Necromancer

After pretty blonde drama student Julie (Elizabeth Kaitan) is raped by a trio of privileged sleazeballs, she pays a visit to a necromancer (Lois Masten Ewing) who summons a shape-shifting demon to take revenge. When the demon starts killing those who have wronged her, Julie has a change of heart and accepts help from magic obsessed weirdo Ernest (Waide Aaron Riddle).

Cheap as chips supernatural rape revenge flick Necromancer is a fairly dreadful straight-to-video bottom shelf filler, with weak performances and woeful visual effects (the demon's eyes are hilarious), the only positives being some topless nudity from its shapely star Kaitan, and one gory scene at the very end.

The remainder of the film is bloodless (unless you count the watery red stuff that erupts from the world's ugliest bathroom), totally devoid of scares, and bereft of originality. Russ Tamblyn puts in a passable turn as pervy drama teacher Charles, who abuses his position to get laid, but the majority of the cast are plain bad (and what's with those green 'horns' in Ernest's hair?).

Oh, and if you're ever called upon by a friend to help her defeat a demon of vengeance, please blow out any lit candles in your house before you leave.

While I am all for cheesy 80s horror movies and taking movies for what they aim to do and not comparing them with classic films, this one just doesn't cut it. I guess some find the main actress to be attractive, I don't. Unfortunately she is the only one who several nude scenes. The problem of course is that when all the victims are male there is not possibility of of having more female characters to put in the nude. The special effects are not very good even for the standards of the time, nor is there any suspense or excitement. The idea is not bad overall, a supernatural revenge thriller. However, the resolution of it all is just too forced and unsatisfying. The performances are atrocious except for Charles DeLonge.

My review was written in March 1989 after watching the film on Forum video cassette.

Modest horror pic uses the ever-popular revenge motif for this supernatural tale bowing domestically in video stores.

Attractive, round-faced Elizabeth Kaitan oplines (in her biggest role to date) as an acting student who's gang-raped by classmates but blackmailed to avoid reporting it.

Her roommate talks her into answering a "revenge" adi in the paper.

Lois Masten is the gypsy-styled necromancer who places these ads. She's in touch with the devil and uses a client's revenge request as license to go hog wild killing people, with the hapless instigator unable to stop her. In Kaitan's case, Masten demonically assumes Kaitan's form, seduces the rapists and then offs them (with minimal makeup and gore effects).

Okay acting saves this low-budgeter, which spotlights Kaitan's beauty in a multiple role. Russ Tamblyn has fun as her lecherous, Shakespeare-spoutin acting performance.

I'm not a very critical person, at least when comparing myself to those who regularly review movies but I found myself painfully aware of watching acting. These actors were not able to suspend my disbelief for even a short time. The actors seem stiff and fake. The script didn't do any favors for the cast either. I really have to be honest here and recommend that everyone is better off staying far away from this abomination!

"Necromancer" is a sort of slasher, a sort of revengeploitation flick, and a sort of demonic possession horror movie. One thing's for sure, though, it's a full-fledged hoot of an 80s low-budget crowd-pleaser! That's how I experienced it, at least, because most of the other reviews I read around here are harsh and negative. Of course the special effects are poor, and the demonic green eyes look ridiculous! Just don't allow this to ruin the fun, that is my advice!

Super smoking hot college student Julie (80s horror babe Elizabeth Kaitin of "Nightwish", "Silent Madness", and "Friday the 13th: Part VII") gets raped and kind of blackmailed by the school's resident bullies. Since her musician boyfriend doesn't ever let her finish a sentence, Julie's friend takes her to a professional necromancer. Apparently, the simply place ads in the paper and hold office in a messy garage box! The brunette succubus shape-shifts into Julie's luscious body to attack her assailants, but obviously she doesn't do it to help Julie but to grow more powerful herself.

"Necromancer" is a typical product of the 80s! Half of the dialogues and situations would downright infuriate nowadays audiences. It was the time when rapists were still convinced their victims secretly enjoyed rough assaults, when pervert teachers threatened to give bad grades if the female student didn't allow them to grab their intimate parts, and when nerds with skateboards and odd haircuts snuck into people's houses to "investigate" supernatural stuff. In short, "Necromancer" is a must in case you enjoy gratuitous toplessness, cheesy demonic claws and teeth, and mushy 80s synthesizer pop-songs! Oh, and also if you want to see what the world's ugliest bathroom looks like!