While leaving campus one dark evening, college student Julie (Elizabeth Kaitan) is raped by her one of her fellow classmates. Feeling powerless and looking for revenge, she turns to a local witch (Lois Matsen) for help. She performs a satanic ritual and imbues Julie with a green-eyed succubus who roams around at night seducing and killing the men who wronged her.
I’ve always been a big fan of Elizabeth Kaitan. I think she really deserved a career outside of cheesy horror flicks and B movies. With her raspy voice and crimson mane (although it’s dyed blonde here), she was always a welcome presence in even the worst cinematic offerings. Here, she gets a decent topless scene, although it’s not nearly enough to make the often-laborious film worth sitting through.
Necromancer is one of those annoying types of movies when just when it should be over, it plods on about twenty minutes more. All the plot threads have been wrapped up, but it conveniently finds new ways to drag on. The superfluous nerd character (who looks like Keith Gordon in Christine, but with green streaks in his hair) feels particularly tacked on. I’m not sure if the director lost a bet and had to give this guy a part or what, but he’s quite annoying and unnecessary.
There is just enough stupidity to keep you watching though. For instance, the witch’s place of business is hilarious. It looks like an ‘80s version of a hipster pop-up boutique. That is to say, the witch just pitched a tent in her driveway, decorated the insides with a bunch of witchcraft shit, and called it a day.
Also, get a load of Russ Tamblyn as Kaitan’s professor (and former flame). He really chews the scenery and makes his work in all those Al Adamson movies seem downright Shakespearean in comparison. In fact, he even gets to perform Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” soliloquy in this and boy is it ever… something.
The monster is really lame too as it looks like a bunch of strawberry jam wearing a blond wig. I did like the green-eyed demon effects whenever Kaitan goes to kill somebody though. They were sort of reminiscent of Bobbi Bresee’s transformation in Mausoleum. If only Kaitan had a pair of monster boobs like Bobbi did in that picture. Maybe then, Necromancer would’ve been worthwhile.
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