This time, the shooting took place without a chic mansion or even its scenery, locking itself in a typical average house, where the witch Lilith la Fay will be disfigured - the main antagonist of the trilogy. People engaged in the production were reduced to a minimized number of five people, special effects were limited to light flashes with a small makeup, and screen murders - trivial ketchup. All this builds a frank low-budget semi-amateur film "straight-on-video", which is unlikely to degrade high praise in its address.
However, the thing is that only an unprepared viewer will consider the movie from a monosyllabic angle (and will be right in his own way, indisputably), because the Thrash lover has a slightly different position (also claiming to be right). Any person with a Western b-movie "on you" must initially grab all the specifics before viewing. Since the producing studio was a fruitful "Full Moon", and the yard was the beginning of the two thousandth, the design came out predictable when these authors experienced not the brightest days in the production of horror. It was then and up to the present day that firm laws were established: an extremely small number of actors, timekeeping a little more than an hour, restrained financial resources. Directed by J.R. Bookwalter (J.R. Bookwalter) is no less iconic character in semi-amateur creeps made on an ultra-low budget. By the way, he is also, by tradition, an editor, a producer, and a co-writer of the script. The main roles were invited to the famous “Scream Queens” from category B: Brinke Stevens (Brinke Stevens) – a veteran of the genre, in the image of the main witch, and Debbie Rochon (Debbie Rochon) – her modern shift, playing the center heroine, interested in various mysticism with witchcraft.
So it turns out that it is especially important how they managed to play a story made with a ridiculous budget of $ 26,000 and on their own living space, and it is not appropriate to criticize such a movie. Being unprofessional, it does not stand any comparative parallels with the generally accepted serious fundamental paintings. It's like hitting a bedridden man.
The written story turned out to be dual. At first, we see a trio of girls who decided to perform a ritual from a magic book, addressing a witch from Salem. The reason is for jokes to make a documentary about witchcraft, but soon they begin to be haunted by a ghost in black robes. From such a basis could emerge a slasher or thriller, but the author does not provide a hint of the expected series of murders, which for the entire timekeeping will be much less than the actors and without the use of props, and action scenes with the appearing frightening witch is very stingy on the spectacle, where much lies in the reception with fog and a series of flashes of light in pitch darkness. Consequently, the rhythm sags, condescending into semi-domestic sketches or simple dialogues. However, the climax is well spelled out, intriguing with the denouement, giving an unpredictable move, where the ghost is not the only enemy to the characters of the film, appearing in a different light. This is an achievement. In stylistics - no humor, and a measured immersion in the whirlpool of a mystical story, however, in the spirit of the ancestor of the trilogy "Witchouse".
As a result, it turns out that, as always, Thrash lives in his small cozy, but awkward world, where strangers-viewers pass by, but connoisseurs of creations made by fans of the genre almost on bare enthusiasm from improvised means can get some pleasure. True, the film in question, even within the narrow framework of independent productions, does not shine with the freshness of ideas with particular appeal.
Personally, I usually sympathize with people who do not have the proper funds, but persistently shoot creations in their favorite genre with like-minded enthusiasts with invited “stars” b-movie, who also work in front of the camera for the lowest fees, often guided only by passion for their work, and I hope I made an acquaintance for you to watch or not.
4 out of 10