WITCHTRAP
Where bad writing slides into new depths
From the guy responsible for the Witchboard movies comes this D-grade ripoff of The Haunting, loaded up with absurd, "wacky" characters and impossibly silly dialogue ("Well, scratch my ass." "Not until I know you better!"). Effects are what you'd expect, the dialogue is awful, and the acting is some of the worst I've seen. Did I mention the dialogue? ("They don't understand what a ghost really is." "And what's that?" "The soul of someone who has lived and died.")
A team of psychic researchers investigate a six-megabuck mansion haunted by the ghost of a male witch which doesn't like company. Scratch some psychic researchers. ("How are you doing?" "Fine. But who's been using my head as a basketball?")
The script is one of the most hopelessly inane I've ever seen actually get filmed, loaded with clichés like "It's a dog-eat-dog world out there. You've gotta play hardball if you want to beat the rats at the rat race." Really, I hope you've gotta know somebody to get a script like that made.
Lots of gratuitous nudity though, so that's one less thing to complain about. And it has an exploding head, which is something I never tire of seeing; which is basically, the big case for a "Scanners: The TV Series".
Also known as The Presence, if you care. Watch only if you're interested in a lesson in truly bad writing. And hey, sometimes, that's just the ticket, ain't it?