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Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Necropolis (1986) - Horror Witch

Necropolis (1986) -  LeeAnne Baker stars as Eva a reincarnated witch in NYC as she travels around using her demonic influence to take the lives of others. Sucking their life force, a slime like goo from them. This goo she then feeds to her undead followers via breast feeding with her six breasted chest. Baker who had a super short but spirited career for a couple years where she was in seven films including Breeders (1986) also a very gooey film and Galactic Gigolo (1987) the platinum blonde slim, fit girl strikes all the right poses as she uses her sexuality to get what she wants. Her magic which comes from worshiping Satan she has the ability to talk people into doing thing as extreme as suicide in order to get what she wants. Part of the Full Moon Grindhouse collection this film certainly has the grimy NYC so often seen in grindhouse films. The version I watched was a full screen lacking a good print to give it a theatrical look. Looking like it was transferred from video a lot of the film is a bit too dark.
 Working two sides of the story. We follow the lovely Baker as she initiates her plan to bring back her followers, making victims of the sleazy characters she runs into.  Not nice and with an incredible number of costume changes Baker exudes the evil she contains. Opposed to her is a trio of a cop a virgin and a minister. The cop Billy (Michael Conte) spend less time chasing the witch as he does chasing the tail of Dawn (Jacquie Fitz). Still through his interactions with a preacher (George Anthony-Rayza) seemed to bring him up to speed about the strange deaths in this run down bit of the city.
Listen there is not a lot going on with this film and as a completed product its appeal is limited. In the end good and evil meet and who knows who is going to win that battle. Will the witch be successful in bringing her followers into modern times? If she does isn't the magic she is introducing the movie that should have been made? Writer - Director Bruce Hickey lets the film slip in pacing and the acting by mostly inexperienced group when it comes to film struggle to make their characters compelling. The weird six breasted witch is something to see thanks to special effects by Matt Vogel. Still this film although it takes itself very seriously wasn't really my cup of tea.

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