Touches You

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

The fourth part of the epically lengthed Witchcraft franchise gives me the impression that their quality isn't going to improve anytime soon. Once again we have yet another truly awful attempt at a horror following the "Adventures" of our warlock Will.I'm fast starting to think that along with being one of the longest movie franchises in history that it may well be one of the worst.Also starring Julie Strain this is another barely followable crapfest.The Good:At least they follow on from each otherThe Bad:Poor sound balancingFilm noir attempt is dumbTerrible plotThings I Learnt From This Movie:In reverse land Julie Strain wears clothes in films!

It's been three years since warlock Will Spanner (Charles Solomon Jr.) has used his powers, but when faced with a demonic, murderous music manager who removes his victims' hearts, the supernatural lawyer must once again draw on his magical abilities.With Will investigating a murder case that takes him to sleazy strip clubs and smoky blues bars, Witchcraft IV: The Virgin Heart is more like a film noir than a horror — and a bad one at that, with a dull mystery and a lifeless performance from star Solomon. Written and directed by James Merendino, the film cements the Witchcraft series as one of the worst horror franchises ever, this latest entry being the weakest one yet.As with the previous three films, the film suffers from dreadful acting, flat direction, and cheap production values, with particularly bad sound, much of the dialogue almost impossible to make out. I imagine that none of this seemed all that important to Merendino, just so long as skin-flick legend Julie Strain (playing a stripper called Belldonna) got her clothes off—which she does.This was the last of the Witchcraft films to feature Charles Solomon Jr. as William: perhaps even he had his limits and could take no more of this garbage.

This terrible movie series - that in the meantime has reached number twelwe, I don't understand why - reaches really the bottoms with this fourth entry, starring again warlock-lawyer Will Spanner against none other than the devil in a convoluted, bad lightened, worse acted sort of Mississipi Adventure gone wrong, with its story of bluesmen and pacts with the Lord of the Flies. More a mystery than a real horror movie - but it is really bad both ways you see it - this movie has the only reason to be watched in the presence of Julie Strain as stripper-singer extraordinaire Belladonna, that shows her bare and best assets, her wonderful breasts, but even she is totally wasted in the abomination that this movie is. Don't bother to rent nor to buy.

Witchcraft IV is more of a murder mystery drama than a horror film; the horror element is not very well done. There is a murder at the beginning, the accused, a defense lawyer and police, but the focus shifts away from the accused and onto, err, the supernatural element. Some nice scenes of Julie Strain, but her character is not very compelling. Nothing really interesting happens until the climax, but this leaves something to be desired too. Mediocre fare.