FORMAT: BLU-RAY
A young college student (Robert Short) in Texas runs out of gas on his way to a singing festival in a small town where everyone speaks German and dresses like they did a hundred years ago. He’s preparing a thesis on witches and quickly learns the locals are very superstitious, especially on the subject of witches. The only one eager to help him is a young blond named Kriska (Jo Maryman). When he stupidly digs up the witch’s grave, he accidentally revives her, and the nude witch (Libby Hall) sets out to get revenge on the descendants of the man who accused her.
The Naked Witch starts with an unnecessarily long (and mostly inaccurate) history of witches accompanied by long lingering shots of paintings. The only thing that makes it memorable is the fact that it’s narrated by Laugh-In’s Gary Owens. This is followed by a long stretch of boring narration from our hero. Once he arrives at the village, it becomes obvious the production didn’t use synch sound for many scenes (or it was considered unusable) as the dialogue is often poorly dubbed. Other times, the narration is dropped over conversations to let the audience know what is being said by the characters, which gets annoying fast. It’s almost enough to make Manos, the Hands of Fate look quasi-professional.
Co-directed by schlockmeister extraordinaire Larry Buchanan, The Naked Witch is rough going for the most part. It also takes a long time to get to the “naked witch” shit. To make matters worse, there are scenes of the witch walking around naked, but for some stupid reason, all the naughty bits have been obscured! What the hell. Fortunately, whenever she’s skinny dipping, we finally get to see a little skin. It just seemed odd to me that whenever she’s on dry land her body is blurred out. I’m not sure what kind of witchcraft that is, but it sucks. At least the close-ups of the witch’s face are marginally effective. Sadly, that’s the only part of her that gets a good close-up.
AKA: Witches.
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