Witches of the Caribbean (2005) (V)

Director:

David DeCoteau

Writer:

Jana K. Arnold (writer)

Release Date:

10 December 2005 (Italy)

Genre:

Drama | Fantasy | Horror

Plot:

A troubled young girl travels to an island in the Carribean for therapy after a recurring dream about the island disrupts her sleep. While there, she meets a host of other troubled teenagers, who may well be more than what they seem... |

Plot Keywords:

Bikini | Heart Ripped Out | Death | Murder | Revenge

Cast

Joanna Cassidy	...	Professor Avebury
Nicole Cavazos	...	Angela
Nicole Marie Monica	...	Bethany
Kelli Giddish	...	Clara
Michael King	...	Cutter
Nina Tapanin	...	Enid
Kyle Jordan	...	Jerry
Ric Sarabia	...	Magistrate Harriman
Helene Udy	...	Tilda Harriman
Catherine Munden	...	Anne Prescott
Owen Steuart	...	Dino

MPAA:

Rated R for violence and gore.

Runtime:

Argentina:85 min | UK:75 min

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Argentina:16 | USA:R | UK:15

Filming Locations:

Turks and Caicos Islands

witchcraft with the power to induce sleep; film-making that makes you want to claw out your eyes

Some troubled youths stay on a Caribbean island with a counselor, and they all have dreams about a witch who had been burnt to death there years earlier. One of them is a witch, though for some reason people insist on saying that she "says" she's a witch or "believes" she's a witch, which is silly.

There's little to recommend this at all. It's terribly dull. Endless conversations that serve no purpose. Scenes in which there's a montage of scenes which came earlier, which serve no purpose in being repeated except to pad out the running time. The guys take their shirts off more than once. The ladies don't. A bad movie like this needs gratuitous nudity; that doesn't make the movie better particularly, it just makes it a bad movie with nudity, which is generally preferable to a bad movie without it.

There are some apparent deaths in which hearts are grabbed out of the chest. Somehow, this creates huge spurts of blood that go all over the face of the now heartless person. Somehow, these people are able to scream well after their hearts are ripped out. I suppose that's the power of witchcraft.

Some of the powers of witchcraft, incidentally, are depicted by the use of green light. Very cheesy. It either shoots out of objects hitting people, or makes eyes glow or whatnot.

Supposedly this was shot on the Turks and Caicos Islands, a UK territory that had been part of their Jamaican colony. However, the locations are wasted so much they might as well have shot it on the California coast and pretended it was the Caribbean.