Witches of the Caribbean (2005)

Why so much hype?

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Witches of the Caribbean starts late one night on a picturesque Carribbean island where a young guy named Dino (Owen Steuart) hears someone calling him, he wanders around trying to find out who but a mysterious cloaked figure rips his heart out... Professor Avebury (Joanna Cassidy) runs a program for troubled teens & has decided to hold sessions on a Caribbean island, perk of the job I suppose. Avebury's last guest has just arrived, Angela (Nicole Cavazos) who has been suffering from a recurring dream of a witch being burned alive 100's of years ago. Angela is introduced to everyone, Bethany (Nicole Marie Monica), Clara (Kelli Giddish), Enid (Nina Tapinin), Cutter (Micael King) & Jerry (Kyle Jordon). Bethany is a self proclaimed witch & befriends Angela, she influences her & reveals to Angela that they share the same dream. As the dream becomes more & more vivid Angela changes, Bethany twists the facts & convinces her that only she can help her. But what is Bethany's motivation, how come she appears to have magical powers & what sinister plan does she have in store for the vulnerable Angela?Directed by David DeCoteau I thought Witches of the Caribbean was a poor attempt at a horror film. The script by Janna K. Arnold is simplistic, unoriginal & doesn't really interest. At points the film is OK & it moves along at a fair pace while at other's it becomes mind numbingly tedious to sit through. The story itself about a reincarnated witch isn't anything particularly new & Witches of the Caribbean does nothing to distinguish itself apart from the location but even then that was probably chosen so the filmmakers could have a nice holiday in the Caribbean for a few days, it's nice work if you can get it! The cast is made up entirely of teens most of whom annoy & the climactic showdown at the end is pathetically staged & I'm pretty sure I could have done a better job, if that wasn't bad enough DeCoteau then has the nerve to make us watch one of those predictable throwaway sequel driven twist endings. Overall there is very little by which I can recommend Witches of the Caribbean as there are so many more better horror films out there.Director DeCoteau has over 50 low budget sex/horror films to his 'credit', he usually hides under a pseudonym (in some case under a woman's name) so for him to put his real name to this I shudder to think of the quality, or lack of, of the other films he's made. There is no excitement, atmosphere or scares but I have to give him some credit for assembling a fine looking cast of young ladies... There are one or two gory moments all revolving around people having their hearts ripped out.Going straight to video, where it belongs I might add, Witches of the Caribbean was filmed in the Turks & Caicos Islands wherever they are & amazingly, according to the IMDb, was shot between 14th December 2003 & 19th December 2003! It took five days to shoot this? What took them so long? It's also interesting to note that it sat on a shelf for two years before being released in '05. As a whole it's reasonably well made considering the budget, shooting schedule etc. There is quite a catchy pop tune as part of the soundtrack which I found myself liking. Again, a mention for the ladies whom are all very easy on the eyes especially when they get the black goth look going.Witches of the Caribbean is watchable at best & that's being generous. At least it doesn't last for very long & isn't as bad as some low budget straight to video crap that I've sat through lately. You could do worse, but not much, but you could do better, a lot better.

Total utter CRAP! If this was only a porno, it might have been a little interesting to watch. First of all a movie with a title like this should deliver, which it does not. It's hard to feel slightly passionate about this project, for calling it a movie would be an overstatement. This is too stupid and dumb, how is it possible to make something this bad!?! The acting is flat and not very convincing. Combine this with a story so terrible, that it must have been written by someone on some kind of wonder drug, with awful directing, you get this lovely soup of rubbish and crap. After 40 minutes of watching the movie, oh the horror, I found out that there were 40 minutes left, when will this end? And what is up with the misplaced dance music and totally unnecessary flashback montage? I'm having a really hard time understanding this movie. I'll sue, cause this is America, and in America, if something sucks, you're supposed to be able to get your money back! why oh why

David DeCoteau has a reputation for making terrible movies, but this takes the cake for pure wretchedness.A teenage girl (who looks about 26) is sent to a tropical island resort for troubled youths following the tragic death of her mother. There she starts having reoccurring dreams about a woman accused of being a witch and sentenced to burn at the stake in the 16th century. Soon after she meets another troubled "teenage" girl who shares the same dream. It was at this point that I lost what little track I had of the plot, and the movie lost what marginal sense it possessed. I think the girl is actually supposed to be the reincarnation of the witch who was burned to death, and the other kids on the island are in some kind of Satanic cult who want to lure her in and sacrifice her for some reason or other. Or something.This movie has all of DeCoteau's trademark elements: homo-eroticism, bad acting, shallow characters, pointless montages, gratuitously repeated scenes from earlier in the movie, nearly nonexistent plot, etc, etc, etc.All the characters were unsympathetic, and is some cases downright obnoxious, cardboard stereotypes: the "jock", the "sensitive guy", the "goth chick", the "country girl", the "hippie girl".This movie has no merit and no redeeming qualities for humanity whatsoever.I feel cheated out of the $3.00 I spent to rent it, and the 90 minutes of my life I wasted in watching it! Avoid at all risks!

Some troubled youths stay on a Caribbean island with a counselor, and they all have dreams about a witch who had been burnt to death there years earlier. One of them is a witch, though for some reason people insist on saying that she "says" she's a witch or "believes" she's a witch, which is silly.There's little to recommend this at all. It's terribly dull. Endless conversations that serve no purpose. Scenes in which there's a montage of scenes which came earlier, which serve no purpose in being repeated except to pad out the running time. The guys take their shirts off more than once. The ladies don't. A bad movie like this needs gratuitous nudity; that doesn't make the movie better particularly, it just makes it a bad movie with nudity, which is generally preferable to a bad movie without it.There are some apparent deaths in which hearts are grabbed out of the chest. Somehow, this creates huge spurts of blood that go all over the face of the now heartless person. Somehow, these people are able to scream well after their hearts are ripped out. I suppose that's the power of witchcraft.Some of the powers of witchcraft, incidentally, are depicted by the use of green light. Very cheesy. It either shoots out of objects hitting people, or makes eyes glow or whatnot.Supposedly this was shot on the Turks and Caicos Islands, a UK territory that had been part of their Jamaican colony. However, the locations are wasted so much they might as well have shot it on the California coast and pretended it was the Caribbean.