until they either confess or are proved to be evil by rather probing and brutal bodily investigations. "Ana" (Amaia Aberasturi) might have read the tales of "Shéhérezade" though, as she convinces the others that their only hope of survival is to string out this process long enough for their fathers - fishing at sea - to return and rescue them. She's lucky in that her captor is captivated by her, and she knows how to capitalise on that but the longer their stalling goes on the more suspicious he becomes that not only are they really witches - as they have now acknowledged out of desperation, but they are preparing for their Sabbath dance so as to either escape or perhaps even entrap him in their sinister ritual. If you ever saw Vincent Price's "Witchfinder General" from 1968, then you may already appreciate that many of the techniq…