witchery and or witchcraft a it commonly know in europe and being with jane brook ( linda blair ) wake up from a nightmare involve a witch . jane mother and father rise ( annie ross ) and freddie ( robert champagne ) be interested in buy an old deserted hotel on an island about 50 mile from boston and renovate it and reopen it . together with jane and their young son tommy ( michael manchester ) rise and freddie be plan to travel to the island with an architect name linda sullivan ( catherine hickland ) to check on the amount of work that need do and they also meet up with the estate agent jerry giordano ( rick farnsworth ) and hire a local fisherman name sam ( george stevens ) to take them to the island . once there they enter the hotel and begin to inspect the property while back on the boat sam be kill and the boat be let loose to sail off into the distance . they discover two unexpected guest in the shape of a photographer name gary ( david hasselhoff ) and his virgin fiancé leslie ( leslie cumming ) who happen to be research a book that she be write about the gruesome legend and superstition surround the infamous island and hotel . a the night draw on a rag storm outside isolate them from the mainland a a mysterious lady in black ( hildegard knef ) keep pop up a the ancient evil that reside in the hotel seek fresh victim for demonic possession and human sacrifice and satanic rite . the director of this american italian co produce film be somewhat shroud in mystery a the imdb list fabrizio laurenti a martin newlin but there be rumour that joe damato do the honour and either way to be honest despite it bad reputation i find witchery quite entertain in a so bad it good cheesy sort of way . the script credit to harry spalding and daniele stroppa on the imdb again be confuse too a the actual credit on the film itself be daniel davis and anyway whoever write this thing do a decent job and please stop laughing . at heart it a haunt house horror but add some gory death and a surreal feeling to everything . the different set of character have reasonable motif and do not get on my nerve as much a i would think they might and it not plot very well and it doesn not make a whole a lot of sense and the dialogue isn not exactly top drawer stuff but a a whole witchery entertain me for it 95 odd minute duration plain and simple . it reasonably well pace and a little slow to get go maybe but there be plenty of surreal and bizarre going on and gruesome death to keep one amuse . one part of witchery which destroy some of it credibility be this so called storm and there be no storm in sight and the sea be probably calm enough to swim in and witchery suppose twist end do not really work for me either and just check out the dumb expression on cummings face on that final freeze frame . the hotel provide for a good isolated location and add a certain atmosphere to the film which have the distinctive indefinable horror feel throughout and cheap horror at that . technically witchery be not too bad at all and it be obviously shoot on location so it look good throughout and while not exactly the pinnacle of film make finesse it overall production value be slightly good than expect . the violence and gore be of typical euro explicitness and a woman have her lip sew shut and hung inside a fireplace so she can not scream a the others light it and someone be crucify and then burn alive and impale on a swordfish and someone vein expand and pop and a woman be rap by a man with no lip . witchery be shoot in english so there be no dubbing and as far a act go david hasselhoff and linda blair in the same film what more can i say . yes lady hasselhoff do take his shirt off and for the lads cummings take hers off . both hasselhoff and blair be a hoot to watch in this thing and however the little kid be very annoying and really can not act at all . i sure most sane film goer will disagree with my opinion but i still stand by the fact that i like it and would happily watch it again and witchery be pretty good fun and definitely worth a watch if your into bad film or your a horror fan in general .