Witchcraft VI

This extremely cheap waste of time is more concerned with gratuitous female nudity than anything of interest in the so-called "plot." Two donut-eating, wisecracking cops enlist the aid of retired, now good warlock Will Spanner (Jerry Spicer) to help track down a Satanic serial killer. The evil leader is an old, dyed-blonde bar owner with a huge forehead who sends out a beautiful vixen (Shannon McLeod) and a muscular guy with a "nice butt" (Craig Stepp) to seduce, then sacrifice lots of silicone-enhanced blonde bimbos.

If you think the acting, photography, dialogue and lighting are bad, just wait until you see the FX. Scenes of belly buttons turning into Satanic stars and a solar eclipse that eventually shoots laser beams (?!) are among the worst effects ever to hit the small screen. Spicer having sex in the bathtub with his wife (Debra Beatty) is the only memorable part.

Do yourself a favor and forget this awful direct-to-video series even exists!

Director Julie Davis also scripted, and shows none of the talent that made her indy romantic-comedy I LOVE YOU, DON'T TOUCH ME! (1997) so enjoyable.

Although it pretends to be a horror film, this is really soft core porn at its sleaziest. The good thing is, it's pretty funny at times, and the tongue and cheek style makes an otherwise run of the mill horror pic watchable. Hustler centerfold Stefania Swinney is drop dead gorgeous as the innocent victim at the beginning of the film.

Not as bad as your lead to believe. This is a very long series of movies so not everyone is going to be a hit out of the park. But you should at least give it a chance and you should not go into this expecting anything more than a B-movie because that's exactly what you're going to get. Still decent either way.

So why 10 out of 10? Mainly to counteract the "Academy". The Academy believes that no film which does not deal directly with some left-wing (gay anything!) societal issue, have a completely depressing ending, or at the very least involve unattractive actors mumbling philosophical nonsense to each other in Swedish or French has any right to be seen. Not so! Klaus Kinski in Herzog's "Aguirre, the Wrath of God" is tedious enough to make me want to peel off my own flesh. Stephanie Swinney in "Witchcraft 6", on the other hand, leads me to believe that some flesh just needs to be appreciated. It should be remembered that in its beginnings cinema never aspired to the status of art. It was entertainment pure and simple. That some film has indeed achieved the status of art is both inarguable and laudable, but it would be unwise to denigrate that which aims to merely titillate or entertain.

This film was made as its company Academy Pictures was about to close for good. Film deals with the devil trying to find a wife via two evil devil worshipping people. Not much horror to this tale as most of the cast spends most of the films running time out of their clothes and getting it on. The absolute worst of an already terrible series of films. 1 out of 10.