The House of Witchcraft (1989)
"La casa del sortilegio" (original title)

Director:

Umberto Lenzi

Writers:

Gianfranco Clerici (story), Umberto Lenzi (screenplay),

Stars:

Andy J. Forest, Sonia Petrovna, Susanna Martinková

Cast

Cast overview:
Andy J. Forest	...	Luke Palmer
Sonia Petrovna	...	Martha Palmer
Susanna Martinková	...	Dr. Elsa Palmer
Marina Giulia Cavalli	...	Sharon Mason
Paul Muller	...	Andrew Mason
Maria Stella Musy	...	Debra Palmer
Alberto Frasca	...	Steven
Maria Cumani Quasimodo	...	Witch (as Maria Clementina Cumani Qusaimodo)

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

decapitation | maggot | throat slitting | head cut off | stabbed to death | 

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Genres:

Horror | Mystery

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Details

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

31 October 2005 (Germany)

Also Known As:

House of Witchcraft

Company Credits

Production Co:

Dania Film, Reteitalia

Technical Specs

Runtime:

86 min

Color:

Color (Telecolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Third part of the series "Le case maledette" (Doomed Houses) also including The Sweet House of Horrors, The House of Clocks and House of Lost Souls.

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Connections

Follows The House of Clocks (1989)

User Reviews

Freudian nightmares and witchcraft

This is one of the two films Umberto Lenzi made for the Italian four part TV-series Houses of Doom, Lucio Fulci helming the others. A young man dreams a recurring nightmare, in which he is running away from someone before he's reaching an old house, where an ugly old woman boils his own head in a big kettle. His girlfriend thinks it's good for him to take a few days off and they drive to an old house that belongs to her family. The house is the one the young man always enters in his nightmare...

Even though the production values are rather low-key, this film is really uncanny and sometimes quite disturbing. Lenzi delivers chilling atmosphere, a classic Freudian nightmare and a decent plot about witchcraft and haunted houses. More thrilling than his other film for the series ("La Casa delle Anime Erranti"; Fulci's two films are "La Casa nel Tempo" and "La Dolce Casa degli Orrori"). In short: This film offers an almost old-fashioned witch story that actually works.