The Touch of Satan

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joe m What a stinker - and that's even with watching "The Touch of Satan" on MST3K! Mike, Crow and Servo couldn't squeeze much humor out of this film, the tale of a strange rural farm family where the girl is 'possessed'. She then lures an unsuspecting young man on a road trip in to her world of witchcraft. The plot was intriguing yet the whole film was acted as if everyone was in a catatonic state. Avoid! Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member I'm giving this movie a decent star rating because the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version of this movie is hilariously awesome, but on it's own merits, this movie is hideously horrible. The acting is terrible & the story gets weakened badly by..............the...............insanely............long..............pauses in dialogue. When the most well acted scene in the movie is "This is where the fish lives", you know you have a horrible movie on your hands. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Audience Member "Come sit with me, and Satan too...he's your friend and miiiiine!" Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member This receives the high star rating for the MST3K version, though I imagine this would be a bit amusing to see in its original form, as it felt a bit edited once the bots got through with it. Rental! Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review valhalla7 s Touch of Satan is the shopworn and fairly predictable story of a young man named Jodie who meets and falls for a beautiful young woman named Melissa, only to discover that she harbors a dark secret and he would have done well never to become involved with her. It features no actors that you're likely to have heard of, has production values that were middling by seventies standards, and brings no new twist to the genre. The only things that set it apart from most other low budget horror movies of the period are its almost glacial slowness and its inability to tell whether it wants to be a horror movie or a sappy romance. It seemed like the opening credits alone took up five minutes, but it's entirely possible that this is a low estimate. From here, the first half of the film feels like a Lifetime original special as the young man becomes acquainted with Melissa, meets her family, and makes lots of pointless small talk. This is all extremely boring, not just because nothing is happening, but because it takes so long for nothing to happen. Every conversation is filled with long awkward pauses, as if the actors were doing their best to stretch the run time. There's also plenty of times where you also the feeling that Melissa's parents know a lot more than they're letting on about any number of things, and would tell us if only they could remember what those things were. One almost suspects that everyone in this movie was on downers. At long last the plot starts eventually going somewhere as we learn Melissa is a witch and that maybe her semi-fossilized great grandmother has more wrong with her than just dementia. Unfortunately this doesn't produce any change in the tone or pacing of the movie. When Melissa shows Jodie the remote shack where she does witchcraft, it's treated not with suspense or unease but as a semi obligatory lyrical interlude. By this point I had practically forgotten about the confusing pre title sequence in which a farmer is pitchforked to death while the editor appears to have a seizure. Even when Touch of Satan finally gets to the parts that are supposed to be scary, the sad truth is they really aren't. Instead the final act produces only puzzlement and the occasional bad laugh as everyone involved does the very last thing that it would make any sense for them to do. After seeing a sheriff's deputy brutally murdered, Jodie meekly allows a man twice his age to chain him up in a barn, and when unlocked agrees to hang around and not tell anyone what's happened. A girl who is supposedly possessed by Satan himself shows a baffling lack of evil intent, calmly imploring Jodie that if he'll just believe what she's telling him he can save her. And in my favorite part a man greets a torch wielding mob that's marched to his front door chanting "burn the witch!" with "What can I do for you?" Eventually the danger passes and the true villain is dispatched in a manner so easy that you wonder if all this trouble could have been solved with a good nursing home. At this point the movie misses its exit cue and shambles on to an ending that tries to be unsettling and romantic at the same time and fails at both. By this point, you'll probably be long past caring. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Decent episode of MST3K. Terrible movie. The fish needed more screen time. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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