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  Review by Ian West ★★ 6

  Has all the ingredients for something I would like... maybe even love—but a semi cool head explosion and that shower Death scene aren’t enough to combat boredom.

  Kevin Tenney’s Witchtrap is a total snoozefest for me—with some very poorly dubbed dialogue (the majority of movies I watch are dubbed so it’s gotta be a real travesty for me to even bring that up) and stagnant performances delivered by actors (minus Linnea Quigley but she’s BARELY in it) who you’d think would bring some sort of whacky charisma to such a substandard, generic, supernatural coma inducer but that’s not the case. Last time I watched this was on vhs, but not even a somewhat decent blu transfer can wash away everything…

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  Review by Tony the Terror 🎃 ★★½ 10

  This was so silly and bad and most of it wasn’t in a “so bad it’s good” way but more of a “me and my overly sarcastic ass are gonna skewer this” kinda way. It’s definitely something to watch with friends.

  I do love the ridiculous 80’s plot even if it’s entirely questionable. A guy inherits a huge house that is haunted by the ghost of a witch. Everyone he’s sent there to deal with it has been killed. He read somewhere that a similarly haunted house in New Orleans was turned into a successuhotel and that’s what he wants to do with this one so he hires group of paranormal investigators to...well, that’s where it gets iffy. He wants the…

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  Review by belial_carboni ★★★½ 1

  Hey doc, my brain is mad foggy and I don't know where I am today, what do you recommend? Ummm well take two Witchtraps and call it a day! Ok doc thanks! I feel better already!

  This might not be my favourite Kevin Tenney film but it's by far the most outrageous. Sure Night of the Demons and Witchboard are cheesy and low budget but Witchtrap takes it to a wholeeeeee another level dayummmmm.

  You all know I am no stranger to bad acting and deadpan dialogue but Witchtrap is near the top in that category. People just reading their lines in monotone fashion sucking the life out of my dang brain! Why do they talk like empty shells of…

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  Review by RCDoom9113 ★★★★ 6

  I have quite a few directors whose works I follow very closely. Some of these are the usual classic directors, Scorsese and Tarantino for example, but most are members of the so called Splatpack. This usually comes to be because, like most of us that do this, I find myself watching a movie by one director or another for the first time and find myself enjoying it so damned much that I just have to find everything they've ever done thinking that each movie will be as amazing as that first experience. Kevin (S) Tenney is one of those directors for me. The first movie I saw by him was Night of the Demons from 1988 and it was so…

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  Review by belial_carboni ★★★½ 10

  4 minutes in and there's already a guy jumping through window scene. All aboard! This film is nuts. Ultra cheesy, gory, bizarre and some of the weirdest delivery of lines ever. Its like it transcends so bad it's good acting into a whole other dimension of absurd. So bad it's a high school play bad. Which translates to amazing in belial world.

  From the director of Night of the Demons and Withboard comes this story of a possessed house, psychics, seances and bumbling police officers. This film reminded me a bit of Witchboard but even more cheesy and low budget. The same warlock actor guy from Witchboard is in this too so it also feels comparable that way.

  Every character…

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  Review by 💀EmperorCupcake🧁 ★★★ 4

  November Horror 2020, Day 16, challenge #12 - talked about on The Horror Show podcast

  I really like Night of the Demons and Witchboard, so I had to check this out. It lacks the charm and personality of those films but has its own... qualities? It starts out promising with a photograph that growls like a tiger (?) and somehow chases a man in a spangly jacket through a house and right out a window. You have my attention! Cut to... boobs. Of course. (No, not Linnea Quigley yet. But we'll get there.)

  "One of these days you're gonna go too far. And then I'm gonna take you down a peg. Look, this is the bottom line. It's a dog eat…

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★ 1

  One of those "Now this is happening" movies, careening through a nonsensical series of kills and cliches at near lightspeed. A little bit POLTERGEIST, a little bit PRINCE OF DARKNESS, and a lot stupid. One of Linnea Quigley's best death scenes too.

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  Review by Dave Edwards ★★★

  For me, Kevin Tenney’s Witchtrap is a low-fi Prince of Darkness in relation to setup — a remote location with parapsychologists trying to get to the bottom of a paranormal event. It’s nowhere near as good as Carpenter’s classic but it’s deeply weird and successfully maintains a dreamlike tone. The kills are a lot of fun*, gory and have a certain “what the fuck” aura about them. The performances are goofy but don’t feel out of place since it’s obvious nobody involved is taking things too seriously and embracing the parade of horror movie cliches. A pretty fun bad movie! 

  *Linnea Quigley gets an all-timer

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  Review by Tears_in_Rain ★★★

  Scavenger of Human Sorrow (A Spooky Season Marathon)

  Spooky Season Ranked (2022)

  This needed less yapping and more (witch)trapping.

  I don't know. I expected more from the director of Night of the Demons. It's definitely the kind of schlocky nonsense I usually adore, but it turned out to be a huge gore-tease. There are maybe four standout moments interspersed throughout a sea of badly acted and poorly written dialog. It's enough to make this a fun watch, at times, but not enough that I'd be eager to revisit it.

  I'll admit, however, that the shower kill was cool. Don't think I've seen that before. The ghost-propelled bullet was kinda cool as well.

  Watched with Jozlyn

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  Review by MushiMinion ★★★★ 2

  With performances so bad you'd be better off pumping the script through a Speak & Spell, Witchtrap is already off on the right foot with undeniable charm. Just when you feel yourself unable to take anymore Samurai Cop tier banter, an incredible practical effect will jar your senses and leave you refreshed for more punishment, like say, an exploding head or Linnea Quigley getting deep throated by a showerhead.

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  Review by maskull ★★★ 3

  This is pretty weak as a horror film, except for a head exploding, a face melting and Linnea Quigley dying naked...again. What I really enjoyed was the one-liners, awful dialogue, and the stilted way in which every line is delivered by most of the cast. I'm sure it's because they're bad actors and not a choice made by the director, but it keeps this movie from becoming a total bore to sit through.

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  Review by Callisto ★★★

  This same director made Night of the Demons the year before? What the hell? The drop in quality is...astounding, at least for its acting. Everyone delivers their lines in only a way you'd imagine. After everyone does this for over twenty minutes, I admit I got used to it. (I also can't tell if everyone is dubbed or the sound just sounds that way.) There are some good uses of camerawork for the ghost's POV, and I enjoyed the cinematography once the parapscyhologists (ghost hunters) get to the haunted building. Maybe the acting is trying to capture what real ghost hunters sound like when they speak, so I think they succeed with that. Maybe the director met some real ghost…