Psyched by the 4D Witch (A Tale of Demonology) (1973) User Reviews

Very very very very very bad. But not the worst ever.

[Scott_Mercer · 2/10 · 11 February 2008]

Putting this film on a DVD with "Monstar-a-Go-Go" was really a stroke of genius for this film's reputation, because MAGG is so awful that it makes this poorly-assembled collection of audio and images look GOOD.

Seriously, I put this film on the TV at a party with the sound turned down, and on that level, it had some merit: flaky, trippy, visuals that lent some visual interest in the background. "What the H IS THIS???" asked more than one person. I was forced to go into an explanation, which left the people utterly befuddled and looking as if they had been struck about the head and shoulders with a lead bong.

On that level, I can not recommend PBT4W, but I hope I have at least provided some kind of scenario in which it would not be a net deficit. Use this information as you will.

Something Weird, and then some

[Leofwine_draca · 2/10 · 4 May 2018]

Notable for being one of the oddest titles that Something Weird put out on VHS back in the day, PSYCHED BY THE 4D WITCH has a great, obtuse title and nothing else to recommend it. It's an independent feature which plays out with a maximum of psychedelic imagery and chaos, with a rambling narrator speaking over a collection of imagery which is variously witchcraft and horror-related. At one point a guy with vampire fangs wanders around a forest. There's also enough nudity to make this a skin flick. It's quite dreadful, only suitable for real lovers of the obscure and chaotic.

Jaw droppingly bad...and weird...and strange...and just bad...in a funny sort of way

[dbborroughs · 1/10 · 20 January 2008]

There is a point where one sees things that one can't watch because its so hysterically funny one will die from laughter from continued viewing.

There is a point where on realizes that those who have deemed Ed Wood and his films the worst ever made never looked hard enough. (anyone who starts down the road of bad movies is aware of this almost instantly- but I digress) There are times when you watch a movie you can feel your brain being cut up as it claws in desperation to get out of your head.

Occasionally people can actually release their home movies to theaters and have people pay to see them.

Psyched by the 4d Witch is a prime example of all of the above and more...you'll pray it isn't true but it is...

This is a movie that is rated R, it even says so in the credits, because of nudity and sex. I think its because the film makers were desperate to have a reason for people to see this movie.

This is a movie about Cindy who's a virgin and through the use of sexual witchcraft and the help of a dead ancestor who was a witch is able to have sex and remain a virgin. Oh yea baby.

There is no dialog only voice over as Cindy and two other people relate the story to you over footage that is a combination someones vacation film and the sort of stuff that is worse than what I used to shoot in 8 mm, with the exception that my stuff never had a naked blonde in it. (She's a babe) Adding to it all is a whacked out sense of odd lights and bad Halloween decorations that make a first graders haunted house seem scary.

Words fail me.

The film opens with a woman dancing to the theme song in a style similar to the James Bond films, only worse. Its a moment that makes you say "WTF?" even if you don't use profanity you will as you see this.

After the opening credits we get film of someones trip to a college inter-cut with a naked girl practicing witchcraft. I know this is what she's doing because of the voice over.

Then we get weird lights and masks and you end up on the floor convulsed from laughter wondering how in the hell this ever got released.

The Something Weird website said its from a rare 35mm print, my guess is its the only one in existence. I would hate to think that this was actually inflicted on enough paying customers that they needed more than one print or that it actually had a run in several theaters (hey, I bought this disc used) This is a movie to be enshrined in infamy. This is bad film making as high art. This is get drunk and MST3K this sucker to death.(The only reason it wasn't on the show was that its too easy to make fun of, besides its the movie that probably would have broken the boys) DO NOT TAKE DRUGS WHILE WATCHING THIS FILM. Consumption of mind altering drugs will only result in the movie making sense, and where's the fun in that.

This is beyond bad and twice as jaw dropping. Ed Wood could only aspire to be this awful. Gay necrophilia vampirism with bad teeth are the words of the day.

If you like to see bad. mind altering movies see this...

If you want to laugh at a truly (and I mean that) awful film see this. This is below the bottom of the barrel at its worst.

When Monster A-Go Go is the _good_ half of the double feature, you're in trouble.

[jeff-993 · 1/10 · 28 October 2006]

This is probably the worst movie I've ever seen. Mostly it consists of voice-over and randomly assembled footage; the footage is typically a girl undressing and hanging around what is (I think) Los Angeles City College - the pretext involves a Salem witch who was burned at the stake and in the present day of the early 1970s convinces a descendant to embark on sexual adventures. I suppose this premise isn't inherently the worst thing on earth, but the execution is horrendous - it's amoral, boring, and irritating all at the same time, which is a pretty unique combination. It's a rare movie that can pull off this trifecta of awful. For all those people who say that modern mass-market movies made by Hollywood like (just for example) Saw 2 or The Village or Flyboys are 'the worst movie ever made', they need to see this to see how much lower than those bad movies cinema can actually reach; this is a true cinematic nadir.

Supernaturally annoying

[HSauer · 1/10 · 23 July 2002]

This is a silent film with a heavy overlay of narration, provided by several of its fictional characters, and a cool musical soundtrack illegally swiped from LPs. A short list of composers whose works are featured in 4-D WITCH includes: Mussorgsky ("Night on Bald Mountain"), Wagner (the finale of TRISTAN UND ISOLDE, scored for piano and orchestra), Rimsky-Korsakov ("Scheherazade"), and Pink Floyd (the 1968 studio version of "Saucerful of Secrets").

Basically, 4-D WITCH is just a series of erotic events strung together by narrators. I enjoyed the narration of "Cindy," the central character whose flirtation with sexual witchcraft gives the movie its focus. Whoever provided her voice did a great job characterizing Cindy as a "game young innocent." Dial enough 1-900 numbers and you may get to speak with her yourself.

Visually, 4-D WITCH is a mess, with psychedelic light shows, bizarre superimposed images of masks and frightening faces, and occasional straight shots of the characters that serve as "establishing shots" for the special effects. Everybody seems caught up in a psychic whirlpool, from which the only way out is down, down, down.

Despite its interesting and amusing elements, the film's amateurish editing, the incoherence of the "plot" and the random/shuffle nature of the soundtrack all help 4-D WITCH to overstay its welcome long before the final reel starts rolling. The abrupt, unresolved ending would be confusing, were it not a great relief! Someone should convert 4-D WITCH into a "loop" and send it to Abu Ghraib, where it can be put to its best possible use.

It's amazing some of the stuff the early 70's threw up

[Red-Barracuda · 5/10 · 12 November 2010]

People on drugs made this film. The NHS could save an absolute fortune in communicating their anti-drug message, when really all they need to do is get hold of this film and show it in schools and television. The immediate effect would be to turn children and impressionable adults away from hallucinogenic drugs. To be honest, it might even make Keith Richards think again.

This truly mind-numbing feature is nothing if not a one-off. It tells its silly story via the medium of psychedelic effects. Sounds good? Yeah it sounds alright I agree. But at 80 minutes in length it overstays its welcome by a long way. This would've been OK as a short; it's mind-boggling as a full length feature. There is no synchronized sound; everything is conveyed via a voice-over. This makes it become increasingly hard to pay attention, and you will find yourself slowly losing touch with the bizarre events happening on screen; by the conclusion I expect a lot of you will just be relieved.

In theory this film should be good but it isn't. It's very weird though, so that at least is always something.

EDIT: I watched this again on 27/03/19 and actually rather enjoyed it. How baffling.

Oh my God, did that suck

[[e-mail] · 1/10 · 9 November 2005]

I watched this movie back to back with "Monster a Go-Go," and haven't been functioning on all brain cylinders since. The plot, or lack there of, was completely incoherent, the camera work was awful, the entire soundtrack was dubbed over after-wards and the acting was down right hideous. Did they think that psychedelic effects, classical music and nudity would be able to get this thing out of the toilet? I guess I know what happened to all of the bad acid in the 60's now, these idiots ate it and decided to make a movie revolving around a witch trying to seduce a young virgin into having fantasy sex adventures. AAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHH.

Words fail to describe how horrible this film was. I would rather watch a documentary on the making of "Manos the hands of fate" than watching this again. Someone is definitely going to hell for having released this into the general public. I take that back, it wasn't released it escaped.

Please, if you value your sanity, don't watch this.

Okay

[Michael_Elliott · 27 February 2008]

Psyched by the 4D Witch (1972)

** (out of 4)

Insane little sexploitation flick about Cindy, a female virgin who won't even masturbate even though she wants to experience an orgasm. Wanting to keep her virginity, she learns that her aunt was a witch so she sells her soul to her and Satan in exchange for "Fantasy Fu*ks". This is an incredibly strange and psychedelic film, which works pretty well with the exception that it runs way too long even at just over 80-minutes. There's countless nudity, lesbian sex and other strange doings, which keep the film moving. The film was recorded silent and then voiceovers were added along with a trippy music score, which works pretty well. There's really nothing great about this movie but it ranks among one of the better sexploitation flicks I've seen.

Didn't like it - but I could appreciate it

[werethemeatmenandyousuck · 5/10 · 12 March 2010]

This is something that only could have been made in the early 70's. Its more of an acid trip than a movie. I wouldn't be surprised if this had been shot as a full on porn but then cut to be released as "art" when they realized how bad it was. It actually makes it funnier to have these abrupt cuts in the very, very un-sexy sex scenes. The film stock looks burnt and scratched most of the time and there is no audio for the actors, its all voice over narration. Low budget and amateur to its very core.

But, I'd always rather see something that sucks because its so weird that sucks because its the same as everything else - that's why it gets a 5.

This is one of the weirdest movies you will ever see!

[phage739 · 8/10 · 15 February 2002]

This is one of the weirdest movies you will ever see. A young college girl dabbles in "sexual witchcraft" (whatever that is?) and becomes possessed by her witch ancestor from psychic realm! This movie is a collage of dubbed over live action scenes inter mixed with shots of masked women, snake puppets, planetarium laser shows,palm trees, solar system footage, and a variety of other narrated psychedelic nonsense.Think Thrill Kill Kult video! You have to see it to believe it. It even has a gritty seventies rock theme "Beware of the 4-D Witch."

Let's Fantasy F--- NOW!

[ethylester · 7/10 · 14 September 2003]

I am a little embarrassed to say I enjoyed this movie. It was entertaining, but also it struck me as quite funny at times. The plot is a girl has never had sex nor an orgasm. So her "ancestor" Abigail the witch haunts her mind and puts her into trances where she can't help but go do sexual things that give her a satisfying climax. She first starts trying to turn on her neighbor Mr. Jones, who is a homosexual (or "homo" as he puts it), but then the trances get more and more perverse until finally she's being told to have sex with her dead girl friend. In between all of this is "psychedelic" light shows, but really it's kind of boring flashes of red and people in masks and weird outfits. Not many psychedelic colors, mostly just red.

I did like this movie because Cindy's voice, who is the main narrator, has a twinge of comedy in it the whole time. As if the actress thought that what she was saying was so stupid it was funny. There are parts where they say the f-word or they say some body part and it has been cut out. The key phrase that Cindy is supposed to say to get the witch to enter her mind is "Let's fantasy f**k now!" but after a while, the f-word gets cut right out of the dialog, so you just hear "let's fantasy *cut* now!" And it does this for a lot of lines where you'd think something vulgar was about to be said. Or when a snake is being pulled out of someone's butt, they say "rectum" but then the word gets cut out the next time they refer to it. It's strange that they do that.

This movie has fake snakes that are supposed to be real and girls are doing weird things them. It has bad vampire teeth. It has a huge bad wig on the main character. And it has a great theme song, that unfortunately, you get sick of by the end. And lastly, it has a great scene where something strange is happening to the main girl (I forget what) and her narrator decides to make crazy noises the whole time that end up sounding like someone talking in tongues while drowning. It's pretty funny.

A true one of a kind!

[preppy-3 · 8/10 · 5 September 2008]

When a movie starts out with a rather catchy title song (entitled "Beware of the 4-D Witch) and then promises to "potray(ing) for the first time the Astral World in Transetheric Vision" you KNOW you're in for something different.

Mostly the whole film is narrated by Cindy (played by an actress only called "Margo") who practices witchcraft. She contacts an ancestor--a real Salem witch named Abigail. Abigail escorts Cindy through a series of sexual adventures (pretty mild) which Cindy loves. But then things get too extreme and Cindy rejects Abigail. To retaliate Abigail goes after Cindy's brother Mark (who takes over the narration here) and turns him into a sex vampire! Basically it has the actor wearing the fakest fangs I've EVER seen! If it sounds strange you should see it! The camera is constantly throwing colors and visions at you (mostly dime store fright masks with glowing eyes) and the narration is absolutely hysterical. The "acting" wavers between bad and atrocious. There's also plenty of female nudity but the picture is R rated (which is mysteriously shown to us at least twice). Along with bright colors and visions there is also a soundtrack consisting of classical music ("Night on Bald Mountain" pops up quite a bit) mixed with rock music. I can't say I liked this...but I couldn't stop watching! It's so over the top and ridiculous you sort of watch in fascination and try to think of what these people thought they were doing. It gets an 8 because it is a true one of a kind. This is one of those rare movie that's so bad it's good!

A Stoner B-Movie Fan's Delight

[Sticky_Floor_Cinema · 7/10 · 25 March 2018]

While I personally think the 2.7 user rating is a tad harsh, the low ranking doesn't really surprise me, as this campy psychedelic low budget erotic comedy fantasy is absolutely not for everyone's tastes. I, however, adore this movie. The visuals, while definitely cheap and silly, are still quite intense, and the whole thing is just so insanely wacky that it just totally clicks with my personally bizarre and off-kilter cinematic tastes. Some of the dialog is absolutely hilarious and unforgettable, such as "I forgot to mention that the secret ingredient is her own menstrual blood, and both she and the snake really dig it!" I mean, come on. If you can't immediately appreciate that as masterful 70s sleaze cinema, then you probably aren't a part of this movie's target audience, and you might want to keep on moving.

As for the sexual content, it's slightly below softcore, as it is a rated R movie, so it's really not one that's going to frost your cookies, so you might want to avoid disappointment by the dumping the expectation for a truly erotic experience before watching, and just enjoy it for the trippy and absurd oddball movie that it is.