***SPOILERS** Nowhere as effective as it was back in 1982 when it was first released, in being banned in countries like the UK, "Supersition' still gives off a number of jolts to its audience in that almost everyone in the film ends up suffering a gruesome death by the time it's over.
The standard horror movie plot has to do with this creepy old house that was involved some 300 years ago in the execution-by drowning-of its owner accused witch and Satanist Elondra Sharack. Over the years anyone who lived in the Sharack house who wasn't a Sharack family member met a horrific death. Now with a new Reverend-Rev. Thompson-in town looking to disprove that the Sharack House is haunted by the Devil him or herself the horrors that were dormant there for so long came back! And came back with a vengeance.
Afer a few horrific deaths in and around the Sharack House were then brought back to olden times-the summer of 1692-to when the house got cursed by it's owner Elowdra Sharack who was declared a witch by the local priest Pike. After Elowdra's execution Pike and the townspeople who participated in it started to get second thoughts about what they did. That's because most of them ended up getting mysteriously killed with Pike's church being burned down moments after Elowdra's execution! As time went on anyone who lived in the Sharack House ended up meeting a terrifying death there with the exception of Elowdra's most recent descendant Elvira and her mute and brain damaged son Arien who were immune from her curse.
***SPOILERS*** Playing with fire Rev. Thompson had the Leahy family headed by Rev. John move into the Sharack House until he could find them a permanent place to stay in town. If Rev. Thompson didn't know it at the time he soon found out that by having the Leahys move into the cursed Sharack House he in fact condemned them to death!
One of the goriest and blood splattered horror flicks to come out in the 1980's "Superstition" also had one of the most effective exorcism scene in it, conducted by Rev. Pike on Elonda Sharack, that was far more convincing and believable, with the dubbing perfectly matching Elonda's lips, then even in the the movie " The Exorist" itself!
The standard horror movie plot has to do with this creepy old house that was involved some 300 years ago in the execution-by drowning-of its owner accused witch and Satanist Elondra Sharack. Over the years anyone who lived in the Sharack house who wasn't a Sharack family member met a horrific death. Now with a new Reverend-Rev. Thompson-in town looking to disprove that the Sharack House is haunted by the Devil him or herself the horrors that were dormant there for so long came back! And came back with a vengeance.
Afer a few horrific deaths in and around the Sharack House were then brought back to olden times-the summer of 1692-to when the house got cursed by it's owner Elowdra Sharack who was declared a witch by the local priest Pike. After Elowdra's execution Pike and the townspeople who participated in it started to get second thoughts about what they did. That's because most of them ended up getting mysteriously killed with Pike's church being burned down moments after Elowdra's execution! As time went on anyone who lived in the Sharack House ended up meeting a terrifying death there with the exception of Elowdra's most recent descendant Elvira and her mute and brain damaged son Arien who were immune from her curse.
***SPOILERS*** Playing with fire Rev. Thompson had the Leahy family headed by Rev. John move into the Sharack House until he could find them a permanent place to stay in town. If Rev. Thompson didn't know it at the time he soon found out that by having the Leahys move into the cursed Sharack House he in fact condemned them to death!
One of the goriest and blood splattered horror flicks to come out in the 1980's "Superstition" also had one of the most effective exorcism scene in it, conducted by Rev. Pike on Elonda Sharack, that was far more convincing and believable, with the dubbing perfectly matching Elonda's lips, then even in the the movie " The Exorist" itself!