Sarita Rafferty
There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.
Michael Ledo
Nothing says 80s like David Hasselhoff and Linda Blair. The film opens with an event that took place in the past of a pregnant woman being hunted down on an island hotel. Leslie (Leslie Cumming) is a virgin doing paranormal studies at this site along with her frustrated photographer boyfriend Hasselhoff. As the hotel is for sale a group of rich people, including the expected Linda Blair come to the location...all of which is an elaborated plan by a dead witch who wants to kill off a few in the group. The group is stuck in the house during a storm, but Tom Bodett keeps the light on for them, so how scary can it be?Yes. Totally 80's. Acting par on a Hassellhoff scale. Made for TV type sound track. Almost campy looking back at it.Parental guide: rape. nudity (Leslie Cumming)
Rainey Dawn
This is another of the films I've "lost" over the years - I saw years ago as a teen but forgot about until I watched it again. It's a pretty good old horror flick.The one thing I did not like about the film was the red light "twilight zone" or "dr. who" vortex but the rest of the movie was decent.The last 20 to 30 minutes of the film was creepy. Once the rescue mission launched and the helicopter reached the island it was very suspenseful! The survivors were trapped in the house due to the witchcraft of the woman in black - and was the most exciting part of the film.Linda Blair was creepy as usual in this movie - and shows us why she's one of the queens of horror.David Hasselhoff did a great job of acting in this film too - he played a good part and important role.I would recommend watching this movie on a rainy afternoon if you are wanting a pretty good scare.7/10
physcgoth
Ghosthouse 2, Witch House 2, Witchcraft ... La Casa 4 or what ever this movie is called it is very odd I have too say it creeped the hell out of me and Iv seen most horrors pretty much all of Dario Aragento Movies and that other guy who did House by the Cemetery actually out of the two his Directors Dario's Movies are so much more artistic Any way Back on Track this movie is just odd scary but also crappy and so many flash that the naked eye can see straight off without watching it 10 times over but yea it has one off the best endings ever and it one of the creepiest witches iv ever seen in a movie ......How it maybe would of worked..... if it was planed better not related a sequel to a string of other 100% unrelated films. One scene a girl is rapped by ummm something that looks like the devil but id say its a demon as the witch in the movie kinda plays a Lilith Character and we all know Lilith stole the Devils Powers for her self anyway she is rapped by the demon early one and by the end of the film your forget as so much has happened since the last scene is set in a hospital room with the rapped girl being told she is pregnant One of 2 reason there was no sequel it would of been just like Rosemarys baby remake or the fact half the film was damaged during taping that the never bothered too release this well on home-video of courseAlso David said before about this a lot of the movie was damaged so screens where re shot and more tape was damaged so they just left it was it was not in there budget too shot more
capkronos
There are many different versions of this one floating around, so make sure you can locate one of the unrated copies, otherwise some gore and one scene of nudity might be missing. Some versions also omit most of the opening sequence and other bits here and there. The cut I saw has the on-screen title WITCHCRAFT: EVIL ENCOUNTERS and was released by Shriek Show, who maintain the original US release title WITCHERY for the DVD release. It's a nice-looking print and seems to have all of the footage, but has some cropping/aspect ratio issues. In Italy, it was released as LA CASA 4 (WITCHCRAFT). The first two LA CASA releases were actually the first two EVIL DEAD films (retitled) and the third LA CASA was another film by the same production company (Filmirage), which is best known here in America as GHOSTHOUSE. To make matters even more confusing, WITCHERY was also released elsewhere as GHOSTHOUSE 2. Except in Germany, where GHOSTHOUSE 2 is actually THE OGRE: DEMONS 3. OK, I better just shut up now. I'm starting to confuse myself!Regardless of the title, this is a very hit-or-miss horror effort. Some of it is good, some of it isn't. I actually was into this film for the first half or so, but toward the end it became a senseless mess. A large, vacant hotel located on an island about 50 miles from Boston is the setting, as various people get picked off one-by-one by a German- speaking witch (Hildegard Knef). Photographer Gary (David Hasselhoff), who wants to capture "Witch Light," and his virginal writer girlfriend (Leslie Cumming), who is studying witchcraft, are shacking up at the hotel without permission. Along comes real estate agent Jerry (Rick Farnsworth), who's showing off the property to potential buyers Rose (Annie Ross) and Freddie (Robert Champagne) Brooks. Also tagging along are their children; pregnant grown daughter Jane (Linda Blair) and very young son Tommy (Michael Manchester), as well as oversexed architect Linda Sullivan (Catherine Hickland - Hasselhoff's wife at the time). Once everyone is inside, their boat driver is killed (hung) and the boat disappears, so they find themselves trapped and basically at the mercy of the "Lady in Black."So what can you expect to find here? Plenty of unpleasantries! One of the characters has their lips sewn shut and is then hung upside down in the fireplace and accidentally slow-roasted by the rest of the cast. There's also a crucifixion, witches eating a dead baby, a swordfish through the head, someone set on fire, a possession, a Sesame Street tape recorder, the virgin getting raped by some demon, a guys veins bulging and exploding thanks to voodoo doll pokes and some other stuff. From a technical standpoint, it's a nice-looking film with pretty good cinematography, a decent score and good gore effects. The hotel/island setting is also pretty nice. Blair (particularly at the end) and Ross both seem like they're having fun and Knef is great as the evil witch. Even though people like to ridicule Hasselhoff these days, he's not bad in his role, either.On the down side, despite all the gore, the film seems somewhat dull and it gets monotonous after about an hour. The supernatural themes are muddled and confusing, too. When characters are being swept into the witches lair to be tortured and killed, the filmmakers unwisely decided to superimpose the screaming actors over some silly looking red spiral vortex effect that looks supremely cheesy. And the witch lair itself is vacant and cheaply designed with unfinished lumber. And while most of the cast is at least decent, a few of the performances (particularly the "actress" who plays Hasselhoff's girlfriend and the kid) are so bad they're constantly distracting.
