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Witchery

Original title: La casa 4 (Witchcraft)
  • 1989
  • R
  • 1h 35m
IMDb RATING
4.3/10
2.6K
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Witchery (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
    2.6K
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    • Director
      • Fabrizio Laurenti
    • Writers
      • Harry Spalding
      • Daniele Stroppa
    • Stars
      • David Hasselhoff
      • Linda Blair
      • Catherine Hickland
    • 61User reviews
    • 53Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    David Hasselhoff
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    • Gary
    Linda Blair
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    • Jane Brooks
    Catherine Hickland
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    • Linda Sullivan
    Annie Ross
    Annie Ross
    • Rose Brooks
    Hildegard Knef
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    • 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
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    Ely Coughlin
    • Satan
    Kara Lynch
    • Cindy
    Jamie Hanes
    • Jon
    • (as James Hanes)
    Richard Ladenburg
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    George Stevens
    • Fisherman
    Bobby Thorndike
    • Father of the girl in the wheelchair
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    • Director
      • Fabrizio Laurenti
    • Writers
      • Harry Spalding
      • Daniele Stroppa
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    4Vomitron_G

    Witchcraft AKA La Casa 4 AKA Witchery AKA Evil Encounters AKA Ghosthouse 2 AKA The Haunted House

    An Italian horror movie with so many juicy AKA titles and starring both Linda Blair and David Hasselhoff... I mean, that has got to be worth it, right? "Witchery" is not even as inept as Umberto Lenzi's "Ghosthouse" - or maybe it is - and it's about as much fun. Hassle Da Hoff is always worth a few chuckles, if you ask me. Linda Blair gets to play her possessed self again, with an exploded hairdo this time. "Witchery" also features a handful of pretty memorable killings (lips sewn tight and burned in the fireplace, pulsating veins popping & squirting and bleeding to death, nailed to the cross and burned like a witch upside down, etc). This movie really ain't wrapped too tight, and there lies the beauty of it all: Italian genre movies from the 80's are usually a pretty bonkers affair altogether (that ghostly rape of a virgin was a winner! - yes, there's boobies). Safe to say I enjoyed "Witchery", more than I thought I would . Both Lenzi's first one (Italian title: "La Casa 3") and this unrelated, unofficial second film are recommended viewings if you like your haunted house stuff trashy, gory and Italian-style. Much like a big, greasy pizza, these movies aren't exactly nutritious, but they're tasty as hell.
    3TheOldGuyFromHalloween3

    Don't Hassle the Hoff

    Master thespian David Hasselhoff and his female equivalent Linda Blair team up with a chick who looks like Daphne Zuniga and a chick who looks like Christina Applegate and other assorted weirdos in this remake of And Then There Were None. This movie is so low budget I'm surprised they could afford a helicopter. Not to be missed.
    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
    5Bernie4444

    David Hasselhoff and Linda Blair

    "Witchery" (1989) If it was not for such great popular actors this movie would be lost in obscurity. David Hasselhoff played Prince Simon in Starcrash (1978). Linda Blair played Ida Mae in "Married with Children" TV Series (1986-1997).

    Strange things happen like the film runtime is stated as 95 minutes or 96 uncut. But the DVD I placed in the player says 1:36.50 minutes. There are no subtitles so you might have to play the German parts over again as they slur. There is not an overabundance of background music which makes the phony background music more impressive when they use it.

    We get a lot of amateur-stilted dialogs; you are just going to have to get over it if you are to make it through the movie.

    Linda Sullivan (Catherine Hickland) is a witchy researcher and an overdue virgin. She and her quazi boyfriend investigate a derelict hotel on the coast of Massachusetts.

    Same time a family is looking to purchase the hotel. We get to see the boat captain hanging around, an intrepid German actress, a weird portal (like "Hot Tub Time Machine",) a dumb waiter, and much more.

    They have time to reflect and so do we. Did I watch the whole thing?

    Looks like it could be a pilot for a TV series.
    ParaGraph

    Oh, my God!

    That movie has been produced and directed by the same people, who enriched the world of cinema with such masterpieces, as Troll 2, The Crawlers... Well, although this movie is not THAT horrible and ridiculous, as Troll 2 and Crawlers, although special effects (done by the same italian "Greg Cannom" (Mrs. Doubtfire, Bram Stocker´s Dracula, Titanic, etc.) Maurizio Trani, who have done some poor FX for Troll 2 and Crawlers, this movie stinks anyway. It´s a low-budget hilarity, where the characters behave as nobody would in real life. It also contains some episodes from the first part of this masterpiece (Casa 3, or Ghosthouse (1987), and which is in no way better. All these four movies were produced by an ultra low-budget company Filmirage. By the way, they had used the SAME score in Crawlers and in Witchery! What a shame!

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    • Trivia
      Fabrizio Laurenti originally wanted to cast Bette Davis as the Lady in Black. Incidentally, Davis is said to have dabbled in witchcraft in her spare time.
    • 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
      • August 6, 1989 (Italy)
    • Country of origin
      • Italy
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • La endemoniada
    • Filming locations
      • 1000 Glades Rd, Scituate, Massachusetts, USA(hotel)
    • Production company
      • Filmirage
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 35m(95 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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