Witchcraft IV: The Virgin Heart

I watched the first three movies in this series just over a year ago, took a year off as I didn't really enjoy any of them, but thought alright let's get back into the WITCHCRAFT series. Then comes this dud.

Supposedly 3 years after part 3 a girl named Nora Breckenridge (Diane Thomas or Sunset Thomas as she is better known in the adult films she made) goes missing. The cops think her boyfriend is the culprit. He is played by Orien Richman as Pete Wild...no really that's the character's name. His sister Lily (Lisa Jay Harrington) hires Will Spanner (Charles Solomon) to be his lawyer. He then connects it to a stripper named Belladonna (Julie Strain) who he begins to tail to find out what happened.

I feel bad for Solomon as this was his third and final WITCHCRAFT flick and really what a terrible way to go. His character has really been reduced almost nothing as times when he should be doing something to help himself or other people he does nothing and ends up peeping in Lily's window watching her undress as well before it fades to the next scene. Horribly lit as you feel like they didn't have enough money to even turn the lights on. Horrible sound as half the time you can hardly pick out what the actors are saying. Horribly directed as you generally go from one extremely long, boring shot to the next and any scene may in fact only have two shots in it. This movie seems so much cheaper than the earlier entries, which is really saying something. Not sure how I am going to get through the rest of the endless series.

The fourth film in the neverending Witchcraft series finds Will Spanner (Charles Solomon) hired by Lily Wild (Lisa Jay Harrington) to help her brother Pete (Orien Richman) when he's the number one suspect in the disappearance of his girlfriend Norah (Sunset Thomas).

Will and Lisa find a matchbox for a club, the Covenant, at the scene of the crime. Will goes to the club to check things out and finds an attractive stripper named Belladonna (Julie Strain). Mr. Spanner becomes fascinated with Belladonna and what secrets the club may be hiding. His search leads him to a musician Santara, who may or may not be the key to things.

Boring!

WITCHCRAFT IV: THE VIRGIN HEART is the worst WITCHCRAFT film yet, and all four have been pretty bad. This sees Charles Solomon Jr., the main actor from the last two films in the series, coming back for a final time essaying the role of the good-guy warlock facing up to the forces of evil.

This effort tries to tell some sort of politically-tinged tale but the budget is far too low to convince with any of the court house scenes. The emphasis of the story is on rock music so there's lots of the expected padding and little in the actual way of story telling. Once again the devil is getting folk to sell their souls to him and only our hero can stop him.

The most notable thing about THE VIRGIN HEART is the willingness of starlet Julie Strain to show off her bare body, which she does on regular occasions playing a devilish stripper character. While Solomon Jr. would thankfully quit the series after this instalment, unfortunately it would continue to run and run without him.

In WITCHCRAFT IV: THE VIRGIN HEART, a woman is abducted and it's up to private investigator / warlock, Will Spanner (Charles Solomon Jr.) to get to the bottom of things.

Spanner's search leads him to a club called Coven. This is a rough place. How rough? Well, it's filled with industrial smog, and the bartender wears nothing but waders pulled up to his man-nipples! Now, that's rough!

Thankfully, a dancer called Belladonna (Julie Strain!) takes the club stage. It's not long before her clothing dissolves into memory. Henceforth, we realize that this is Ms. Strain's movie, for our minds are filled with nothing else! Fans of this Amazon, warrior-goddess take note: She's really good in this! While one could simply watch her standing mute, for hours, she proves herself to be more than the sum of her magnificent parts!

As Spanner delves into Belladonna's dark world, he becomes increasingly involved with her.

Mostly a mystery / detective story, those expecting a straightforward occult film will be sadly disappointed. For a movie called WITCHCRAFT, it seems absurd to save almost all of the supernatural stuff for the final 20 minutes!

Those expecting a non-stop, Julie Strain-naked-extravaganza will be only mildly satisfied, since she's interrupted constantly by the long-winded story! Seriously, it's ludicrous anyway, and could be told in a 10 minute, short film!

MOST UNBELIEVABLE SCENE: When Belladonna is abused by some mere man. You'll keep yelling, "Why doesn't she just kick his a$$?!", at the screen...

An attorney, who just happens to be a warlock gets involved with Julie Stern, but notices some devilish happenings going on around him and her involving rock stars. Some hot sexual situations, but it seems that with each new entry in this series these films actually seem to get worse. Clunky dialogue and laughable situations are its main flaws. Rated R; Sexual Situations, Nudity, Profanity, and Violence.