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Démoniaque présence

Original title: La casa 4 (Witchcraft)
  • 1989
  • 12
  • 1h 35m
IMDb RATING
4.3/10
2.5K
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Démoniaque présence (1989)
Horror

A photographer and others are stranded at a Massachusetts island hotel haunted by a woman in black.A photographer and others are stranded at a Massachusetts island hotel haunted by a woman in black.A photographer and others are stranded at a Massachusetts island hotel haunted by a woman in black.

  • Director
    • Fabrizio Laurenti
  • Writers
    • Harry Spalding
    • Daniele Stroppa
  • Stars
    • David Hasselhoff
    • Linda Blair
    • Catherine Hickland
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.3/10
    2.5K
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    • Director
      • Fabrizio Laurenti
    • Writers
      • Harry Spalding
      • Daniele Stroppa
    • Stars
      • David Hasselhoff
      • Linda Blair
      • Catherine Hickland
    • 61User reviews
    • 52Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    David Hasselhoff
    David Hasselhoff
    • Gary
    Linda Blair
    Linda Blair
    • Jane Brooks
    Catherine Hickland
    Catherine Hickland
    • Linda Sullivan
    Annie Ross
    Annie Ross
    • Rose Brooks
    Hildegard Knef
    Hildegard Knef
    • Lady In Black
    Leslie Cumming
    • Leslie
    Robert Champagne
    • Freddie Brooks
    • (as Bob Champagne)
    Rick Farnsworth
    • Jerry Giordano
    Michael Manchester
    • Tommy Brooks
    Frank Cammarata
    • Tony Giordano
    Victoria Biggers
    • Secretary
    Ely Coughlin
    • Satan
    Kara Lynch
    • Cindy
    Jamie Hanes
    • Jon
    • (as James Hanes)
    Richard Ladenburg
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    • Director
      • Fabrizio Laurenti
    • Writers
      • Harry Spalding
      • Daniele Stroppa
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    physcgoth

    Odd

    Ghosthouse 2, Witch House 2, Witchcraft ... La Casa 4 or what ever this movie is called it is very odd I have too say it creeped the hell out of me and Iv seen most horrors pretty much all of Dario Aragento Movies and that other guy who did House by the Cemetery actually out of the two his Directors Dario's Movies are so much more artistic

    Any way Back on Track this movie is just odd scary but also crappy and so many flash that the naked eye can see straight off without watching it 10 times over but yea it has one off the best endings ever and it one of the creepiest witches iv ever seen in a movie ......

    How it maybe would of worked..... if it was planed better not related a sequel to a string of other 100% unrelated films.

    One scene a girl is rapped by ummm something that looks like the devil but id say its a demon as the witch in the movie kinda plays a Lilith Character and we all know Lilith stole the Devils Powers for her self anyway she is rapped by the demon early one and by the end of the film your forget as so much has happened since the last scene is set in a hospital room with the rapped girl being told she is pregnant

    One of 2 reason there was no sequel it would of been just like Rosemarys baby remake or the fact half the film was damaged during taping that the never bothered too release this well on home-video of course

    Also David said before about this a lot of the movie was damaged so screens where re shot and more tape was damaged so they just left it was it was not in there budget too shot more
    sambillings2003

    WITCHERY LINDA BLAIR.....OH I DON'T BELIEVE IT.

    Dear Lord, I wrote a brief synopsis but I guess most of it got edited out. I have got to give it another try. Let me start out by saying. Have you every wanted to rent a horror movie so badly because it was so awful, you knew it would make you laugh your head off?, Well my friends, this is the movie. Don't get me wrong, I Love Linda Blair but this film is a riot from hell. As I stated in my previous notation, Annie Ross who plays Linda's Mother "Rose" in the film actually makes the film hilarious. She is convinced that this abandoned Motel out on an island is going to really be an investment, when they all arrive to view the place, Annie Ross says, "This place is a wreck!, it's going to take a G-damn fortune to fix it up".

    The driver of the boat that has to take the prospective buyers out to the Motel, says, "You had better be ready here before sundown or I am leaving". Annie says, "Hard Nose Bastard". Her husband in the film is a flirt from the work go, he makes pass after pass at the real estate sales person "Linda", who really is hot but she wouldn't give him the time of day, just tease the hell out of him. If you really want to see a horror movie that was done so poorly, please rent this one. I watched it over and over again because I needed a good laugh, and I get one every time I rent this film.

    Linda Blair plays a pregnant lady in the film and goes up to the rest room and sits on the side of the bathtub and begins to open up a bottle of pills, can't get the top off the pills and drops them into this bathtub filled with black water. Something unknown grabs her hand and pulls her through the drain (can you believe it), and she finds herself underground watching some kind of Satanic ritual, passes out and then miraculously wakes up on the floor of the bathroom on her back saying, "My Baby, my Baby". What was that all about?, I sure can't figure it out. Back to "Rose", she is disgusted to the point of no return and says to Linda Blair, "Jane, give me one of your pills", Linda can't find them and believes they must have dropped on the bathroom floor", so Rose says, "WELL THEN, They must still be there"!!!! duh duh. Needless today, each member starts to disappear and of course Rose goes first, after they underground Satanic people tie her lips together, they hang her upside down in the fireplace.

    The remainder of the family,(unbeknownst to them, supposedly,), decide they are cold and want to build a fire. Rose gets microwaved to a crisp, because get this, eventually they start to smell a funny smell coming from the fireplace and then within seconds Rose's body drops almost all the way down in plain view, and when the family realizes it's Rose, all they say is, "Oh, we've got to get out of here". Can you believe it? Gosh what a gas. Rose is supposed to be Linda Blair's' Mother but Linda calls her "Rose" throughout the entire film. There are so many mistakes on this film you would laugh your rear off just counting the mistakes. I would guess that It may have cost the producers about 5,000 dollars to make the film and I would guess it made about 2,000 dollars. That's about 100.00 dollars for each actor. Oh man, I've got to go because I am laughing so hard right now, I can barely type. Go get this film, you've just got to. And if you like Linda Blair, there are about eight or nine movie of this same quality, let me know I'll email you the titles. One is called Grotesque. You've have to get this movie at a movie place that specializes in dull old crap. I'll tell you another film, that it about 10 times funnier than Witchery, "A Woman Obsessed", now this film you will totally pass out laughing at this one, it puts Witchery to shame. I love ya Linda, but ya got to make better choices.
    4BA_Harrison

    JUST about worth it for the gore. Possibly.

    An Italian/American co-production co-starring Linda Blair and David 'The Hoff' Hasselhoff: how could any fan of trashy horror resist such a treat?

    Well, based on the uneventful, extremely tedious, and utterly nonsensical first forty minutes or so, I would have said 'very easily'; thankfully, however, things do eventually get a tad more entertaining with the introduction of several inventive death scenes, and for those lucky enough to find an uncut copy, a smattering of nudity too (unfortunately, my copy was optically edited to remove such offensive material).

    The Hoff stars as Gary, a photographer who accompanies his beautiful girlfriend Leslie (Leslie Cumming) to a run-down hotel on a seemingly deserted island in order to take pictures for her latest project, a book about witches; whilst there, frustrated Gary also hopes to try and cure a bad case of blue balls by relieving Leslie of her virginity.

    His plans for nookie are scuppered, however, by the unexpected arrival of property developers Freddie and Rose Brooks (Robert Champagne and Annie Ross), their pregnant daughter Jane (Blair), son Tommy (Michael Manchester), pretty nymphomaniac architect Linda Sullivan (Catherine Hickland), and estate agent Jerry (Rick Farnsworth), who have come to inspect the island's hotel.

    After explaining their unexpected presence on the island, Gary and Leslie are welcomed by the property's new owners, and when a violent storm suddenly picks up, making it perilous to return to the mainland, everyone agrees to spend the night in the old building. Unfortunately, unbeknownst to the hotel's new guests, the place is also home to the spirit of an evil witch (Hildegard Knef), who requires human sacrifices in order to bring herself back to life. One by one, victims are pulled into a swirling red vortex (which is guaranteed to provide unintentional laughs), before meeting a terrible fate.

    None of this makes much sense, and the acting is atrocious (Manchester as Tommy is particularly bad, whilst Hasselhoff proves to be one of the better performers, which speaks volumes about the others), but those viewers who make it past the dreary first half are rewarded with some pretty decent moments of gore: Rose has her lips sewn together, before being roasted alive in a fireplace; Jerry is crucified and burnt alive; Linda is tortured by hags and impaled on a swordfish(!!); Freddie's veins pulsate and erupt in geysers of blood; and Gary gets stabbed in the back.

    Oh, and Leslie is raped by a guy with no lips and Blair gets possessed (again).
    6Tikkin

    Excellent setting

    I recently picked this up on VHS under the title "Ghosthouse 2", although it has nothing at all to do with the original Ghosthouse film. I was expecting it to be terrible, after reading IMDb reviews, but it actually turned out to be OK. The setting of the film is what gets the most marks from me - I love seeing the shots of the house and island from the sea. It's THE perfect setting for a horror film. I do think it was a little wasted on this particular film though. Never mind.

    The film itself isn't too bad, it just drags a bit in some places and I didn't like the witchcraft theme. I found the scenes where people are transported via that "Doctor Who" style vortex extremely cringe-making. It looked like something from a cheap 80's sci-fi film! Other than that I thought the death of the old woman was excellent - she gets her lips sewn together and is hung upside down above a lit fireplace. She can't scream for help and the others have no idea she's there. Now there's an original death for you! The parts where the helicopter flies around the house are also excellent - the people inside can't signal for help because the house has trapped them inside.

    I would recommend horror fans to give this a watch, it's silly and boring at times but the good bits make up for that.
    brandonsites1981

    * * out of 4.

    A group of people are stranded at an isolated hotel by an evil witch (Hildegard Knef) who possesses them and kills them. I don't understand why the rating for this film is so low on IMDB. It's well made by the standards of the horror genre and featuring a good performance by Knef, some seriously scary scenes, and good effects. It is however unrelently mean and cruel. Unrated; Extreme Violence, Rape, and Profanity.

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    • Trivia
      Producer Joe D'Amato originally hired Luigi Cozzi as the movie's director who at first was involved in pre-production, but ultimately left after realizing that he wasn't allowed to make any script changes. D'Amato replaced him with first-time director Fabrizio Laurenti, while Cozzi went on to direct Paganini Horror (1988).
    • Goofs
      After the helicopter leaves the island, it is the middle of the night when Leslie and Gary first go into the house, yet it is the middle of the day when they finally get upstairs - all in the space of a few seconds.
    • Quotes

      Leslie: God you scared me.

      Gary: Who were you expecting? The Phantom of the Opera?

    • Alternate versions
      The original UK video release (as "Ghosthouse II") was cut by 21 secs by the BBFC to remove a shot of blood spurting from a slashed neck, plus heavily editing the nudity during the orgy scene. The 2001 DVD release (as "Witchcraft") restores the violence from the opening sequence but also uses a slow-motion effect to remove the nudity from the orgy. As the BBFC state that they made no cuts to the film it would appear to have been pre-edited before submission.
    • Connections
      Featured in Joe D'Amato Totally Uncut: The Horror Experience (2001)

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    • Release date
      • February 21, 1990 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • Italy
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Witchery
    • Filming locations
      • 1000 Glades Rd, Scituate, Massachusetts, USA(hotel)
    • Production company
      • Filmirage
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 35 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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