The softcore supernatural series grinds on, continuing to offer little in the way of thrills or imagination.
Attorney Will Spanner (David Byrnes) is reteamed with old cohorts, detectives Lutz (Alisa Christiansen) and Garner (John Cragen), after murder victim Rachel (Ashlie Rhey) bolts from the morgue and leads them into a violent confrontation. Rachel had been victimized at a party by Martin Hassa (Loren
Schmalle), head of the Romanian Cobol Corporation, which is entering a business merger that will give it control of the world's blood supply. A videotape from the party leads Will to believe that Rachel was attacked by a vampire, but the detectives dismiss the notion at first.
But Hassa is indeed a creature of the night and continues to claim victims, including Will's girlfriend, Keli (April Breneman), whom Hassa possesses and forces to attack Will. Convinced of what's happening, Lutz and Garner accompany Will to the merger meeting, where they shoot Hassa's underlings;
Will stakes Hassa but is mortally wounded himself. Hassa makes it back to Keli and tries to convince her to help him, but she finishes him off instead.
By this point, the WITCHCRAFT series has strayed so far from its original conception that there's no actual witchcraft in this installment. Indeed, everyone in this movie (including Will himself) behaves as if Will never had the occult powers that were the crux of the previous sequels; confronted
by a murder victim with huge fang marks in her throat, it takes an inordinate amount of time for anyone to even bring up the possibility of a vampire. Longtime viewers of this series, however, might wonder what sorcery turned the Lutz character from a man in the previous film to the
pulchritudinous woman seen here.
Hassa's seduction scene with Rachel is fairly sensual, and the early moments actually contain some decent acting, but the movie quickly descends into half-baked confrontations, ineffective erotica, unpersuasive histrionics, and illogical scripting. And despite the video-box's promise that this is
"the final chapter," the most frightening thing about the movie is that its off-handed presentation of Will's death suggests that another sequel is still a strong possibility.(Graphic violence, extensive nudity, sexual situations, extreme profanity.) leave a comment