Witch Hunt (1994)

Directed by

Paul Schrader

Genre

comedy horror, neo-noir

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 40m

Rating

5.2 of 10 from 46 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A private detective in 1950s Hollywood investigates a murder tied to magic and witchcraft. He refuses to use magic himself due to a past trauma. The case pulls him into a world of illusion and danger.

noirishcampywhimsicalmysteriousretrodeadpansupernatural

What happens

Witch Hunt is a 1994 HBO fantasy detective television film directed by Paul Schrader and starring Dennis Hopper, Penelope Ann Miller and Eric Bogosian. The film, written by Joseph Dougherty, is a sequel to the 1991 film Cast a Deadly Spell, with Hopper playing private detective H. Phillip Lovecraft and replacing Fred Ward. Additionally, many characters have different backstories than in Cast a Deadly Spell. For example, Lovecraft refuses to use magic in Cast a Deadly Spell on principle, but in Witch Hunt he refuses because of a bad experience which he has had. The original music score was composed by Angelo Badalamenti. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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