The Love Witch

Elaine, a beautiful young witch, relocates to a small California town following the death of her husband Jerry — who, she explains with calm detachment, simply couldn't survive the intensity of her love. She settles into a Victorian apartment, joins a local coven led by Gahan and his wife Barbara, and resumes her search for a man capable of truly loving her back.

Her methods are precise: handmade love potions, spell jars, carefully constructed rituals. They work. Men fall for her with a totality that consumes them — overwhelmed by manufactured feeling until they lose themselves entirely and die. A professor named Wayne weeps himself to death in his cabin after a weekend with Elaine. She notes the pattern, mourns briefly, and moves on.

She becomes fixated on Trish's husband Richard, then redirects her attention to a detective named Griff, who is quietly investigating the suspicious deaths connected to her. Griff is drawn to her despite himself. Trish grows suspicious. The net tightens.

Elaine believes she has finally found real love in Griff. When he pulls back, she murders him rather than let him leave. She is arrested — and arrives at her own apprehension in full bridal dress, serene and entirely elsewhere. The film ends on her face: composed, unreachable, certain she was right about everything.