Stars: David Hasselhoff, Linda Blair, Catherine Hickland, Annie Ross, Leslie Cumming, Bob Champion, Michael Manchester

Director: Martin Newlin

Summary: A derelict hotel, which stands as a monument to a former glory, becomes the next location for a fashion shoot. But strange encounters with a old woman lead to a celebration of dark forces and ultimately sacrifice...

A photographer and his wife land on an island inhabited by a witch. There they become the victims of her satanic rites and rituals.

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Once a stalwart of the ex-rental bin, Witchcraftis a sustained riff on Rosemary's Babywith a conventional bit of colonial curse business thrown in. It opens with a pair of witches being burned in Puritan New England, a warlock and his pregnant wife, intercutting the mob justice (in point of fact, witches in America were hanged not burned) with a modern-day woman, Grace (Anat Topol-Barzilai), giving birth. With her new baby, Grace moves into the mansion of her blow-dried yuppie husband (Gary Sloan) and his sinister mother (Mary Shelley, no relation) only to find the place equipped with a hulking mute butler, a haunted mirror and sundry cheap phenomena. When a priest calls to see the baby, he is sick at the sight of the little fellow and then develops a severe case of boils that leads to him hanging himself in front of the heroine. It's not hard to spot the villains behind the conspiracy, and things wind up in the attic with a lively round of decapitations, disembowelments, burnings and sacrifices. Competently directed by Robert Spera, with adequate performances from a no-name cast, a droning synth score and some gruesome moments, it's a thoroughly ordinary picture, no better or worse than hundreds of others. The big mystery is how this 1988 title managed to spin off no fewer than ten sequels, up to the 2000 release Witchcraft XI: Sisters in Blood. --Kim Newman

Aspect Ratio:	4:3 Full Frame
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 0
Special Features:	Chapter Selection
Year:	1988
Release Date:	September 16, 2002
Runtime:	93 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	P P A 1279
Label:	Stax Entertainment
Keywords:	Off, General, Witchcraft, Horror, Occult, Schedule, Sci, Fi, Witchery
Genre:	Horror/Occult