This is another of the films I've "lost" over the years - I saw years ago as a teen but forgot about until I watched it again. It's a pretty good old horror flick.The one thing I did not like about the film was the red light "twilight zone" or "dr. who" vortex but the rest of the movie was decent.The last 20 to 30 minutes of the film was creepy. Once the rescue mission launched and the helicopter reached the island it was very suspenseful! The survivors were trapped in the house due to the witchcraft of the woman in black - and was the most exciting part of the film.Linda Blair was creepy as usual in this movie - and shows us why she's one of the queens of horror.David Hasselhoff did a great job of acting in this film too - he played a good part and important role.I would recommend watching this movie on a rainy afternoon if you are wanting a pretty good scare.7/10

I found this film under the title THE WITCHERY, I'd never seen or heard about it before recently but when I found out Linda Blair was in it I reckoned it could be worth a look since I was already busy trying to find not so well known films from the 80's or they're just not so well known in my country, here the only horror movies people know are Friday THE 13TH, HALLOWEEN and A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, basically you can say if the film wasn't part of a franchise it didn't exist.Anyway, what really sealed the deal for me to watch this film was finding out David Hasselhoff was also in it, I mean the Hoff in a horror movie that's something you won't see everyday, the film itself wasn't bad, I'd expected worse but fortunately it turned out to be very entertaining, although a few of the death scenes were rather sick especially the scene where a woman has her lips sewn shut and I won't spoil the rest of the scene and when you see a set of boobs for the first time in the film is also a creepy moment (I don't mean the boobs I mean what happens in that particular scene).The acting isn't too bad, David Hasselhoff gave a better performance than I expected, the only actor that didn't do so well was the kid but you can't really expect too much from a child actor, otherwise the rest of the cast were good enough to keep this film from being a total disaster.Overall, it was better than I'd expected, it won't win any awards but then again I've seen worst films that have won awards, if you enjoy a few good but sick death scenes and a great atmosphere I'd recommend this film.

Leslie and her boyfriend Gary travel out to an island in search of the witch lights that are reputed to be there as part of her research for a book on witchcraft.Freddie Brooks and his family travel out to the same island to examine the abandoned hotel to consider the possibility of buying it.They all become stranded there.The house's previous owner comes back from the dead in order to drag the visitors down to Hell as bloody sacrifices."Witchery" features some tasteless stuff including satanic rape scene and some nasty gore.The photography is slick and the editing is great.It's nice to see David Hasselhoff and Linda Blair in this stylish Italian shocker.The scene of Leslie Cummins rape by an incubus with his lips sewn shut has to be seen to be believed.8 out of 10.

There are many different versions of this one floating around, so make sure you can locate one of the unrated copies, otherwise some gore and one scene of nudity might be missing. Some versions also omit most of the opening sequence and other bits here and there. The cut I saw has the on-screen title WITCHCRAFT: EVIL ENCOUNTERS and was released by Shriek Show, who maintain the original US release title WITCHERY for the DVD release. It's a nice-looking print and seems to have all of the footage, but has some cropping/aspect ratio issues. In Italy, it was released as LA CASA 4 (WITCHCRAFT). The first two LA CASA releases were actually the first two EVIL DEAD films (retitled) and the third LA CASA was another film by the same production company (Filmirage), which is best known here in America as GHOSTHOUSE. To make matters even more confusing, WITCHERY was also released elsewhere as GHOSTHOUSE 2. Except in Germany, where GHOSTHOUSE 2 is actually THE OGRE: DEMONS 3. OK, I better just shut up now. I'm starting to confuse myself!Regardless of the title, this is a very hit-or-miss horror effort. Some of it is good, some of it isn't. I actually was into this film for the first half or so, but toward the end it became a senseless mess. A large, vacant hotel located on an island about 50 miles from Boston is the setting, as various people get picked off one-by-one by a German- speaking witch (Hildegard Knef). Photographer Gary (David Hasselhoff), who wants to capture "Witch Light," and his virginal writer girlfriend (Leslie Cumming), who is studying witchcraft, are shacking up at the hotel without permission. Along comes real estate agent Jerry (Rick Farnsworth), who's showing off the property to potential buyers Rose (Annie Ross) and Freddie (Robert Champagne) Brooks. Also tagging along are their children; pregnant grown daughter Jane (Linda Blair) and very young son Tommy (Michael Manchester), as well as oversexed architect Linda Sullivan (Catherine Hickland - Hasselhoff's wife at the time). Once everyone is inside, their boat driver is killed (hung) and the boat disappears, so they find themselves trapped and basically at the mercy of the "Lady in Black."So what can you expect to find here? Plenty of unpleasantries! One of the characters has their lips sewn shut and is then hung upside down in the fireplace and accidentally slow-roasted by the rest of the cast. There's also a crucifixion, witches eating a dead baby, a swordfish through the head, someone set on fire, a possession, a Sesame Street tape recorder, the virgin getting raped by some demon, a guys veins bulging and exploding thanks to voodoo doll pokes and some other stuff. From a technical standpoint, it's a nice-looking film with pretty good cinematography, a decent score and good gore effects. The hotel/island setting is also pretty nice. Blair (particularly at the end) and Ross both seem like they're having fun and Knef is great as the evil witch. Even though people like to ridicule Hasselhoff these days, he's not bad in his role, either.On the down side, despite all the gore, the film seems somewhat dull and it gets monotonous after about an hour. The supernatural themes are muddled and confusing, too. When characters are being swept into the witches lair to be tortured and killed, the filmmakers unwisely decided to superimpose the screaming actors over some silly looking red spiral vortex effect that looks supremely cheesy. And the witch lair itself is vacant and cheaply designed with unfinished lumber. And while most of the cast is at least decent, a few of the performances (particularly the "actress" who plays Hasselhoff's girlfriend and the kid) are so bad they're constantly distracting.