Witchcraft XI: Sisters in Blood (dir. Ron Ford, 2000)
Sisters in Blood is about a trio of college girls attending the St. Sebastian College drama school. Our main character is Colleen (Miranda Odell), the younger sister of Keli, now Kelly (Wendy Blair). Keli, if you’ll recall, is Will Spanner’s longtime girlfriend, now fiancee, and who has never been played by the same actress twice. Will Spanner is back too, played by James Servais. Will, however, is only a supporting character in this one.
Maria is possessed by the soul of one of the original Wyrd Sisters that “Macbeth” was based on. She turns into a murderous bisexual minx who spends the bulk of the film trying to lure her two friends, and her teacher, into the Satanic fold. Is it me, or is that a really cool story? Sure, it has its share of bad acting and tits, they use dictionaries as Bibles, you can see the strings in the special effects, and the dialogue is still pretty golden (“Someone killed a priest!” “Was it murder?”), but I’m so happy to have a modicum of cleverness in the baseline story.
Colleen announces early in the film that she doesn’t believe in God, and she and Keli, a believer herself, have some conversations about faith and its place in their lives. Here is a cheap, smutty exploitation movie that actually has a conversation about faith in it. It’s not a very sophisticated conversation, to be sure, but that the filmmakers actually bothered to include it shows ambition.
Lutz and Garner (Stephanie Beaton and Mikul Robins, both back from previous films) appear to investigate. At one point, Satan bamboozles them, and they are both ghost-raped. Whee!
What a fun film. This has been the highlight of my journey, really. The spirit, however, will not be kept alive. Let’s take a look at…
