A newlywed English tourist and an eccentric Transylvanian Count must work together when the former's beautiful wife is made the bodily host of a horrific witch.
Marked as comedy/horror/thriller... weâll see how that pans out.
Purportedly in color, but we have such a godawful print of it that itâs VERY desaturated.
we open with a dude in a cave reading a soggy phonebook and then it goes to a funeral? and then immediately it is a Witch Hunt. a Literal Witch Hunt
It does not feel like a real movie!
man in cave reads us the story of witch murder and then we zoop back to the present, presumably to see the results of the murdered witchâs dick cursing.
and then its just a lot of trying to find a hotel and a room and -
âDO YOU KNOW THE DRACULASâ which is my new favourite line.
THEY SERVE GARLIC WITH THE TEA THEYâRE USED TO DEAL WITH VAMPIRES AROUND HERE
COUNT VAN HELSING WHOSE FAMILY EXORCISED THE DRACULAS
there are no vampires left in transylvania
THIS ISNT EVEN A VAMPIRE MOVIE?
THE GOVERNMENT OUTLAWED BLACK MAGIC, OF COURSE
and then they do sum fuk at night and the hotel owner who is named GROPER is peeping on them and then our LEADING MAN BEATS HIM TO DEATH? Oh, not quite. But lord.
âid divorce a man immediately for being afraid of garlicâ @gwenfrankenstienâ
It talks almost a half hour to get to the car lake crash that is, i believe, the inciting action for the plot.
Thereâs a truck driver. He looks like communist Mario according to at least two viewers.
We are all calling the truck driver Mario now.
Anyway the truck driver brings Leading Man back to the hotel and then some stuff happens and THERES A WITCH BODY IN A BED and everyonsâs ALARMED and Von Helsing interrogates the Leading Man.
von helsing appears to live in a cave because the government took his castle. damn communists.
vanhelsing stole leading manâs keys so he canât leave this movie for a better one leave his wacky old man tales
and then leading man - whose name is philip! just fucking books it and runs away from cave von helsing.
It took almost 45 minutes to learn Leading Manâs name.
The soundtrack in this movie occasionally just does its own weird-ass thing.
We have not seen the witch do any witch things yet.
Von Helsing makes the terrible, terrible choice of waking up the witch. This is where everything goes wrong.
sexual assault warning at about 47 minutes in. Groper, unfortunately, lives up to his name.
and then someone gets killed after the lady escapes groper? i have no idea what happened there. I Blinked.
And then groper leaves the corpse in the road to get run over as a coverup but that fails because the truck swerves.
road corpse guy was not dead and was also philip i cannot keep the events of this movie STRAIGHT!
AND THEN THE WITCH FIGHTS GROPER AND AT SOME POINT A HAMMER AND SICKLE GET TOSSED ON THE FLOOR AND THEY JUST. ITS SOVIET
thereâs a cockfight and they just bop the chickens together before it starts and then they throw them at each other but they dont even look like roosters just standard white hens. the cockfight takes place almost entirely offscreen and we just see an occasionally disgruntled chickenflap. it is the most hilariously weak attempt at pretending there is animal violence happening.
Thereâs still very little witch but she harasses a teenager for a bit while the chicken stuff is going down.
At about 58 minutes thereâs a second long shot of one chicken standing over a maybe dead chicken? iâd say animal gore/death warning but itâs brief and grainy so its.
Anyway the kid choked out the witch. and they dragged her back to the hotel? and stuff her in a coffin.
The witch killed groper he was MARKED FOR HER VENGANCE.
This movie is like. anti-communism wrapped in a goofy witch story.
things just went off the rails again!
then the communist police take the witch and - since she looks dead theyâll autopsy her and GOOD NEWS, THAT WILL KILL THE WITCH? except bad news? because that will kill veronica?
âthis is a fucking comedyâ @villainpunkâ
AND THEN COUNT AND LEADING MAN GO GRAND THEFT AUTO AND STEAL THE POLICE CAR WITH THE WITCH IN IT AND THE POLICE STEAL THE COUNTâS CAR TO CHASE THEM
THERES A CAR CHASE SEQUENCE AND THEY SPED UP THE FILM I THINK AND ITS PLAYING COMEDIC MUSIC AND ???
this sudden turn to comedy movie is VERY JARRING??
at seven minutes until the end i have NO IDEA WHAT THE HAP IS FUCKENING and - they want to kill the communist cops now, this is no longer a comedy.
at this point, anything could happen.
AND THEN THE WITCH WAKES UP AND FIGHTS THE COPS AND THE COUNT TRIES TO CHOKE HER OUT AND THEN HE STABS SOME POLICEMENT IN THE ASS WITH A TRANQUILIZER AND TRANQS THE WITCH AND NOW THEYâRE DOING? SOMETHING ELSE? WITH THE WITCH?
AND THEN THEY BRING THE WITCH BACK TO THE LAKE THEY MURDERED HER IN AND THEY DROWN THE WITCH IN THE LAKE WHILE SHE SCREECHES AND DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS AND THEN THE WITCH DISSOLVES MAYBE AND LEADING MANâS WIFE IS BACK AND OK AND THEY KISS AND THE COUNT DRIVES THEM AWAY FROM THE LAKE WHILE THEY ALL COMPLAIN ABOUT THE PLACE except the wife whoâs like IâLL BE BACK and then the movieâs over.
rating: what?? out of Witch?? on the beetsometer. it kept swinging from Mildly A Movie to What On Earth and wow. what even was that last chunk
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