GurlyIamBeach Instant Favorite.

ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Bessie Smyth Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Michael_Elliott The Witchmaker (1969) ** (out of 4)The setting is deep in the Louisiana swamps where legend has it there have always been witch's who kill young ladies. It turns out one of the last members of a coven of witches is doing the killing and soon more victims arrive. A group of psychic researching, posing as location scouts, show up and before long they come face to face with the witches.THE WITCHMAKER was one of the first films to try and cash in on the success of ROSEMARY'S BABY and it pretty much goes by the handbook as far as witch movies go. Well, to be fair, I guess we should say that a lot of films dealing with witches and Satanic curses showed up in the later part of the 1960s but this one here certainly isn't among the best. It's really too bad that there were so many flaws with this picture because there are some very good things scattered throughout the running time. The film was obviously shot with very little money and this actually helped the picture and especially where the look was concerned. The swamp setting is actually wonderful and the film has a good atmosphere to it. I think a lot of the atmosphere was created because they simply didn't have much money for a fancy looking picture so we're left with a rather raw film.The problem with the film is that the majority of the over-long 98-minute running time has characters talking and the dialogue isn't that interesting. In fact, I'd also argue that none of the characters are all that interesting and you certainly don't care about any of them. The more they talk the more annoying they become and you eventually just tune them out. The performances range from fair to poor but this is pretty typical of this type of film.I will say that the film offers up quite a bit of blood and especially for a movie of this era. There's not really any graphic violence and there is some rather funny bits of sexuality. It seems the director was willing to hint at the nudity but not show it so whenever you think you're about to see something we then get a quick edit. The highlight of the film is when actress Thordis Brandt goes running through the woods but covering her breasts to make sure there isn't any nudity shown.

BA_Harrison Set in and around a cabin in a creepy bayou, The Witchmaker (AKA The Legend of Witch Hollow) sees a group of psychic investigators encounter Luther the Berserk (John Lodge), a murderous master of the Sabbat who seeks to induct sexy 'sensitive' Anastasia (Thordis Brandt) into his coven of witches.While this drive-in cheapie isn't a particularly great film - its basic premise is stretched rather too thin over 99 minutes, resulting in an uneven pace - it should still be of interest to avid horror fans: the remote cabin locale, foggy woods and witchy goings-on are reminiscent of both The Blair Witch Project and The Evil Dead, and the brutal slaying of innocent girls is suitably nasty (they're stripped, killed, strung upside-down and bled).The film also benefits from a bevy of shapely '60s babes, including some very sexy witches in Luther's coven. While there is no actual nudity (bare breasts are carefully obscured by objects in the foreground), there's still a fair amount of skin on show: the women of the group leave their cabin for a spot of sunbathing, the witches cavort in their underwear, and the raciest scene sees Brandt running full pelt through the woods in her panties clutching her breasts.6.5 out of 10, rounded up to 7 for the silly surprise ending.

Edward Grabczewski I managed to find a second-hand VHS copy on eBay but to date there's no DVD version. Maybe that speaks for itself. A slightly hammy, poorly researched film, that doesn't even agree with the Christian account of Satanism, let alone the pagan notion of Witchcraft. And not even a Satanist would recognise the rituals conjured up in this film. I get the feeling they made up the rituals as they went along because they're rather obvious and simple-minded i.e. drinking the victims blood from a chalice. Why is the Egyptian Ankh symbol of eternity scribed around the victims navel? The usual symbol for witches is the pentagram, which in this case would be inverted since this is a Satanist coven. In terms of sheer entertainment value then I have seen worse films, so probably worth watching is you're curious.

silentgpaleo All right.So, there is some satanic rituals going on in the bayou. Alvy Moore(from GREEN ACRES, and also one of this film's producers) and his group are investigating into this Deep South hell, and its RACE WITH THE DEVIL time.I have a somewhat trimmed version of this film, but despite this, I enjoyed WITCHMAKER emmensly. It has blood, nudity, and some pretty intense scenes. In a sense, it is what all drive-in films should be, entertaining. I'll be getting the DVD version, once they put it out. And I definitely won't be buying that wimpy BLAIR WITCH flick. WITCHMAKER is the real deal.