Witchcraft 7: Judgement Hour

Plot synopsis:
Prologue: Two prostitutes, Rachel and Sally, have been hired to service the crowd at a party being thrown by the Polytechnic Institute to celebrate an upcoming merger. When Rachel is approached by Mr Tall, Blonde, and Handsome, she is only too happy to accomodate him...until he sinks his teeth into her neck.Attorney Will Spanner (David Byrnes) has been called to the Hospital emergency room by his friends Jack and Emily Hart because their little boy was hit by a drunk driver. While there, Will sees a girl being brought in by her hysterical roommate. Sally says that Rachel was found lying on a table during a party at the Polytechnic Institute and that she doesn't know what happened to her. Shortly after being brought in, Rachel goes into cardiac arrest and dies. When the hospital priest attempts to perform last rites on her, his cross mysteriously bursts into flames. Will takes a look at the body and notices two fang marks in her neck, so he calls his LAPD friends, Detectives Lutz (Alisa Christensen) and Garner (John Cragen), to come view the body. Lutz thinks that the bites may have been made by a snake; Garner suggests killer bees. As Garner is examining the bites, Rachel's eyes suddenly snap open. She knocks out Will and Lutz, kicks Garner in the balls, and runs out of the room.Will, Lutz, and Garner drive around looking for Rachel, figuring that she couldn't get very far dressed only in a backless hospital gown. Assuming that she will avoid the main roads, they decide to check out Echo Park. Indeed, they come across Rachel feeding on a jogger that she enticed into the bushes. When Lutz orders her to freeze, Rachel rises off the body, blood dripping from her mouth, and leaps at Lutz. Lutz fires two bullets, knocking her to the ground, but when Will bends over to look at the jogger's body, Rachel rises again, knocks him to the ground, and lunges at Lutz. Will picks up a tree branch and rams it into her chest.The next day, Will calls his friend Jack, who works at the INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) for information about the Romanian-based Polytechnic Institute. Then he, Lutz, and Garner pay a visit to the Institute, which has been roped off as a crime scene. Because the scene has already been gone over by Forensics, there isn't much to see until Garner notices the security camera focused on the table where Rachel was found. They ask for the videotape and take it back to headquarters to watch. On the tape, they see Rachel writhing on the table, but she is alone. Will realizes that what they are seeing is Rachel being ravaged by an unphotographable vampire.The vampire is Martin Hassa (Loren Schmalle), born in 1581. Hassa is head of Polytech and is planning a merger with Cobal Corporation, an insurance company that is the major insurer of the U.S. blood supply. Cobal's merger with Polytech will give Hassa that control, and tonight is the corporate signing that will seal the deal. When Hassa finds out about Lutz, Garner, and Will snooping around the premises and confiscating the security tape, he has Costanza, his assistant, phone the mayor and order that the investigation of Rachel's "murder" at Polytech be stopped. Then he beheads the guard that gave away the videotape. He excuses himself from the merger talks and, in the form of a bat, flies to Will's house. Will is on the phone with Jack, so Hassa bites Will's girlfriend Keli while she sleeps. When Will comes to bed, Keli suddenly wakes up and tries to bite his neck. Will knocks her out and ties her to the bedposts.Meanwhile, Lutz and Garner have picked up Rachel's roommate Sally for questioning. At first, Sally is mum, but she eventually reveals that she and Rachel were hired to prostitute the party. Unfortunately, she can't remember the name of the guy that Rachel was with...Marty something. The bites on Sally's neck reveal that Sally has also been bitten. Suddenly, Sally begins to convulse and passes out on the floor. She is taken to the hospital, and Lutz and Garner head over to Polytech to talk with "Marty". They don't know it, but Will is also on his way to Polytech, armed with a big pointy stake.Snooping around the yard, Lutz and Garner meet up with Will. Will convinces them to wait outside (to catch anyone who tries to escape) while he goes inside to take care of Martin Hassa. As Will sneaks his way into the building, Garner calls out through a megaphone announcing the LAPD and telling everyone inside to come out with their hands up. This causes Kent, Polytech's public relations manager, to panic, and he begins ranting about "not getting away with it" and "killing all those women." Hassa tries to convince the merger committee that Kent is having a nervous breakdown, but the committee calls off the merger.Hassa suddenly perceives Will's presence in the building and goes looking for him. When they finally meet, Hassa changes himself into a demonbat and goes after Will. In the fight that ensues, Will manages to pierce Hassa's chest with the stake, but Hassa pulls Will on to the stake, too. By the time Lutz and Garner reach him, Will is dead and Hassa has disappeared. [Not to worry. Will Spanner returns in "Witchcraft 9".] Hassa hightails it to Will's bedroom and cuts the bindings from Keli's wrist. He orders Keli to remove the stake from his chest, promising her eternal life. Instead, Keli pushes the stake in further, sending Hassa reeling backwards and out the window where he falls into a whirling vertex of fire (hell). [Original synopsis by BJ Kuehl]

Tags: paranormal

Review:
Witchcraft 7 Judgement Hour: At last it ends, or does it?.
Good warlock Mr Spanner returns and this time he is battling vampires, just when you thought the Witchcraft franchise couldn't get any dumber it does.This however was advertised as "The final chapter" alas they lied, in fact this was only half way through what is shaping up to be the worst movie franchise in history.What concerns me most is the fact that these were not cheap films, they each cost an average of a million dollars each so why do they look so damn awful?Judgement Hour also ramps the eroticism up, you can barely go two scenes without a sex scene or some level of nudity.
I'm your standard red blooded male who has his hand on his junk at least 10% of the day, but still this was overkill.Once again Witchcraft 7 is truly awful stuff.The Good:I'll get back to you on thatThe Bad:Naff villianAppalling sfxThings I Learnt From This Movie:The Witchcraft franchise must have survived by devolving into softcore pornOne of the DVD special features was Julie Strains topless comedy jam, nuff said.
Ridiculously awful.
Will Spanner (David Byrnes, the fifth actor to play the role in the series) stumbles onto another bizarre case, this time involving vampires rather than the usual witches, warlocks & demons (he's at the hospital to check on his friend's son who got hurt in a hit and run when they wheel a girl who's been attacked by a vamp in).
He brings in Detectve Lutz to help out with the case which revolves around a clandestine vampire organization trying to get a business merger to go through to let them legally own all the blood banks in the world or some such nonsense.The plot of this movie pretty much takes a backseat to the nudity & simulated sex scenes.
(As is to be expected from this series, i guess).
So complaining about the lack of good acting, or compelling plot-line, or even convincing characters, I suspect, would fall on deaf ears.
If you're watching this film, you don't care about such 'frivolities' and just want some 'action'.
Sadly on that front the film fails as well.
All the woman are attractive enough but the way the scenes are filmed are just atrocious.
Making this more or less an exercise in futility in every conceivable way.Eye Candy: Both Kimberly Blair & April Breneman show everything; Ashlie Rhey shows full- frontal; Aline Kassman & Mai-Lis Holmes only shows their breastsMy Grade: D.
How is this possible?
This manages to be the worse in the series..
This was supposed to be the final sequel in this awful series of films.
But, guess what?
They lied.Story involves Will Spaner fighting off a vampire that is trying to close a business deal that could give him great powers.
The stories in this series just keep getting worse and worse.
The acting and direction are non-existent.
The film looks cheap and the effects are some of the worse ever.
I wonder what the filmmakers are trying to do?
Make more sequels for a series of films, than any other series of films.
Avoid this film at all cost.
Rating: 1 out of 10..
The Worst So Far and Yes That's Saying A lot.
Witchcraft 7: Judgment Hour (1995) 1/2 (out of 4) Everyone's beloved hero Will Spanner (David Byrnes) is back but this time he needs a break from all those creepy and mean Satan worshipers.
So, this time out Will decides to battle a vampire cult who like taking their clothes off as much as they can (and biting people every once in a while).
As I make my way through the series it's clear that the films themselves aren't very good but thankfully up until this one they were at least entertaining in a bad way.
This seventh entry is just downright awful on pretty much every level and this includes the non-stop sex scenes, all of which are shot in slow motion, which means a longer running time and more torture for the viewer.
What we've basically got is about ten-minutes worth of plot and the rest sex scenes.
Even for such a cheap series the adult scenes were usually at least somewhat erotic but that's not the case here.
The scenes are shot very ugly, usually just a close-up of the girl's butt and none of them create any sparks.
Even the nudity gets boring around the twenty-minute mark but I'm going to guess that this contains more nudity than most of the softcore pictures from this era.
The vampire stuff is all rather silly and adds up to nothing.
Byrnes really doesn't bring any energy to the role of Will and the supporting cast is just as forgetful.
What's strange about this entry is that they bring back the two detectives from the previous film but this time they're played by different actors.
That's not too shocking as this happens in low-budget movies but the weird thing is that one of the detectives is now played as a woman!.
Will Spaner the warlock from parts 1-6 returns yet again for what has now got to be the longest (and worst) running horror film series in history.
This entry finds Will having to do battle with some pesky vampires who are now overrunning LA.Lousy premise is almost laughable, the acting and effects even worse.
Directed with a bit more flair then the first 6, but still this series at this point is only about sex and this one has plenty of it.
Unrated; Strong Sexual Content, Violence, Profanity, and Nudity..
One Thousand naked breasts.
*SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT*I had rented "Witchcraft 7" because it had a vicious looking vampire on the video box cover.
Perhaps I should have snuck a peek at the previous entries in the series to get a taste for where the movie was heading.
The video box screamed vampires but the movie had only boobies.
Lots of breasts.
A thousand or so.
OK, that's a slight exaggeration.
Very slight.
Horror is nowhere in sight.
There is just softcore sex and breasts.
I'm not complaining too loudly mind you.
If I was going to get cheated out of a horror flick, this was the best way.
Don't rent it though if you are expecting horror.
I now know what to expect from the "Witchcraft" series.
I may have to check out a few more.