Witchcraft II: The Temptress

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Witchcrat II: The Temptress
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Directed by	Mark Woods
Produced by	Megan Barnett, Jerry Feifer Renza Mizbani
Written by	Jim Hanson Sal Manna
Starring	Charles Solomon Delia Sheppard David Homb
Music by	Miriam Cutler
Cinematography	Jens Sturup
Editing by	Tony Miller
Distributed by	Simitar Entertainment (USA, DVD)
Release date(s)	1990
Running time	88 min.
Country	USA
Language	English
Budget	$80,000
Preceded by	Witchcraft
Followed by	Witchcraft III: The Kiss of Death
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Witchcraft II: The Temptress is a 1990 sequel to the 1998 direct-to-video film Witchcraft. The film is directed by Mark Woods from a screenplay by both Jim Hanson and Sal Manna. The movie was released on video in May of 1990 and re-released on DVD format on October 22, 1997. The film stars Charles Solomon, Delia Sheppard, David Homb, Mia M. Ruiz, Jay Richardson, Cheryl Janecky, Mary Shelley, and Frank Woods. After the women stayed covered in the first film¸ the seconds marks the beginning of the series’ spiral into softcore porn territory.

1 Plot Summary
2 Budget
3 Production Difficulties
4 External links

[edit] Plot Summary

In the span of a couple years William Churchill has somehow become a fully-grown and eighteen years old. Now played by Charles Solomon (probably 28 at the time this was shot), who would take on the role for the next two parts in the series, Williams’ last name has been changed to Adams. Turns out that William’s parents were involved in the coven that was all set to kill baby William in order to bring Satan to the Earth. They couldn’t bear to see it happen, so they took William and ran. Now William, who doesn’t realize his power, has to deal with his witch-temptress-neighbor by the name of Dolores Jones. Delores, however, is actually Elizabeth Churchill, the evil witch from the first film, who has whipped up a spell that turns her into the voluptuous middle-aged neighbor.

[edit] Budget

The film cost $80,000 to make and wound up making over one million dollars for the distributors, thus giving them enough money for the production company Vista Street to produce an additional 12 films.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Production Difficulties

The script that Mark Woods was given less than a week before shooting was full of "bullshit." Woods and AD Gabriele Bacher rewrote forty-five pages of the original script, which was "some sort of spoof that didn't make sense," in just four days.^{[citation needed]}

Woods and the producers were unsure about whether or not Delia Sheppard would present any problems when asked to do nudity.^{[citation needed]}

Once shooting finally started, Mark Woods was handicapped by the incompetence of cinematographer Jens Sturup, who was only on the movie because he was dating producer Megan Barnett. This led to Woods, who was a cinematographer by trade, operating the camera for more than half of the shoot.^{[citation needed]}

Principal photography time frame (of filming): 13 days.^{[citation needed]}