Witchtrap

Seems like an appropriate title to kick off October – a haunted house, devil-worshipping spirit, witches, seances, ghost hunters, surly detectives, and hammy acting.

If you learn nothing else about Witchtrap, you must know this: It is NOT a sequel to Witchboard! It just has the same writer, director, actors, poster art, and villain character design. It’s super-dumb, but its saving grace is that it also has: Linnea Quigley! Enjoy the episode, you chuckleheads.

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Witchtrap (1989)

Episode 231, 2 Guys and a Chainsaw

Todd: Hello and welcome to another episode of Two Guys and a Chainsaw. I’m Todd.

Craig: And I’m Craig.

Todd: After a couple of weeks of fairly heavy movies that were a, a little bit deep and a little depressing and serious, we decided to get to something totally goofy and fun. Something we knew. I would be totally goofy and fun. So this week, what we are doing is 1989’s Witchtrap, which is not to be confused with which board it is definitely not a sequel to Witchboard, which, uh, it’s tells you in the very, very beginning before the title credits and as plastered all over the VHS box art, even though.

Witchtrap and Witchboard are written and directed by the same guy, Kevin also happens to star a bad evil spirit with a big beard and hair that terrorizes people, and doesn’t really pop into play until the very end of the movie. Oh played also by the same guy, actually, most of the people in this movie were also in which board.

Yeah, I guess we just had to make okay. Clear in case you didn’t know, but the similarities between the two movies are huge and we love Kevin S Tenny. We’ve done a couple of his other movies. We really did enjoy a which board as I recall. And, uh, we’re big fans of night of the demons. At least nine of the demons is just one of the most iconic horror movies of the late eighties in its corniness, cheesiness, and just overall fun.

Yeah. And effects. So, uh, yeah, this, this movie came out, I believe a year before night of the demons and two years after which board and then sequel to Witchboard came out later, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, these are the movies. Kevin Tenney is most famous for, even though he was making stuff up into two thousands and apparently had to step in for a character in this movie as well and put on what has to be one of the most excellent acting debuts of all.

Yeah. Oh my God. I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen this movie before actually. Although the box art. Always attracted me in the video store. Certainly hadn’t seen it. And I think I actually had confused it with which board, because actually the box art, if you’re trying to make your movie not be confused with another movie, don’t make the box art look almost exactly the same.

Right. And then don’t put on the box art for your other movie this time. It’s not a game. Well, I don’t know. I mean, taken on its own, Witchtrap apparently was never a game in the first place. But if you compare it to Witchboard which is referring to a Ouija board, then I guess he’s trying to say this time, it’s not a game because it’s not a sequel to which board.

So anyway, uh, boy, this was quite a fun movie to watch and I’m looking forward to chatting about it, but I’m pretty sure this is the first time I’d watched it. How about you?

Craig: It’s funny that you say you’re pretty sure you hadn’t seen it before. Cause I feel the same way. I’m not really sure. I didn’t think I had, and then watching it, I don’t know.

I may have. Uh, but frankly, uh, it’s not particularly memorable. So if I had seen it before, I’m not really surprised that I don’t remember much, if anything about it. I don’t know. No. The only thing that I really knew about it was that it was made by the same. Folks as a, the people who made Witchboard, which again, was a positive in my book because I am a fan of Witchboard, but like you said, they go out of their way to let us know.

It is certainly not a sequel. And it’s not though, like you said, they are strikingly similar in many ways, but. I think that which board while certainly no masterpiece is far superior this movie, you know, gosh, I’m not really sure what to say about it. The thing that, the thing that struck me most, well, there are a lot of, thanks.

I think it has some of the worst, cringiest dialogue I’ve ever seen in a movie. Oh

Todd: God.

Craig: I mean, obviously I know who wrote it, but in my head I kept thinking who wrote this? These lines are so stupid and nobody would ever say these things. Secondly, the active is pretty darn bad across the board.

Todd: Everybody. There’s not a good actor in this whole movie.

Craig: Now it’s ...