Sorceress II: The Temptress

The first 'Sorceress' delivered female nudity by the boatload with a silly witchcraft story and 'Sorceress II: The Temptress' does much the same. However now they've gone the extra length to cheaply reuse footage. Julie Strain doing her spell ritual in the nude / the car crash opening, the credit title sequence and the wacky "was-it-a-dream?" finale. All this from the first title and pretty awful ... even for a T&A flick.

Written & directed by Richard Styles who gave us 'Midnight Tease 2', but fingerprints of Jim Wynorski all over it. This time around is about a cosmetics company ran by witches (Julie Strain, Julie K. Smith & Jenna Bair) and the newly hired marketing exec Paul (Greg Wrangler). You know where this is going. They want his soul. Boobs, sex, nightmares and a battle of good vs evil complete with supernatural lasers.

I must admit the cheesy goings on made me chuckle a few times. Paul slowly figuring things out thru dialog, resisting being seduced and given a silly backstory. Multiple fireball car wrecks, silly visual effects pass for magic and a bunch of supporting characters who die with the highlight being a physiatrist hypnotized by a pentagram necklace or maybe Julie K's cleavage. Fielders choice (lol).

'Sorceress' was very bare bones, but you get the sense there was an attempt at an actual b-movie story with 'Sorceress II: The Temptress'. Much of it not very good, but more cheesy charm than before. Sandahl Bergman has a role as a good witch (no nudity) and Julie Strain doesn't get the same nude focus as before. Still a healthy dose of boobs, but the quality is pretty much what you expect.

This flick got me in a bad mood right from the start: the opening scene is identical to that of the first "Sorceress" - to the extent of lifting most of its footage! It's a very lazy way to start your film. Later on, there is one well-done sequence of a car out of control in a highway, crashing into other cars and getting crashed by them; and there are some beautiful women to look at (none of the standards of Kristina Ducati from the original though - only Lynn Daly comes close); apart from these points, "Sorceress II" has little of value to offer. The story is murky, the special effects battles are schlocky (I still wonder why people who are capable of shooting magical rays from their hands would engage in contact fighting), and apparently someone thought it would be a good idea to repeat the first film's APPALLING ending (again, lifting some of its footage), dropping the grade of this film even further, to a * out of 4.

This is probably one of the worst movies ever made. Eliminate the scenes with the girls and it is far and away the WORST movie ever to crawl out of a camera.

Now this is a MUST see for film students on how NOT to make a movie.

1) Watch the dialogue. This movie has enough dialogue for four movies and it is thoroughly unnecessary. Movies are about MOVEment, action, pretty pics and scenes - dialogue is only necessary to set up the action. Take this movie's script and cut out 75% of the dialogue.

2) You paid for hot chicks... USE THEM! Find a way to advance the plot while the girls are putting suntan lotion on each other or helping get each other ready. Having characters just stand around jaw-jacking is inexcusably stupid.

3) PAY for an actor! I don't know where they got this guy but he was NO actor! Even a dumb, campy movie can be sunk with poor acting and seeing as the majority of the action seems to come from this dweeb - why would you hire a non-actor?

4) Realism is important. In one scene, Julie Smith does an incredible strip tease in front of El Dorko ending up on his bed with her legs up. He rolls his eyes and says "Maybe some other time." My wife and I couldn't stop laughing - it was probably one of the dumbest things we'd ever heard!

5) Now this is important: Make the box FIRST then look at it and think. Hmmmm... people want to watch a movie like we have on the box - let's do THAT one!

Seriously - I have no clue how the producer managed to pay for Julie Smith, Julie Strain and yet had no money for a script or male actor.