A Maldição das Bruxas

Despite most assessments, this isn't a rip-off of "The Craft" because this one actually has a plot which isn't based on a "Nightmare on Elm Street" flick.

And because the women take their clothes off, which is what most male "Craft"~watchers were hoping for.

Guess what? The women here are better looking.

I won't call it a great film, but it's ok ~ and far better than the tedious "The Craft."

2 NiroStars

In today's world of high-profile Hollywood special effects flicks, B-movies are very underrated and under-appreciated. Oscar material they are not, but they don't try to be. I, personally, have a love for B-cinema, whether it's B-horror, B-action, or B-science fiction. They're movies without big budgets, without big stars, and have poor scripts and poor acting, yet can be just as much fun as big Hollywood movies. A well-made B-movie is humorous, schlocky, tittilating, and most of all entertaining.

Jane Simpson's Little Witches is all of these. It contains everything that makes B-movies so much fun: Creepy horror, blood and gore, a low budget, hot catholic school girl babes, and loads of bare flesh. A truly entertaining and well-made B-movie. The term 'good bad movie' certainly applies to Little Witches. I'll be looking for Sheeri Rappaport in more films after this one.

The film Little Witches had many good qualities, but none so great as when the fat girl was filmed naked.

This movie is a time filler. If you having nothing better to do, watch it. But if you want a quality flick, this isn't it. All it is, is a platform for t & a, and that's about it. The story is not much to be desired, but it IS good mindless fun, take notice on the mindless part. This is good to watch when there's nothing on TV and Showtime is showing it AGAIN. As for the Craft ripoff debate, it's not a ripoff, but it does try to be fun in a Craft way, but fails poorly. If you can see it for free, go for it. But don't waste any money seeing it.

Having just re-watched "Little Witches", I was disappointed. It's nowhere near as good as I remembered.

Of course, I mostly remembered the nudity, which the movie well-advisedly does not skimp on. But it's not a softcore flick, so there is an attempt at plot... an attempt which absolutely fails.

Other than the basic set-up which can probably be gleaned from looking at the DVD box - that is, a group of Catholic schoolgirls get involved in "witchcraft" - I don't know what the movie was about. There is something about hunky construction workers on the school grounds who dig up a corpse or a relic or something and the girls use the dig site in their rites. Also, predictably, the sexpot schoolgirl goes evil and the goody-two-shoes girl goes heroic in the end.

The acting in the movie is better than it really deserves. In particular, Mimi Rose, who plays the good girl, makes her into a character you can believe in, and there seems to be more going on behind the bad girl's performance than just going through the motions. The movie also has legendary character actors Jack Nance and Zelda Rubinstein but doesn't benefit that much from their appearance other than a couple of good scenes. Rubinstein only does one scene. She was an actress with a unique and powerful presence who added an pearl of strangeness to every movie she appeared in. If they had made her, say, the principal of the school and had her appear in multiple scenes in the movie, that could have established an atmosphere that would have suited the movie's try-hard spooky hijinks. It may even have elevated them to something the audience might have cared about.

The music, also, is terrible b-movie synth slop, overbearing from beginning to end, and headache inducing.

I'm not sure why I liked this one so much the first time around. I'm watching the final scene right now and I don't even know what's happening. I didn't care enough to try to follow the plot.