Redundant and unnecessary.

Just what I expected

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

Superstition is a film that i stumbled upon just recently here on IMDb. It looks just as if it was made with Dario Argento style but yet it lacks the sense of style which was evident in many of Argento's films.Sense of style is something that the directer possesses, well this time there's none of it. Pacing between the kills is poor and the gore happens suddenly without sufficient tension building. It's a shame that the special effects are acceptable and look really good from time to time.After all it's just a brainless slasher film which puts less effort in being coherent. Argento was known to be very incoherent and yet this film manages to make him look like more coherent than ever.This movie is to be watched as a joke and it's great fun to laugh at. Can you just not laugh to the overdone witch laugh which is heard just too many times in the wrong places. This movie's such a mess that it's difficult to say if it's so bad that it's so good or not. It's still funny.

Supestition aka The Witch is simply awesome!Simple, with one location and small cast, the word of the day is Horror, and rightly so.From the get-go, this little classic has some amazing kills, gory and crass, with enough haunting moments to garner a few chills along the way.Its 1982 for crying out loud, so lets not complain about the over dramatic performances. Just sit back and enjoy a true horror movie that really entertains.Superstition is super. Can't wait to find a digitally remastered version!

Superstition (1982) ** (out of 4) Bizarre little film about a house on some church property, which has been the site for countless strange murders. A new Reverend (James Houghton) is helping a family move into the house but more and more bodies begin to pile up so he starts doing some research and discovers that the location is where a witch was killed nearly three-hundred years earlier and now she's back for revenge. Okay, this movie doesn't make a bit of sense and the lackluster direction doesn't help but at the same time this thing is so weird that it's hard not to recommend it to horror fans. While watching the movie you'll think that this is yet another film trying to cash in on the success of THE AMITYVILLE HORROR and you'd be correct but the film also tries to mix in with the various slashers out at the time as we get some rather graphic death scenes and some gore. In terms of creepiness you're not going to find any. I'd say the main reason for this is the lackluster direction and Roberson is never able to build up any type of atmosphere and for the most part there's very little to no energy in any of the scenes. The film also doesn't seem to know what it wants to do as the screenplay is pretty much all over the place and leads to one confusing scene after another. In the end not much makes sense outside of the revenge aspect because characters are constantly showing up and disappearing without any rhyme or reason. The gore aspect of the film is an interesting thing because I'm guessing the MPAA were asleep at the wheel or just not paying attention to anything going on here because while films like Friday THE 13TH were cut to shreds by the group, this film here got away with quite a bit. We've got people getting a spike in the head, decapitations, bodies cut in half plus countless other scenes. The special effects aren't the greatest in the world but they're mildly effective. The gore level really doesn't mix with anything else in the film but it at least keeps you awake through some of the most confusing aspects. Houghton turns in a decent performance in the lead with Albert Salmi and Stacy Keach, Sr. doing fine work as well. The mixture of the story and gore doesn't work but it does make the film come off with a weird vibe and mix in the story and you've got a very strange ride. It's not a good film and God knows we've had countless good and bad witch movies but this one here is of interest due to the gore level.

I had never heard of this film until I stumbled across a few minutes of it one late night on TCM. And of course leave it to Netflix to find me a copy. The viewing experience of the entire film was somewhat of a disappointment, however. There were some interesting pieces here, but not enough of them to put together a compelling (albeit low budget) horror film. The story concerns some evil goings on at an old house owned by a church. A new pastor takes over and is ordered by local law enforcement to clean the place up as it has become a trash-strewn make-out site. The only regular inhabitants live in a cottage next door. They are an old woman and her mute, but apparently dangerous son. The new pastor, as well as an older one, heads out to the property to have a look around. And boy, do we find some strange goings on here....It turns out that the house is haunted by the ghost of a witch who was executed some 300 years earlier. She is some angry witch, too! She was in league with Satan, and still carries a grudge to this day. Anyone who tries to move into the house is usually killed violently. And that's a problem since another new pastor and his family will be moving in soon! There are sure a lot of pastors in this story. And this new one and his entire family basically serve as made-to-order victims for this witch. Policemen, home improvement workers, clergymen, you name it all get whacked by this witch! Almost the entire cast dies if I recall. And there are a few really gory deaths.After an eye-catching opening sequence where two pranksters are killed, this film quickly becomes a cheese fest. The acting is less than adequate for one thing, and the cast has few recognizable faces. Albert Salmi as the head cop is about the only guy I recognized. He had a brief role as Danny Noonan's dad in Caddyshack. The photography is generally clear and bright, but the action isn't blocked in a way that we can always tell what happens to people. The music at times seems upbeat and inappropriate. Sometimes it too closely resembles the opening tune from The Shining. I don't recall ever seeing much of the witch except her demon-like hands and her silhouette as she's approaching some victims. But we do get a close-up of something much more hideous. That being the bra-less boobs of the new preacher's wife as she stands by a window. Unfortunately she's an older woman who looks noting like one of the Real Housewives of Atlanta or similar cougar-themed shows. Its just a really curious shot when we'd rather see her two daughters up close like that. I'd give the entire venture about 4 of 10 stars.The Hound.