Adicionar um enredo no seu idiomaGrace visits husband John's family manor. Peculiar events ensue, butler Ellsworth suspicious. Friend's demise unveils John and mother-in-law are 1687 witches through secret book. Grace and b... Ler tudoGrace visits husband John's family manor. Peculiar events ensue, butler Ellsworth suspicious. Friend's demise unveils John and mother-in-law are 1687 witches through secret book. Grace and baby's fate unclear amid supernatural occurrences.Grace visits husband John's family manor. Peculiar events ensue, butler Ellsworth suspicious. Friend's demise unveils John and mother-in-law are 1687 witches through secret book. Grace and baby's fate unclear amid supernatural occurrences.
- Direção
- Roteirista
- Artistas
- Grace Churchill
- (as Anat Topal-Barzilai)
- John Stocton
- (as Newton, Edward Ross)
- Visitor
- (as Florence Stone)
Avaliações em destaque
The plot of the film is similar to the earlier "Rosemary's Baby". Grace Churchill has given birth to her first child, when her husband temporarily moves them in with his mother. While staying in her mother-in-laws creepy, old mansion, Grace begins experiencing bizarre incidents that lead her to believe her new family isn't what they seem.
Honestly, I'm not sure why this movie got such bad reviews from people. The only real problem I found with it was the editing style - which gives the film the look of an episode of "Murder, She Wrote". The sets of the film are quite creepy. The acting (by a primarily newcomer cast) is good. The music (though performed on a synthesizer) fits the tone of the film.
All in all, "Witchcraft" isn't an Oscar winning film, but it's a interesting way to pass 90 minutes.
* 1/2 (out of 4)
A mother (Anat Topol) brings her newborn son to her mother-in-law's house and sure enough the husband (Gary Sloan) and his mommy (Mary Shelley) are actually Satan worshipers wanting to make the newborn the next Antichrist. Believe it or not but WITCHCRAFT was actually a huge hit when it was released to video back in 1988 but I do wonder how many people rented this thing and could have guessed that twelve sequels would follow. Obviously, the film is just another rip-off of ROSEMARY'S BABY but we get a funny little goof in the opening credits when a title reads "Origional Screenplay by" but perhaps this error was done on purpose since the film certainly wasn't original. The film itself makes a few major mistakes in regards to a made-for-video exploitation film. The biggest is that it's pretty dull from start to finish with not much happening anywhere in the first hour. The film isn't shy about ripping off other devil-child movies so horror fans might get a few kicks out of spotting the various rips. The film really doesn't contain too much violence or blood and the real sin is that it doesn't even offer up any nudity making it quite tame all around and there's really nothing here we haven't seen much better many times before. Even those awful rip-offs from the 70s at least offered up violence, gore or nudity. The performances aren't too bad for this type of film and I'll at least give director Rob Spera credit by turning in a professional looking picture, which is something a lot of the made-for-VHS films from this era couldn't say. The film does offer up some campy moments including a priest whose face starts to mutate after entering the mother-in-law's house. Another campy moment happens with "visions" coming from a mirror, which is bound to get several laughs. Still, WITCHCRAFT doesn't have anything really going for it that separates it from the pact so there's no real need to see it.
Rather unbelievably, this tepid supernatural thriller, which clearly takes its cues from Rosemary's Baby, has spawned fifteen sequels to date, apparently finding an appreciative audience by including plenty of nudity and soft-core sex. This first film, however, offers nothing in that department: it's dull, uneventful drivel for most of the running time, only coming to life in the final ten minutes where extremely patient viewers are rewarded with a spot of much needed gore, including a decapitation and an impalement.
As a horror movie completist, I now feel compelled to watch the rest in the series, no matter how bad they get: wish me luck I get the feeling I will need it.
It tells the story of a woman who goes to stay with her mother in law after she gives birth to her first child. Trouble is her husband and mother in law aren't what they seem and have ties to the occult.
Watchcraft first of all is unforgivably boring, very little happens. I think it's doing this for the purpose of building tension but it fails miserably.
When things do happen they look so poor as intended impact is lost.
I do hope the franchise improves as I'm 1/16 and suffering already.
The Good:
The fact that the franchise lasted so long is impressive
The Bad:
Very boring
Unoriginal
Generic cliched finale
Things I Learnt From This Movie:
Witchcraft must get better or it wouldn't have lasted so long, right?
Você sabia?
- CuriosidadesThe website, Mr. Skin, posted the top 10 horror series with the most female nude scenes on Oct. 2020. Witchcraft had the most with 77. The list includes Witchcraft (77), Friday the 13th (49), Hellraiser (24), Wrong Turn (17), Piranha (16), Hostel (14), Silent Night, Deadly Night (14), Halloween (14), and Amityville (9).
- Erros de gravaçãoIn the opening credits the word "original" is spelt "origional".
- Citações
[last lines]
Grace Churchill: William!
- ConexõesEdited into Witchcraft III: The Kiss of Death (1991)
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- Witch and Warlock
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