Witchcraft

Year: 1988

Director: Robert Spera

Written by: Jody Savin

Threat: Devil Worshippers

Weapon of Choice: Dagger

IMDb page: IMDb link

       Witchcraft

Rish Outfield's reviews
A poorly-done, slow-moving, non-scary, low-budget, (feel free to add hyphens liberally), illogical, predictable, uninteresting ripoff of Rosemary's Baby with a little The Amityville Horror thrown in for bad measure. This is another notorious example of a film that forced us to add the category "Unfulfilled Promise of Nudity." I am unable to think of positive attributes for this film, but since there were at least five sequels made, somebody somewhere must have paid to see it. I don't get that, since it was really bad and my best advice is to stay away.
Best Scare: A tie between repeatedly seeing the boom mike and the heroine's come-and-go English accent.
I'd Recommend It To: Someone who picked on me in Middle School.

The tyranist's thoughts
This one was downright boring. Now I have to admit that I found Rosemary's Baby a little boring, but at least it was creepy and had me a little freaked out by the end. This is a blatant rip off of that film and it does nothing to improve the boring aspect and everything to take away the creepiness. The most sickening thing is knowing that there are nine sequels. How did this happen? It is unconscionable. Now I have to admit right up front that I have never seen any of the sequels as I write this review. Maybe there will be something redeeming ala Sleepaway Camp and its sequels. Still, there wasn't anything to make a sequel of.

Sequel
Owes everything to/rips off earlier film skull Rosemary's Baby
Sequel setup
Bad title
Bad premise skull
Bad acting skullskull
Bad dialogue skull
MTV Editing
OTS
Girl unnecessarily gets naked
Wanton sex
Death associated with sex
Characters forget about threat
Secluded location skull
Power is cut
Phone lines are cut
Someone investigates a strange noise skull
Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door
Camera is the killer
Victims cower in front of a window/door
Toilet stall scene skull
Victim locks self in with killer
Killer is in car with victim
Cat jumps out
Fake scare skull
Laughable scare
Blood hits camera
Beheading skull
Killer doesn't stay dead
Stupid discovery of corpse
Dream sequence skullskull
Victim running from killer inexplicably falls
No one believes only witness skull
Blood fountain
Poor death effect skull
Excessive gore
Music detracts from scene skull
Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie
Future celebrity appears
No one dies at all
Death in first five minutes skull
Virgin survives
Geek/Nerd survives
Little kid lamely survives
Dog/Pet miraculously survives
Villain is more sympathetic than heroes
Unresolved subplots
"It was all a dream" ending
Unbelievably happy ending skull
What the hell? skullskull

Total Skulls: 19

Other movies in this series:
Witchcraft II: The Temptress
Witchcraft III: The Kiss of Death
Witchcraft IV
Witchcraft V: Dance with the Devil
Witchcraft VI: The Devil's Mistress
Witchcraft VII: Judgment Hour
Witchcraft 8: Salem's Ghost
Witchcraft IX: Bitter Flesh
Witchcraft X: Mistress of the Craft
Witchcraft XI: Sisters in Blood