It took one movie, one single movie then the franchise returned to it's old formula. For a second I saw hope, but hope is thoroughly lost now.This ninth addition to the series see's the return of longtime lead Willy Spanner the warlock. Trouble is as per part sevens finale he's dead, and it'll take a hooker with a heart to help his ghost.Also returning is the ridiculous levels of t&a which here is beyond gratuitous! Sex scenes are fine but when they take up quarter of the film it becomes an issue.With no consistency with the previous film this is yet another mindless Witchcraft movie with a bad plot, ropey sfx and lots and lots of boobage.The Good:NopeThe Bad:Back to making all the same mistakes Things I Learnt From This Movie:Death causes immediate excessive hair growthThe creators should seriously consider a career shift to porn

Two dead bodies are on the floor of a modern art gallery, one of them belonging to lawyer/ warlock Will Spanner. Spanner gets up out of his body, at which point his body disappears. Detectives Lutz and Garner find the other body, then later find the body of a woman who's had her heart cut out, and Egyptian symbols painted on the wall in black along with a triangle with an eye over it painted in blood.Spanner wanders around as a ghost, until he finds someone who can hear (but not see) him. That person is Sheila, a hooker, who's gained some powers after having a car accident.This being an erotic horror movie, or at least having ambitions in that direction, there are a few sex scenes with Sheila. There are also some involving Spanner's girlfriend Keli with someone using his body.Spanner tries to warn his girlfriend, about whom Sheila has had a bad premonitory nightmare, and their story intersects with that of the police investigation. Stephanie Beaton plays Detective Lutz, formerly played by Alisa Christensen in Witchcraft 7. Being a Detective, evidently one is allowed to wear high heels, short skirts, and extremely low-cut blouses; good thing, too! Garner and Keli are played by different actors than in part seven as well, but David Byrnes returns as Spanner.This movie picks up where Witchcraft 7 left off (also directed by Girard), though it rewrites how that one ended to some extent. Spanner's dead in a gallery instead of a home. There's another body with him, when the one in 7 was a not-dead-yet vampire who crawled away and died elsewhere. Lutz and Garner saw Spanner dead, here they didn't. Spanner has long hair and a goatee he lacked in part seven.There are some confusing images during the opening credits of this one which are not in this movie, which are flashbacks to that one. Consequently, it may be better to watch 7 before this, though with most other titles in the series the order doesn't matter. Part Eight is unrelated.This is fairly entertaining, although it takes a while to get moving. Will Spanner wanders around a lot in the beginning, and we meet some characters who turn out to be unimportant. The actress playing Sheila performs a bit unevenly, but that may have been the direction she was given.

This is by far, in my opinion, the best Witchcraft movie. This one actually has a story! The others are soft-core porn thinly disguised as horror movies. I'm not saying that this one didn't have any sex scenes. It did. Alot of them to. But it still had more of a story line. There were only a couple of downsides to it. One of them was the guy who played the pimp. Jesus! I wanted to smack this guy around more then anything! His acting was that bad! Also, they didn't show Stephanie Beaton that much! But I think that was because this was her first Witchcraft appearance. Other than that, this is the best Witchcraft entry!!

If the first Witchcraft turned you off, because it was repetitive, boring and plotless, then join the club. In fact every Witchcraft movie is like that, but (with the exception of the first) each title has lots'a hot chicks doin' it for the sake of entertainment. In my opinion the fifth installment of the series illustrated this point best, but when you want a close second place, think Witchcraft IX: Bitter Flesh.