Little Witches

Fred Olen Ray is a self-made filmmaker, the epitome of working his way up from Grade-Z indies to Grade-B, or maybe C.

Here we have an overacted attempted at simulated tv sit-com, namely "Bewitched", with simulated sex at its core. Watching it over a decade late, I was struck how Ray, who started out at the bottom, shooting an end-of-career John Carradine to use the footage in many a pasted-together movie (the way poor Boris Karloff was misused in the '60s at the end of his illustrious career) to end up graduating to ridiculously bland and corny Christmas features for the squeaky-clean Hallmark label.

From a porn point-of-view this is squeaky clean too. Cunnilingus is fairly accurately depicted without the close-ups, fellatio faked, and all the other standard positions like doggystyle and cowgirl present too. No money shots.

Casting is awful: lookalike brunettes to confuse the viewer and even lookalike blondes. Ray regular Christine Nguyen imitating Elizabeth Montgomery's witch fantasy routine is merely lousy. Randy Spears near the end of his porn career (only to be born again as a religioso) is embarrassing.

Most obvious element is a rushed ending plus lots of highlight footage and then a super-slow end credits to pad the movie toward acceptable feature length.

Of course, the pandering to genre fans, not Debbie Rochon for a change, but having Michelle Bauer of both softcore and hardcore fame ham it up as the cliched nosy neighbor is merely time-consuming.