Italy, 1988
95m
35mm film, colour, 1.85:1
mono, English
An Italian horror film directed by Fabrizio Laurenti using the name Martin Newlin.
Plot Summary
A storm strands a group of people on a Massachusetts island where they seek shelter in an old hotel supposedly haunted by the ghost of a former German actress.
Credits
* = uncredited
Crew
Directed by: Martin Newlin [real name: Fabrizio Laurenti]
© [not given on screen]
Filmirage presents. Produced by Production Group and Filmirage
Produced by: Aristide Massaccesi *, Donatella Donati *
Written by: Daniel Davis
Director of Photography: Lorenzo Battaglia
Film Editor: Kathleen Stratton
Original Music by: Carlo Maria Cordio
Sound Engineer: Keith Young
Special Effects and Make-up: Maurizio Trani
Titles and Optical Effects: Moviecam 2000
Art Director: Alex Colby [real name: Massimo Antonello Geleng]
Casting: Paul Werner [real name: Werner Pochath]
Cast
David Hasselhoff (Gary)
Linda Blair (Jane Brooks)
Catherine Hickland (Linda Sullivan)
Annie Ross (Rose Brooks)
Leslie Cumming (Leslie)
Bob Champagne [real name: Robert Champagne] (Freddie Brooks)
Rick Farnsworth (Jerry Giordano)
Michael Manchester (Tommy Brooks)
Hildegard Knef (the lady in black)
Frank Cammarata (Tony Giordano)
Victoria Biggers (secretary)
Ely Coughlin (Satan)
Kara Lynch (Cindy)
James Hanes [real name: Jamie Hanes] (Jon)
Richard Ladenburg (sheriff)
George Stevens (fisherman)
Alternative Titles
Bruxa: Encontros Diabólicos – Brazil
La casa 4 – Italy
Czarna magia – Poland
Démoniaque présence – Canada (French), France
Encuentro con la maldad – Spain
La endemoniada – Mexico
Evil Dead 4 – USA (bootleg title)
Evil Encounters – Portugal (video), working title
Exorcist 3 – USA (bootleg title)
O Feitiço das Almas – Brazil
Ghosthouse 2 – UK (video), USA (bootleg title)
The Haunted House – Netherlands (video)
Hexenbrut – West Germany
Hotel do Terror – Brazil
Malefiche presenze – Italy
Şeytanın Dönüşü – Turkey
Witchcraft – Das Böse lebt – West Germany
Witchcraft – Evil Encounters – Australia
Witchcraft (Evil Encounters)
Witchcraft – Europe
Witchcraft: Presencias maléficas – Argentina
Witchcraft: Return of the Exorcist – Philippines
Witchery – Canada
Witchery – India
Witchery – USA
Ведьмовство – Russia
Дом с привидениями 2 – Russia
Чаклунство – Ukraine
Links
Extracts included in
Joe D’Amato Totally Uncut: The Horror Experience (2001)
Witches (2024)
References
Periodicals
- Cinefantastique vol.20 no.4 (March 1990) p.56 – review (by David Wilt)
- Foreign Sales, Italian Movie Trade vol.14 no.2/3 (February/March 1989) pp.38 – credits, synopsis; 52 – credits
- Foreign Sales, Italian Movie Trade vol.14 no.8/9 (August/September 1988) p.9 – illustrated note
- Screen International no.649 (23 April 1988) p.74 – credits
- Screen International no.651 (7 May 1988) p.300 – credits
- Variety 10 May 1989 p.54 – review
Books
- Darkening the Italian Screen: Interviews with Genre and Exploitation Directors Who Debuted in the 1950s and 1960s by Eugenio Ercolani p.56
