Witchcraft, tainted family history, and murder mysteries are very
agreeable story themes, but writer and director Angelo Pannaccio, hitherto unknown to me, gives these horror
hallmarks an attractively perverse edge with Sex of the Witch.
This is one of those films that brings a
substantially large group of shady relatives together in a family mansion for
the reading of a will, with the inheritance
being split equally among the relatives, with an added stipulation that if any
beneficiary should die before a certain time, their share must be split among
the surviving heirs. Of course this will inevitably create a murderer or two,
amongst the family. I’ve seen a similar plot device in a couple other movies, One Body Too Many and Legacy of Blood, but something
different with Sex of the Witch is
the inclusion of a perverse, evil witch relative with a good measure of hate
and malice for the family, which gives what could’ve been a routine plot device
a rather demented and supernatural spin.