Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Woodyanders Paranormal expert Dr. Ralph Hayes (a fine and credible performance by Alvy Moore) spearheads an investigation into the gruesome murders of beautiful young women in a backwoods Louisiana swamp community. Hayes finds out that powerful and formidable sorcerer Luther the Berserk (robustly played with lip-smacking wicked relish by John Lodge) is behinds the killings. Writer/director William O. Brown presents a flavorsome evocation of the bayou setting, ably crafts a spooky gloom-doom atmosphere, and sprinkles in some fairly racy near nudity for extra sizzle. The remote rural location projects an unsettling sense of isolation and vulnerability. Anthony Eisley acquits himself well as hunky stalwart reporter Victor Gordon. Luscious buxom blonde bombshell Thordis Brandt makes for a fetching and appealing damsel in distress as well as provides a yummy eyeful running topless through the woods with her hands cupping her exquisitely enormous breasts. Flash-in-the-pan drive-in movie cutie Patricia Wymer and comely 60's Playboy Playmate Sue Bernard portray members of the dastardly coven while wizened old guy character actor Burt Mustin has a small, yet memorable role as an amiable boatman. Both John Arthur Morrill's handsome widescreen cinematography and Jaime Mendoza-Nava's shivery score are up to par. While this film suffers a bit from sluggish pacing and an overly talky script, the surprisingly grim nihilistic ending compensates for these flaws. Although no lost classic, it's overall worth a watch for fans of low-budget indie horror fare.

Rainey Dawn The Witchmaker is aka The Legend of Witch Hollow - both titles work for the film. It's about a sensitive and some of her colleagues that end up in the Louisiana swamps to conduct some psychic research. They've heard about several woman being killed and drained of their blood. The male witch sees to sensitive and wants to make her a part of the coven of witches.The film would have been better if the film actually focused more on the psychic research and investigation of the murders instead of the male witch working with the lead and real witch to bring the psychic girl into the coven. The movie really moves away from what we are told the story is about - so the plot and film's summary are quite a bit misleading. Plot is about their intentions to begin with but not the films focus.It's a passable witch film - nothing really special.3.5/10

Leofwine_draca THE LEGEND OF WITCH HOLLOW is a cheap and cheerful US horror flick about witchcraft in the dark swamps. It has a local, amateurish feel which works well in its favour I think, and the witchcraft antics are certainly more authentic than as depicted in the likes of Ted V. Mikels's BLOOD ORGY OF THE SHE DEVILS. There are faults here, mostly in the overacting from the villain characters who get way too much screen time, but at other times this is surprisingly decent.The best thing about this film? The setting. This really was filmed in Louisiana and you just can't fake those kind of locations, as Walter Hill found out when he made his exemplary SOUTHERN COMFORT. There are some memorable interludes along the way, includes hints at the kind of elements that would dominate the genre a few years later, with the most talked-about bit being the topless girl running in slow motion through the woods. If you can get over the mannered acting, dated fashions, and overacting, you might well find this an atmospheric little chiller.

lazarillo After four local girls are found, murdered, hung up downside down in tree, and drained of blood in a Louisians swamp , an intrepid documentary team comes to investigate. They're actually a lot more intrepid than intelligent though because they decide to stay in an isolated cabin in the middle of the swamp with their only way in or out being a local yokel in a boat who promises to come back and get them in a week, but is incommunicado in the meantime. One of the female members of the team is a "sensitive" who is attuned to witches and who had a grandmother who was an actual witch. The perpetrators turn out to be a female witch, Jessie, and a male "berserker", Lucas, who maintain their youth by drinking human blood. They make short work of most of the team, but take special interest in the "sensitive" who they hope to add to their coven.This has elements of a lot of future movies--not only "The Blair Witch Project", but also "The Legend of Hell House" as well as other Louisiana-filmed regional obscurities like "The Crypt of Dark Secrets". On the other hand, however, this film is really quite unique in a lot of ways and there never has really been another film like it. It kind of invents its own mythology what with the "berserker", the witches who stay young by drinking blood(which sounds more like vampires), and odd facts like garlic making one invisible to witches and pig's blood being very bad for black masses. The film is also strange in that it in many ways seems like a 50's film, but then it also contains some surprisingly graphic violence and not-so-graphic sex and nudity, and it has the kind of nihilistic ending much more common in 70's films. The most weird and memorable aspect though comes at the end when the villains hold a coven meeting/black sabbath and their coven turns out to include any number of witches, real and fictional, from throughout history, including "Goody Hale" (one of the few Salem residents NOT accused of witchcraft).The cast is mostly unknowns. The male lead was in "Green Acres", I guess. Two of the coven members are Patricia Wymer (as the "Hag of Devon") and Sue Bernard (as "Felicity Johnson"). Wymer played the titular (and ass-ular) character in "The Babysitter" and also appeared in "The Young Graduates". Bernard, a former Playboy Playmate, had been the bikini-clad girl in Russ Meyers "Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill" and appeared in a number of 70's horror/exploitation films such as Bert Gordon's "The Witching" (also somewhat similar to this) and Curtis Harrington's "The Killing Kind". The pair have all of about two lines between them here, but this isn't really a film that depends much on actors (although the guy playing "Lucas" is pretty good). It gets plenty of mileage just out of its genuinely unique weirdness.