Witchboard III: The Possession

Year: 1995

Director: Peter Svatek

Written by: Kevin S. Tenney, John Ezrine

Threat: Demon

Weapon of Choice: Spearhead

IMDb page: IMDb link

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Other movies in this series:
Witchboard
Witchboard 2

Rish Outfield's reviews
Wait, wasn't that Amityville 2? This was well-written, like the others. It had no scares, though. A lot of nice sex and nudity. An attractive star and her husband who is good with his hair down and bad with his hair up .Same as the others, this was not a great movie, but it had good qualities. I don't know which was the best, so rent them all.

The tyranist's thoughts
This series is interesting in that each of the three movies was based on a related but pretty unique idea. The first dealt with someone becoming entrapped by the witchboard, the second was a spirt trying to seek vengeance through the witchboard, and the third was a demon of a fertility cult trying to find a human host it could use to generate spawn through the witchboard. Also interesting is that none of the ideas is particularly bad and each of them can pretty much be judged independent of the others. The third entry was pretty standard fare in the possession department. It reminded me quite a bit of Rosemary's Baby among others, but it did have a pretty good feel by itself. There was a moment in the movie when it snowed that I quite enjoyed (wow, that sounds weird now that I am in the light of day). The plot isn't particularly dense and the characters aren't that great, but on the whole the movie could fail in many worse ways.

Total Skulls: 15

Sequel skull
Sequel setup skull
Rips off earlier film
Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie
Future celebrity appears
Former celebrity appears
Bad title
Bad premise
Bad acting
Bad dialogue
Bad execution
MTV Editing
OTS skullskull
Girl unnecessarily gets naked
Wanton sex skullskull
Death associated with sex
Unfulfilled promise of nudity
Characters forget about threat
Secluded location
Power is cut
Phone lines are cut
Someone investigates a strange noise
Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door
Camera is the killer skull
Victims cower in front of a window/door skull
Victim locks self in with killer
Victim running from killer inexplicably falls
Toilet stall scene
Shower scene skull
Car stalls or won't start
Cat jumps out
Fake scare skull
Laughable scare skull
Stupid discovery of corpse
Dream sequence skull
No one believes only witness
Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth
Music detracts from scene
Death in first five minutes
What the hell? skull
x years ago . . .
Dark and stormy night
Killer doesn't stay dead skull
Killer wears a mask
Killer is in closet
Killer is in car with victim
Villain is more sympathetic than heroes
Unscary villain/monster
Beheading
Blood fountain
Blood hits camera
Poor death effect
Excessive gore
No one dies at all
Virgin survives
Geek/Nerd survives
Little kid lamely survives
Dog/Pet miraculously survives
Unresolved subplots skull
"It was all a dream" ending
Unbelievably happy ending
Unbelievably crappy ending