The Witch's Sabbath (2005) User Reviews

Another low budget horror film shot on a camcorder piece of rubbish.

[poolandrews · 3/10 · 12 January 2008]

The Witches' Sabbath (not The Witch's Sabbath as the IMDb would have you believe) is set in Los Angeles just before Halloween, a group of four evil witches lead by Auriana (Syn DeVil) need to sacrifice lots of human souls for reasons never really explained that well. They run a strip club called Skin 'N' Sin where they pick up various victims who are easily enticed by a bit of naked flesh, four friends Eliza (Christine Cowden), Seth (Eli James), Damian (Eric Coffin) & Amber (Rikki Dale) are lured back to the witches lair to become the final victims they need to complete the offerings...

Directed by Jeff Leroy one has to say that The Witches' Sabbath is crap on just about every front. The script by Jeremiah Campbell is an absolute mess, has terrible narrative, awful character, a basic plot which isn't even explained properly & plenty of plot holes. For instance what sort of connection did Eliza have with that witch? What was the pointless flashback with the baby all about? Hell, who's baby was it in the first place? Why did the witches need to sacrifice people? What was that monster thing at the end? Why did it kill all the witches? Nothing makes any sense, the story is awful & it's a total mess from start to finish. The Witches' Sabbath is one of those films which while watching it you simply can't believe what your seeing, it's awful in just about every respect & even as a basic story about witches it's a mess.

Director Leroy films this on what looks like a camcorder & it has a horrible video look about it. The climax is shot & edited so badly that character's just randomly disappear without us ever knowing what happened to them & then there's this forcefield thing which is so badly conceived & shot that it's hard to understand what's going on. The CGI computer effects are poor with some terrible lightening effects although one has to say the special make-up effects are actually reasonable with several decent looking severed heads. The gore isn't great, there are some decapitated heads, an arm is ripped off & someone has their eyes poked out. There's a lame S & M theme running through The Witches' Sabbath, the witches are all good looking young girls who work out of a dungeon in their basement while Auriana dresses in leather outfits complete with thigh high boots & is referred to mistress although that's where it ends as there isn't actually any S & M in it. There's a fair amount of nudity as well but no sex & it takes more than a few bare breasts to make a good film.

Technically the film is a mess apart from one or two good decapitated heads, it looks like it was filmed on a camcorder, the editing is awful & it's a chore to sit through. The acting is poor although the girls are pretty good looking which helps.

The Witches' Sabbath is terrible & as a film you can actually sit down & enjoy it's a none starter. There's some blood, some babes & some breasts but to be honest & you can call me picky if you want but I'm looking for more than that.

Should probably embarrass even Ron Jeremy

[moviemanic07 · 10 January 2006]

A coven of female witches, whose only magical power seems to be able to surgically-enhance their breasts, want to lure six-hundred-and-sixty-six victims to their house in order, I believe, to bring Satan into the world for a visit. All I can say, I'm glad they killed the vast bulk of their victims in their back story because I don't know how much more of this movie I could have taken! (Plus, I don't think the witches would have gone through all of the trouble themselves if they knew how goofy Satan would look when he finally appeared.) All I can say is that director Jeff Leroy is Fred Olen Ray without the talent. (That was a sentence I would have never imagined myself writing, but at least Ray has rudimentary technical skills. This is just a mess.) No atmosphere. The witches' house is just a normal suburban house on a normal street -- though it is sometimes surrounded by terrible CG clouds. The acting is bad. The breasts are fake. It isn't scary. It isn't funny. It isn't sexy. The action is badly staged. The victims just cower and beg for mercy. No one bothers to put up a fight! The story makes no sense. Just terrible. Granted, I am willing to test the depths of the bottom of the barrel when it comes to horror films, but I can't see who this film would appeal to other than horny twelve-year-old boys with no access to cable or the internet. Even Ron Jeremy should be ashamed of this film.

What A Waste

[franktjmackie2001 · 1/10 · 5 January 2006]

I love a good B movie like the next guy, but this doesn't even qualify as that! Bad all around. I wonder how the producers ever got this project off the ground? And someone tell Syn Devil that she can't act and she should sue the doctor that gave her that bad breast job! The world has a Fran Dresher, we don't need another one with less talent. In fact that would be a far better horror movie: A young actress tries to improve her looks and has two watermelons attached to her chest and they take on a life of their own! I should have known this film was going to be bad with the famous words: Produced by Dave Sterling. I think he must have sold his soul to someone to make movies, only the devil has him turning out this dreck.

Story? None. Editing? Not really. Anything going for it? An aged Ron Jeremy who must have lost a bet to be put in this film.

Painful Beyond Words

[CarlB1961 · 1/10 · 21 December 2005]

Exactly how bad is this movie? Let me just put it this way: The film is supposed to take place around Halloween, but in one scene a calendar in the background clearly reads JULY.

A strip club in L.A. is actually the front for a coven of sexy witches who must decapitated 666 victims before All Saints' Day so that their master (Satan) can eat their souls and take over the world... or something.

The witches lure four dumb high school/college students to their mansion (one of whom has some kind of psychic connection to the witches, but is never explained) for blah, blah, blah, yadda, yadda, yadda, you pretty much know where this is going.

What a witch!

[avalonlove_love · 1/10 · 9 July 2009]

Very close to one of the worst movies I have ever seen.I say this because I have seen movies even WORSE than this one and thats horrible that I can even say that.The acting haha no acting here sorry .The entire experience was yawn inducing the acting was WAY over-acted the violence was WAY over the top this movie was WAY over the point of absolute trash.Once again wish I could pick a negative 0 instead of a 1 because some movies such as this one DESERVE IT.The monster at the end also hahahaha what a joke not one part of this movie was scary surprisingly I did like 1 or 2 characters not the movie hell no .I fast-forwarded through most of it in all honesty only watched bits and pieces and the ending LMFAO Talk about unintentionally pathetic stupid and hilarious. Witches Sabbath I'm afraid you are cursed ....severely.

one of the worst movies ever

[viewsonthenet · 1/10 · 18 December 2008]

This movie is one of the worst I have seen and believe me I have seen some really bad movies (Demon house and many others) The acting is so awful it should win an award there is lots of nudity but no sex scenes the sex scenes in this movie are almost entirely a non contact sport.

there's lots of cheap unconvincing gore scenes and the film quality is not as good as many amateur movies are.

this movie fails as erotica and as horror it should be banned and defined as a video nasty. not because of the nudity and gore but because its a terrible waste of 80 + minutes of or the viewers lives.

this movie makes Crazy Eights look like a movie of the year in comparison.

Not a 'B' movie. Not a 'C', nor 'F', nor even 'G', but more like a Z-

[Error_PC_LOAD_LETTER · 1/10 · 28 March 2006]

This has got to be the worst movie ever produced, bar none. The film's colors are garish as a cheap beach-party 1960s 3-D cartoon and the filmwork appears to be that of a 13-year-old filming his older brother's best buds. The script itself could have been written by someone even younger, with lots of artificial profanity (wish this forum would allow me to script a line of it just to show how fake and cheesy the neopornographic dialogue is) and talk about girls who are 'hot'. About 65 percent of this film is devoted to artificial teats and pornography. Blood flows like cherry cool-aid throughout, and the excessive gore/blood is not terribly done, but no better than a C- or D+. Satan does make a cameo appearance late in the film and he looks like the cool-aid monster puppet re-done for a funhouse/spookhouse.

The only thing that can be said about a plot is, a coven of four witches must have a quota of 666 souls (decapitation murders) by Halloween (though all the action appears to be early summer) night in order to exist in the world one more year. So, to complete their task, they invite four high school/college students (who hang out at the witches' stripper club) to their halloween party in order to drug and murder them. The Witches' house. which is supposed to be a hundred-year-old mannor, is really just a well-decorated modern suburban condo with lots of angel statues and semi-elegant chandeliers.

(One poster in this forum described a scene where one of the characters drove a car over a cliff, and another character crapped in his pants at the opera. These scenes are not in the movie or referred to. The plot's only what I described above, and all the action takes place in the afore-mentioned witches condo, the strip-club, or the bedroom of one of the main characters, filmed with a cheap camera)

This film could have been made by a thirteen year old with a home movie camera and a big budget for cherry cool-aid and cherry syrup (for blood) and porno-star clothing. The only good things I can say about it is, most of the actors/actresses were reasonably attractive and I wondered why such normal- to above-average looking young adults would stoop to such a sucky movie (getting to keep the artificial teats, porno clothes and plastic halloween weaponry may have been part of the deal). The sound track was fairly decent to very good if you like, say, Black Sabbath and AC/DC. But these do not justify the awfulness and lack of talent you'll expose yourself to if you watch this. The best thing about this movie was there was a character named "Craven Moorehead" which was sorta a chuckle, but now that I told you, there's nothing else of value worth knowing.

Go rent Scooby Doo meets Bambi, Goldilocks vs. Broom Hilda,, or a cheesy porn flick instead.

Fun film!

[dragonmaster0303 · 5/10 · 1 April 2007]

For anyone wondering about this film, I've decided to make a checklist, so here goes:

Do you like cheap looking B movie sets? (in a fun, cheesy way of course).

Do you like 'Black Magic' symbolism?

Do you like rock music?

Do you like gushing blood? (in a movie, obviously!)

Do you like severed heads/limbs? (see above!)

Do you like big breasted (mostly tattooed) strippers/pole dancers? (but obviously don't care about their acting ability, or to be more accurate, distinct lack of it)

Do you think Ron Jeremy acting as a religious bible salesman is a funny idea?

If you answered 'yes' to all of the above questions, then welcome to your new favourite movie! If you answered 'no' to them all then you'd best pass on this one. Anything in between, give it a go; it's good, harmless fun!

Perpetuates all myths as well

[wiztwas · 1/10 · 2 February 2006]

Not only is it dire, but the research is non existent.

Satan is a Christian concept, pagans and wiccans do not acknowledge Satan.

Was the budget that low they could not spend a few bucks on finding things out? A little research could have gone a long way towards making this much more believable and possibly making it better.

Any film that is based on any stereotype rather than research and facts is aimed at the dumb viewer who will watch anything.

The writer deserves to be sacrificed at the next Sabbat.

Please can we be treated with a little more respect, we are not all idiots.

It is great at being what it's supposed to be; horrorotica.

[lostinlodos · 10/10 · 22 September 2006]

It is great at being what it's supposed to be; horrorotica. This movie is directly along the lines of the Devil Inside Her and Devil in Miss Jones; Scrap Book, and others of that style. It's a poor horror movie, and a poor adult entertainment film, but it works as horrorotica. If you'll looking for sex and gore to the Nth degree, this is a good movie, if you're looking for anything else, go somewhere else. Satanic love abounds in this tribute to "porn" and satanic worship. Many cameo appearances by both porn stars and independent circuit wrestlers. The story line is straight out of late 70s slasher flicks, and makes a good modern throwback the that era. Beyond that, it's a B movie, take that into consideration before going after this one

Stripper Witches collect souls for their Dark Lord

[jetsetter00 · 6/10 · 3 September 2008]

Witch's Sabbath is about a Witch's Coven which needs to sacrifice 666 people for their souls by beheading them, while their hearts are still beating, before the arrival of their Dark Lord. The witch's double as strippers and run a strip club where they hand pick their victims and invite them back to their home for dinner parties. This Horror film has obviously been made on a low budget and this is reflected in some of the cheaper looking effects. However, there are some great severed head scenes and Syn Devil's facial deterioration towards the end of the film is impressive. The cast try very hard to inject fear and reality into their performances but therefore become much more entertaining than I'm sure they ever thought they could be. The mandatory exposing of breasts becomes OTT as there is no sex of any description at any point in the film although there is lots - and lots - of Pole dancing to compensate. I enjoyed this film as I found lots of moments within it (which I'm certain are not meant to be)absolutely hilarious, such as the physical appearance of the long awaited Dark Lord. This gave the film another dimension and actually made it more watchable!! Syn Devil's incredibly bad boob job (which is visible throughout the film)and the witch who never speaks but is always rubbing her breasts make for some very entertaining scenes. If you want to watch a horror movie which has lots of gore, naked breasts and is inadvertently very, very funny then this is for you.

This is what movies can be...

[milkfork · 9/10 · 11 March 2006]

I have to completely disagree with the guy from England who trashed this gem of a film. It's not about the research. It's about Jeremiah Campbell's ability to weave an intricate story and the golden eye of Jeff Leroy. It's symbolism, chap. When Craven Moorehead saved those orphans from the fire, it was really symbolic of Moses' travels in the desert. And Eliza and Derek were supposed to represent the 2 sides of the country during the War Between the States.

It's all there if you open your eyes. Never has a film moved me so much. I laughed when Seth crapped his pants at the opera, and cried when Auriana drove off the cliff. This movie will take you on an emotional roller coaster and leave you begging for more! Ron Jeremy does it again.

Nice gore, but the negative aspects keep it from a high rating.

[danthewrestlingmanorigin · 6/10 · 8 November 2006]

I am kind of undecided on this film, so i'll just tell you the good and bad points, and let you decide. First the good, the Vampire women, and Syn De Vil in particular are smoking hot, and topless for almost the whole film. Although they do commit the cardinal sin, of teasing girl on girl, and not delivering, had they gone through with it, I might have awarded another point. The other high point is the gore, which was pretty good, and frequent for a low budget film, and includes heads', and spines being ripped out of victims', while still alive. Now the bad, the acting here was quite awful, and the film drags at times in the middle. Even at eighty five minutes, I feel this movie could have been edited down, as the beginning and end were quite entertaining, I just found myself falling asleep during the character development parts in between, as the performances weren't very good, and I really just wanted them to be sacrificed, and get it over with. What this film lacked is a good sexy money shot, as I said above if you tease a lesbian encounter, you had better give it up, or people will be disappointed. Also while the film delivers the T, they scoff at us A lovers, and keep the underwear on. All in all, the gore was very good, and the women were easy on the eyes', so I say give it a go.