Witchcraft IV: The Virgin Heart (1992)

Simply A Masterpiece

hyped garbage

Don't Believe the Hype

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

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.

WITCHCRAFT IV: THE VIRGIN HEART is the worst WITCHCRAFT film yet, and all four have been pretty bad. This sees Charles Solomon Jr., the main actor from the last two films in the series, coming back for a final time essaying the role of the good-guy warlock facing up to the forces of evil.This effort tries to tell some sort of politically-tinged tale but the budget is far too low to convince with any of the court house scenes. The emphasis of the story is on rock music so there's lots of the expected padding and little in the actual way of story telling. Once again the devil is getting folk to sell their souls to him and only our hero can stop him.The most notable thing about THE VIRGIN HEART is the willingness of starlet Julie Strain to show off her bare body, which she does on regular occasions playing a devilish stripper character. While Solomon Jr. would thankfully quit the series after this instalment, unfortunately it would continue to run and run without him.

An attorney, who just happens to be a warlock gets involved with Julie Stern, but notices some devilish happenings going on around him and her involving rock stars. Some hot sexual situations, but it seems that with each new entry in this series these films actually seem to get worse. Clunky dialogue and laughable situations are its main flaws. Rated R; Sexual Situations, Nudity, Profanity, and Violence.

This is probably the best film in this series, but hey that isn't saying very much. Everything that made the previous efforts bad, remains intact in this awful film. Bad acting, direction, especially the so-called special effects, and script. There is more sex in this entry and some of the girls are good looking. This film is mildly entertaining in a so-bad, it is good way. If you haven't seen any of the films in this series, don't waste your time. There all awful, despite some neat looking tape boxes. 3.5 out of 10.