Review of Witchtrap

Witchtrap (1989)
6/10
When you just want to get rid of that pesky uncle who haunts the house he left you!
25 May 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Yes, you have a haunted house, what do you do? You allow paranormal investigators into it to try and rid the ghost. However, I recommend not hiring the group whose lead is an atheist, because that is mildly stupid. This film was entertaining and I liked the lead guy, but the whole I am a ghost hunter and an atheist was the most incredibly stupid plot point in the history of movies. If you are an atheist, you do not believe in spooks, mediums and such. She literally watches her husband get taken over and talks about how stupid the religious tomfoolery is.

The story, a guy apparently inherited a house from his uncle who was a illusionist and practicing devil worshiper. I mean, he has a magic cloak for his act and a temple of Satan upstairs so you know the guy was bad. That and like other movies with witch in the title he is a older man with a beard because that equaled evil in the maker of this film's mind as he also wrote Witch Board. Well the guy who inherited the house hires a team of paranormal investigators to go in to expel the ghost and proceeds to waste his money more by hiring a team of detectives to protect the investigators. Of course, they get there and run into the strange caretaker who literally jumps someone the moment he is yelled at and then Linnea is killed right away as she gets nude in the shower! No! That death hurt me! Then the deaths keep mounting as the specter tries to resurrect himself!

Someone wrote here that this is a spoof of Witch House, but no it isn't. For some reason a lot of people like to make themselves seem smart by acting as if a filmmaker is going to make a film a spoof, but then not advertise it as a comedy, have a serious tone and make the fact it is a spoof that is so vague that only people years later will catch on, thus making no money on this fact at all. Sure, that is what it was alright. Some people say the same thing about that killer robot cop film R. O. T. O. R too.

So, I liked this film, it was entertaining, but it does have the glaring story points that are illogical. The lead guy is pretty cool and makes the film and Linnea is in this, but she like takes off her clothes, gets killed and calls it a day. There are some pretty fun deaths and some good gore here and there. There are also some very lengthy scenes where people are just talking, like I said, it was pretty good, but I feel I am stretching it giving a six as there are a lot of flaws!
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