Sometimes when searching for certain films to watch for a particular segment, it is often hard to gauge how a film will fit to the mold you have set. Often when searching for a film that is going to be cheesy enough for Cheeseball Cinema usually you are looking for whether or not the film has bad acting in it. Sometimes a lot of T&A in a film is usually a good sign of a cheesy film. Sometimes, a horror, a comedy, or a combination of both is a good sign of one as well. When searching for one for Eddie’s 31 Days Of Halloween, you just want to watch something that will hopefully spook and entertain you. I definitely took a chance with today’s film Witchcraft which I am not sure about it’s ties to Troma, but it’s featured on their streaming service. The film follows Grace (Anat Topol) who has just had a baby, but suffered from some weird visions of a couple getting burned alive at the stake in the 1600’s. When her husband brings her and the baby to his mothers house, weird visions and occurrences start to haunt poor Grace, but what does it all mean? The film also stars Gary Sloan (Witchcraft II: The Temptress) as John Stocton, Mary Shelley (Witchcraft II: The Temptress) as Elizabeth Stocton, Deborah Scott as Linda, Lee Kissman (Chameleon) as Ellsworth, Alexander Kirkwood (MacGyver) as the Priest, and the film was directed by Rob Spera (Army Wives).
It’s not a surprise to me, but the director is the most successful person from this project which was a little bit of a Rosemary’s Baby knock off. Instead of the woman being pregnant and seeing things, she has already had the baby and she is going crazy. One of the first thoughts in my head when I started watching the film was that it felt like a made for TV film from beginning to end with literally little to no cursing, no T&A (only the insinuation of it), and some of the scene changes made it feel that way. One of the coolest scenes that they do little to explain how he got there was the scene where the priest hung himself. It was out of nowhere and it shocked you, but again no explanation to how he got there. The other cool scene is when here friend Linda gets her head chopped off, but we don’t see by who and it’s never really revealed, but you assume you know who it is. I thought we would get some T&A from Linda, but no dice in this one and that’s OK because the story wasn’t terrible by any means. The acting wasn’t terrible by any means, it just borrowed elements from other films and as I said it’s Rosemary’s Baby but with Witchcraft. There are all kinds of goofs you can find in this one from thew audio of the cutlery not matching in the dinner scene or the scene where you can hear someone walking, but there’s no one in the room other than the two main characters. Take your pick, but I’ll be checking out more from the series soon. I am going to give this film an B- for a final grade.
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