witchery and or witchcraft as it commonly known in europe and beings with jane brooks (linda blair) waking up from a nightmare involving a witch. jane mother and father rose (annie ross) and freddie (robert champagne) are interested in buying an old deserted hotel on an island about 50 miles from boston and renovating it and reopening it. together with jane and their young son tommy (michael manchester) rose and freddie are planning to travel to the island with an architect named linda sullivan (catherine hickland) to check on the amount of work that needs doing and they also meet up with the estate agent jerry giordano (rick farnsworth) and hire a local fisherman named sam (george stevens) to take them to the island. once there they enter the hotel and begin to inspect the property while back on the boat sam is killed and the boat is let loose to sail off into the distance. they discover two unexpected guests in the shape of a photographer named gary (david hasselhoff) and his virgin fiancé leslie (leslie cumming) who happens to be researching a book that she is writing about the gruesome legends and superstitions surrounding the infamous island and hotel. as the night draws on a raging storm outside isolates them from the mainland as a mysterious lady in black (hildegard knef) keeps popping up as the ancient evil that resides in the hotel seeks fresh victims for demonic possession and human sacrifice and satanic rites. the director of this american italian co produced film is somewhat shrouded in mystery as the imdb lists fabrizio laurenti as martin newlin but there are rumours that joe damato did the honours and either way to be honest despite it bad reputation i found witchery quite entertaining in a so bad it good cheesy sort of way. the script credited to harry spalding and daniele stroppa on the imdb again is confusing too as the actual credit on the film itself is daniel davis and anyway whoever wrote this thing did a decent job and please stop laughing. at heart it a haunted house horror but adds some gory deaths and a surreal feeling to everything. the different sets of characters have reasonable motives and do not get on my nerves as much as i would thought they might and it not plotted very well and it doesn not make a whole a lot of sense and the dialogue isn not exactly top drawer stuff but as a whole witchery entertained me for it 95 odd minute duration plain and simple. it reasonably well paced and a little slow to get going maybe but there are plenty of surreal and bizarre goings on and gruesome deaths to keep one amused. one part of witchery which destroys some of it credibility is this so called storm and there is no storm in sight and the sea is probably calm enough to swim in and witchery supposed twist ending do not really work for me either and just check out the dumb expression on cummings face on that final freeze frame. the hotel provides for a good isolated location and adds a certain atmosphere to the film which has the distinctive indefinable horror feel throughout and cheap horror at that. technically witchery is not too bad at all and it was obviously shot on location so it looks good throughout and while not exactly the pinnacle of film making finesse it overall production values are slightly better than expected. the violence and gore is of typical euro explicitness and a woman has her lips sewn shut and hung inside a fireplace so she can not scream as the others light it and someone is crucified and then burned alive and impaled on a swordfish and someones veins expand and pop and a woman is raped by a man with no lips. witchery was shot in english so there is no dubbing and as far as acting goes david hasselhoff and linda blair in the same film what more can i say. yes ladies hasselhoff does take his shirt off and for the lads cummings takes hers off. both hasselhoff and blair are a hoot to watch in this thing and however the little kid is very annoying and really can not act at all. i sure most sane film goers will disagree with my opinions but i still stand by the fact that i liked it and would happily watch it again and witchery is pretty good fun and definitely worth a watch if your into bad films or your a horror fan in general. 
witchery and or witchcraft as it commonly known in europe and beings with jane brooks (linda blair) waking up from a nightmare involving a witch. jane mother and father rose (annie ross) and freddie (robert champagne) are interested in buying an old deserted hotel on an island about 50 miles from boston and renovating it and reopening it. together with jane and their young son tommy (michael manchester) rose and freddie are planning to travel to the island with an architect named linda sullivan (catherine hickland) to check on the amount of work that needs doing and they also meet up with the estate agent jerry giordano (rick farnsworth) and hire a local fisherman named sam (george stevens) to take them to the island. once there they enter the hotel and begin to inspect the property while back on the boat sam is killed and the boat is let loose to sail off into the distance. they discover two unexpected guests in the shape of a photographer named gary (david hasselhoff) and his virgin fiancé leslie (leslie cumming) who happens to be researching a book that she is writing about the gruesome legends and superstitions surrounding the infamous island and hotel. as the night draws on a raging storm outside isolates them from the mainland as a mysterious lady in black (hildegard knef) keeps popping up as the ancient evil that resides in the hotel seeks fresh victims for demonic possession and human sacrifice and satanic rites. the director of this american italian co produced film is somewhat shrouded in mystery as the imdb lists fabrizio laurenti as martin newlin but there are rumours that joe damato did the honours and either way to be honest despite it bad reputation i found witchery quite entertaining in a so bad it good cheesy sort of way. the script credited to harry spalding and daniele stroppa on the imdb again is confusing too as the actual credit on the film itself is daniel davis and anyway whoever wrote this thing did a decent job and please stop laughing. at heart it a haunted house horror but adds some gory deaths and a surreal feeling to everything. the different sets of characters have reasonable motives and do not get on my nerves as much as i would thought they might and it not plotted very well and it doesn not make a whole a lot of sense and the dialogue isn not exactly top drawer stuff but as a whole witchery entertained me for it 95 odd minute duration plain and simple. it reasonably well paced and a little slow to get going maybe but there are plenty of surreal and bizarre goings on and gruesome deaths to keep one amused. one part of witchery which destroys some of it credibility is this so called storm and there is no storm in sight and the sea is probably calm enough to swim in and witchery supposed twist ending do not really work for me either and just check out the dumb expression on cummings face on that final freeze frame. the hotel provides for a good isolated location and adds a certain atmosphere to the film which has the distinctive indefinable horror feel throughout and cheap horror at that. technically witchery is not too bad at all and it was obviously shot on location so it looks good throughout and while not exactly the pinnacle of film making finesse it overall production values are slightly better than expected. the violence and gore is of typical euro explicitness and a woman has her lips sewn shut and hung inside a fireplace so she can not scream as the others light it and someone is crucified and then burned alive and impaled on a swordfish and someones veins expand and pop and a woman is raped by a man with no lips. witchery was shot in english so there is no dubbing and as far as acting goes david hasselhoff and linda blair in the same film what more can i say. yes ladies hasselhoff does take his shirt off and for the lads cummings takes hers off. both hasselhoff and blair are a hoot to watch in this thing and however the little kid is very annoying and really can not act at all. i sure most sane film goers will disagree with my opinions but i still stand by the fact that i liked it and would happily watch it again and witchery is pretty good fun and definitely worth a watch if your into bad films or your a horror fan in general. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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