"The House On The Witchpit" is a so-called horror movie told in an incompetent semi-documentary style, and the movie starts off with a journalist looking into the reason as to why people involved in the movie keep ending up dead. The semi-documentary style continues with recreation actors acting out scenes leading up to the remaking a lost horror movie that was made thirty years ago.
This movie continues with its pseudo-documentary style with the recreation actors being "interviewed" about the roles that they play in the movie about the "lost" movie. This commentary easily being the stuff that would be found in videos bonus tracks.
After we view some playing of the, stilted, recreation and the interviews, we cut to an earlier twenty-year anniversary showing of the original lost Witchpit movie, where the arrogant, but washed up cult director/creator John Canning has some arcane passages from some equally arcane occult volume read aloud to the audience.
After this scene, we quickly cut to the latest of John Canning's awkward annual dinner party from hell as all of the original lost movie's principles, now played by recreation actors, gather about for some awfully nasty things to eat, with John Canning acting as creepy as possible. This dinner party is peopled with upcoming and wannabe filmmakers during which the arrogant Canning gets to strut his stuff and put his guests through the emotional wringer.
As the movie cranks along, we also get some urban explorer, Lanky 414, filler clips start to get randomly inserted throughout the rest of the movie, to no noticeable effect, as it furthers neither the movie's point, or it's plot. This is because the movie just seems to be created as it is filmed. And just as often the plot movies along in such a herky-jerky way as to give the impression that huge chunks of the movie have either not been made, or has been edited out, all of which leads to a real mess of a viewing experience.
Then there's also the acting. It gets really hard to tell if this movie was badly acted or not, as most of the actors aren't given much to do except stand around and act as obnoxious as possible, all while being filmed on grainy video.
A couple of examples would be John Canning's character not doing much except to strut about being snarky, snotty, smug, self-superior, obnoxious, and to make ugly faces at the camera.
And the actress who plays one of a set of twins is just all over the place, from acting insecure to being pathologically psychotic.
There is also some nonsense about how the director, Pat Higgens, initially destroyed, after the movie's premiere showing, the original version of this movie in front of the premiere's audience, and then went out and REMADE the movie, and how this movie, the remake, was withdrawn from the market, and hasn't been seen again. All of which is rot, as I saw this flick on the internet.
If you get a chance to see this movie, don't, but the cast, all of whom were probably desperate for money, who are not listed on this site, consist of:
Melissa Coyne as Toni and Tanya Alice Cy Hentry as John Canning Mike Reddihough as Damon Reid Lisa Keast as Rebecca Woods Pat Higgens as Jame Tick Luke Mason as Andy Lightman Melany Dante as Callie Ken Mortimer as Lanky 414
Despite it being marketed as such, this is not a horror movie, it's more of a psycho-drama with little payoff, and which is crying out for cult status. All-in-all though, despite the hoopla and the hype Pat Higgens may have staged about this movie, "The House On The Witch" is a dull, non-sensical, incoherent, and micro-budgeted non-event. Avoid if possible.
This movie continues with its pseudo-documentary style with the recreation actors being "interviewed" about the roles that they play in the movie about the "lost" movie. This commentary easily being the stuff that would be found in videos bonus tracks.
After we view some playing of the, stilted, recreation and the interviews, we cut to an earlier twenty-year anniversary showing of the original lost Witchpit movie, where the arrogant, but washed up cult director/creator John Canning has some arcane passages from some equally arcane occult volume read aloud to the audience.
After this scene, we quickly cut to the latest of John Canning's awkward annual dinner party from hell as all of the original lost movie's principles, now played by recreation actors, gather about for some awfully nasty things to eat, with John Canning acting as creepy as possible. This dinner party is peopled with upcoming and wannabe filmmakers during which the arrogant Canning gets to strut his stuff and put his guests through the emotional wringer.
As the movie cranks along, we also get some urban explorer, Lanky 414, filler clips start to get randomly inserted throughout the rest of the movie, to no noticeable effect, as it furthers neither the movie's point, or it's plot. This is because the movie just seems to be created as it is filmed. And just as often the plot movies along in such a herky-jerky way as to give the impression that huge chunks of the movie have either not been made, or has been edited out, all of which leads to a real mess of a viewing experience.
Then there's also the acting. It gets really hard to tell if this movie was badly acted or not, as most of the actors aren't given much to do except stand around and act as obnoxious as possible, all while being filmed on grainy video.
A couple of examples would be John Canning's character not doing much except to strut about being snarky, snotty, smug, self-superior, obnoxious, and to make ugly faces at the camera.
And the actress who plays one of a set of twins is just all over the place, from acting insecure to being pathologically psychotic.
There is also some nonsense about how the director, Pat Higgens, initially destroyed, after the movie's premiere showing, the original version of this movie in front of the premiere's audience, and then went out and REMADE the movie, and how this movie, the remake, was withdrawn from the market, and hasn't been seen again. All of which is rot, as I saw this flick on the internet.
If you get a chance to see this movie, don't, but the cast, all of whom were probably desperate for money, who are not listed on this site, consist of:
Melissa Coyne as Toni and Tanya Alice Cy Hentry as John Canning Mike Reddihough as Damon Reid Lisa Keast as Rebecca Woods Pat Higgens as Jame Tick Luke Mason as Andy Lightman Melany Dante as Callie Ken Mortimer as Lanky 414
Despite it being marketed as such, this is not a horror movie, it's more of a psycho-drama with little payoff, and which is crying out for cult status. All-in-all though, despite the hoopla and the hype Pat Higgens may have staged about this movie, "The House On The Witch" is a dull, non-sensical, incoherent, and micro-budgeted non-event. Avoid if possible.
