Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Gary The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Leofwine_draca Inexplicably producing an endless number of uncountable sequels, this is a cheaply-made and totally dull affair with direction and acting so amateurish in nature that it's extremely hard to sit through. It also happens to be a very slow-moving film, in which there are only a couple of death scenes up until the finale, which moves into Shakespearian tragedy with just about the entire cast being slaughtered in a sudden massacre.The plot, concerning a couple who move into a new home and are terrorised by witches who want to use their newborn baby in a ritual, seems to be content ripping off ROSEMARY'S BABY, but it couldn't be more different in feel to Polanski's film - mainly as it's totally lacking in atmosphere and suspense! The only supernatural special effects used are ones where our heroine sees some spooky visions in a mirror. We see transparent heads flying towards the camera, effects which look like they didn't cost anything to make. All this is accompanied by some silly over the top music which makes it very funny in an unintentional way.Along the way, lots of unexplained things happen, like our heroine seeing a vision of a woman eating a dead dog and her wrists suddenly being slashed for no apparent reason. A priest also pops up (in a role obviously modelled on Rod Steiger in THE AMITYVILLE HORROR), is subjected to facial burns, before climbing up a tree outside our heroine's house and committing suicide by jumping into a noose - it's as hilarious as it sounds. In terms of gore, the only minor instance is when a family friend is decapitated and we see her head bouncing along the floor in a cheesy way. The acting is abominable and extremely wooden, particularly in the case of Gary Sloan, who plays the stupid husband. Yet it's difficult to criticise a particular performance when all are poor. Aside from the somewhat amusing ending, this is a totally dry and pointless film, for those looking for a cure for insomnia only!

Ben Larson How many Witchcraft films were there? 13? 14? I don't know, but this, the first, is not like the others. It is a repackaged Rosemary's Baby. and doesn't have the sex scenes of the later films in the Witchcraft series.This film has all the elements you would expect in a Gothic horror film: a creaky old house, mood music, a scary butler, strange dreams, and lots of screaming and blood. And, we need to mention the creepiest of them all, the Mother-in-Law.It may have been low budget, but it still was interesting and worth the time spent.

FieCrier The opening of the movie intercuts a man and a woman being burned at the stake for witchcraft during colonial American times with a woman giving birth. That burning scene is repeated in a number of the sequels (more about them later).Grace Churchill is the mother, a woman who emigrated from Poland with her parents, who died in a murder/suicide. She's a former junkie (if I heard correctly), but cleaned up and was surprised to find John Churchill one of the state's wealthiest men was interested in marrying her.After the birth, they live with his mother in her huge house. Parts of the house are dusty, with things covered with sheets, and she's not supposed to go into that part. The family butler shows up to block it off when she tries to show it to her friend Linda. He becomes a little friendlier when given a fresh flower from the garden, and then isn't always there to guard the off-limits room.That room has a mirror in it, in which she can briefly see colonial people, and also has visions of the future, though she's not sure she really saw them. She also has a dream, or maybe it isn't, in which she wanders outside at night and finds two people engaged in a ritual, and her mother-in-law Elizabeth is one of them. Blood drips out of Elizabeth's mouth.The family also has a bunch of strange friends, older people who don't talk much. Grace's priest comes to the house to baptize William and he has a vision of flames, and becomes ill.To some extent, as some have said, this borrows from Rosemary's Baby, which is certainly the better movie. There's even a steal of a famous shot of that movie, where the camera points through a doorway, partly showing a woman on a phone. However, the camera here actually does peer around, whereas in Polanski's film, the shot makes the viewer want to try to peer around.Rosemary's Baby was followed by a little-seen and reportedly poor TV movie, Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby. Witchcraft is followed by a surprising twelve sequels so far (most of them relatively poor), though the last of them has not been released yet. Possibly the only horror series to have out-sequeled this one is the Asian anthology series Troublesome Night.Witchcraft II picks up about eighteen years after this one, and does feature a number of flashbacks to this. Most of the sequels can stand on their own, but due to the number of flashbacks in II, it might be best to start here.Witchcraft II also features some nudity, while there was none in this one, unless there is more than one version of the film. Some of the later Witchcraft sequels stray into erotic horror, and some feature scenes that could be considered softcore I suppose.The main recurring character in all but two of the sequels (8 and 10) is Will Spanner, who is baby William Churchill in this one, and William Adams in the second - there's never any doubt in the movie that the baby will make it through, just what he'll be like when he gets older. Though none of them are brilliant, I don't think they're quite as bad as many others do. When in the mood for a cheap horror movie with lots of nudity, they're OK.

callanvass not as bad as i expected still no better then mediocre the acting isn't great but overall it was tolerable and mostly acceptable the effects are solid and it has a cool head decapatation moment near the end this was quite watchable and the production values were good and it is quite well made on a low budget it has some truly creepy scenes and the score is chilling but it is ruined by the lame ending and poor dialog and characters we could care less about and it was predictable as well and it is a Rosemary's baby clone (only not as good) check out the laughable scene where our lead character where our lead character wakes up from a dream and starts screaming and totally overacting still it has some creepy dream sequences and overall this was a watchable time that is worth a rent but it is only average at best ** out of 5