Witchtrap (1989)
aka The Presence Dir. Kevin S. Tenney Witchtrap is not a sequel to Witchboard (1986). And that’s a good thing. They’re more or less the same movie; a group of people get picked off one-by-one by an evil spirit and eventually the main girl gets possessed by said spirit. The evil spirits are even both played by the same dude and look pretty much identical. And while ‘ Board is arguably a better movie from a production standpoint, ‘ Trap is just so much more damn fun, thanks in large part to James W. Quinn, whom Witchboard , as its greatest sin, kills off in the first 20 minutes. There’s also no Zarabeth in Witchtrap , which is a huge plus. The film begins with a Tony Clifton-looking entertainer type being chased around a house by swooping camera shots before getting thrown out a second story window to his death. This is a problem for Devon Lauder, who has inherited the house from his dead uncle Avery, but cannot sell the house to to a stipulation in his will. In or...