Friday, August 14, 2015

Necromancy

Necromancy (aka The Witching) is a 1972 horror film with Orson Welles as an evil maker of occult toys. When their first child is stillborn, a young couple moves to a new town called Lilith and the husband takes a job with the toy company. What can go wrong? Alas, not enough to make an interesting movie. After it was over, I wished I'd had a hard copy of it so that I could throw it across the room, or break it in half. Most movies have some redeeming factor, some small bright spot. Not this one. Boring.

via Daily Motion:



The Gore Whore says it's "about as exciting as lighting a wet firework". TCM has some information.

6 comments:

  1. I've seen movies like that before, and I've read books like that, too. I didn't throw mine across the floor, but cut them up and used them as backgrounds in my art !

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    1. Good use of bad books. I donate them to Goodwill, but that's just spreading the bad work around. I'll have to remember this the next time I read a book that's deserving of being transformed into art ;)

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  2. Darn. It sounded like it had possibilities.

    Darla

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    1. Yes, right? You'd think Orson Welles alone could've made it worth watching. Sadly, no.

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  3. Imagine Orson Welles even not being able to make it worth watching. Things must have been hard for him to have to do a film like that. But then I have heard actors can´t really tell how it is going to turn out; apparently Halle Berry was convinced that "Cat Woman" was going to be a great success. John Heard, however, must have realized that a film called "Sharknado" would be silly...

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    1. He did 4 films and a TV episode that year and 6 films the year before. I wonder how much investment he really felt towards any one film. I got the impression he was phoning it in on this one.

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