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Witchouse is a 1999 American horror film directed by David DeCoteau for Full Moon Features. It concerns a house party that's secretly a plot by the host to resurrect a sorcerous ancestor.
Was followed by two sequels, Witchouse II: Blood Coven in 2000 and Witchouse 3: Demon Fire in 2001.
This film contains examples of:
- Big Bad: Lilith Le Fey, the Wicked Witch manipulating the film's events from beyond the grave.
- The Dragon: Elizabeth Le Fey serves as this to her ancestor Lilith, resurrecting the witch and becoming her servant.
- Dragon Their Feet: Elizabeth makes one final attempt to kill our heroes after they kill Lilith again.
- Famous Ancestor: The villains of the film are descended from Morgana Le Fey of Arthurian myth.
- Fanservice: Maria in her underwear.
- Greater-Scope Villain: All evil witches, including the Le Fey clan, serve the Dark Ones, a group of immensely powerful but trapped eldritch abominations who are most powerful on May Day.
- Historical Rap Sheet: The Dark Ones, when they can exert their influence on May Day, have been responsible for the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, the Black Death and the creation of the atom bomb.
- Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday: May Day.
- Lovecraft Country: Literally set in Dunwich, Massachusetts.
- Lovecraft on Film: Implied to be part of the Cthulhu Mythos, due to being set in Dunwich, Massachusetts and the Necronomicon featuring.
- Magic Versus Science: The villains of the film are witches, and The Hero is an applied sciences major.
- Named After Somebody Famous: Lilith Le Fey was named after the Biblical Lilith.
- One-Word Title: As a Portmantitle of "Witch"+"House."
- Our Ghosts Are Different: These are corporeal spirits of resurrected sorcerers. They retain their magical abilities, and can possess several people at once. They're also slightly weak to Christian symbols, but able to overpower them very quickly due to serving much older and more powerful gods.
- Portmantitle: "Witch"+"House."
- Shout-Out:
- The house is directly compared to the house in The Amityville Horror (1979).
- One character confused Stephen Hawking with Stephen King, and when corrected says more alcohol will lead to her calling him Bozo the Clown.
- Sins of Our Fathers: The victim pool of the film are the descendants of the witch hunters who executed Lilith.
- Villain Opening Scene: Elizabeth killing a couple making out in the basement of her house.
- Would Hurt a Child: Lilith was killed by witch hunters while in the process of sacrificing a child to the Dark Ones.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: Tony, the stoner character, is convinced that he's in a Slasher Movie and acts accordingly. The film's actually occult horror.
