Witch Hunt (1994 film)

Witch Hunt

Genre	Crime Fantasy Mystery
Written by	Joseph Dougherty
Directed by	Paul Schrader
Starring	Dennis Hopper Penelope Ann Miller Eric Bogosian Debi Mazar
Music by	Angelo Badalamenti
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
Production
Executive producer(s)	Joseph Dougherty (co-executive producer)
Producer(s)	Gale Anne Hurd Michael R. Joyce David Gale (co-producer) Betsy Beers (co-producer)
Cinematography	Jean-Yves Escoffier
Editor(s)	Kristina Boden
Running time	100 min.
Production company(s)	HBO Pacific Western
Distributor	HBO
Release
Original network	HBO
Original release	December 10, 1994 (1994-12-10)

Witch Hunt (1994) is a horror, detective HBO film starring Dennis Hopper^[1] and Eric Bogosian,^[2] directed by Paul Schrader and written by Joseph Dougherty.^[3] The original music score was composed by Angelo Badalamenti.^[3]

Plot

Hopper stars as 1950s hardboiled private detective H. Phillip Lovecraft, in a fictional universe where magic is real, monsters and mythical beasts stalk the back alleys, zombies are used as cheap labor, and everyone—except Lovecraft—uses magic every day. Yet, cars, telephones and other modern technology also exist in this world.

Witch Hunt takes place in the 1950s during the red scare, in which magic is substituted for communism.

It is a sequel to the HBO-produced film Cast a Deadly Spell. Hopper plays Lovecraft in place of Fred Ward. Additionally, many characters have different back-stories than in Cast a Deadly Spell. For example, Lovecraft refuses to use magic in Cast a Deadly Spell on principle, but in Witch Hunt he refuses because of a bad experience he has had.

Cast

Dennis Hopper - Harry Phillip Lovecraft
Penelope Ann Miller - Kim Hudson
Eric Bogosian - Senator Larson Crockett
Sheryl Lee Ralph - Hypolita Laveau Kropotkin
Julian Sands - Finn Macha
Valerie Mahaffey - Trudy
John Epperson - Vivian Dart (as Lypsinka)
Debi Mazar - The Manicurist
Alan Rosenberg - N.J. Gottlieb

References

External links

Witch Hunt at the Internet Movie Database
Witch Hunt at AllMovie

Media based or influenced on H. P. Lovecraft works

Films	The Haunted Palace (1963) Die, Monster, Die! (1965) The Shuttered Room (1967) The Dunwich Horror (1970) Re-Animator (1985) From Beyond (1986) The Curse (1987) The Unnamable (1988) Dark Heritage (1989) Bride of Re-Animator (1990) Cast a Deadly Spell (1991) The Resurrected (1992) The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter (1993) In the Mouth of Madness (1994) Necronomicon (1994) The Lurking Fear (1994) Witch Hunt (1994) Castle Freak (1995) Bleeders (1997) Out of Mind: The Stories of H. P. Lovecraft (1998) Cool Air (1999) Cthulhu (2000) Dagon (2001) Beyond Re-Animator (2003) The Call of Cthulhu (2005) H. P. Lovecraft's Dreams in the Witch-House (2005) Cthulhu (2007) The Tomb (2007) Chill (2007) In Search of Lovecraft (2008) The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu (2009) The Whisperer in Darkness (2011) Innsmouth (2011) Call Girl of Cthulhu (2014)

Role-playing games	Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game) (1981) Cthulhu Live (1997) Delta Green (1997) Trail of Cthulhu (2008) CthulhuTech (2008)

Card games	Mythos (1996) Cthulhu 500 (2004) Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game (2004) Elder Sign (2011) Arkham Horror: The Card Game (2016)

Board games	Arkham Horror (1987, 2005) Mansions of Madness (2011) Eldritch Horror (2013)

Video games	Alone in the Dark (1992) Shadow of the Comet (1993) Necronomicon (1994) Alone in the Dark 3 (1995) Prisoner of Ice (1995) Innsmouth no Yakata (1995) Necronomicon: The Dawning of Darkness (2001) Eternal Darkness (2002) Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth (2005) Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2006) Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land (2012) Eldritch (2013) Bloodborne (2015) Darkest Dungeon (2016)

Other	Neil Gaiman's Only the End of the World Again (2000) Alan Moore's The Courtyard (2003) Unspeakable Vault (of Doom) (2003–present) Alan Moore's Yuggoth Cultures and Other Growths (2003) Move Under Ground (2004) Dark Adventure Radio Theatre (2006–2015) Demonbane (2006) Haiyore! Nyaruko-san (2009–2014) Neonomicon (2010) Re-Animator: The Musical (2011) Providence (2015-2016)

See also: Cthulhu Mythos in popular culture

Paul Schrader filmography

Writer	The Yakuza (1974) Taxi Driver (1976) Obsession (1976) Rolling Thunder (1977) Blue Collar (1978) Hardcore (1979) Old Boyfriends (1979) American Gigolo (1980) Raging Bull (1980) Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) The Mosquito Coast (1986) Light of Day (1987) The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) Light Sleeper (1992) City Hall (1996) Touch (1997) Affliction (1997) Forever Mine (1999) Bringing Out the Dead (1999) The Walker (2007) Dying of the Light (2014)

Director	Blue Collar (1978) Hardcore (1979) American Gigolo (1980) Cat People (1982) Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) Light of Day (1987) Patty Hearst (1988) The Comfort of Strangers (1990) Light Sleeper (1992) Witch Hunt (1994) Touch (1997) Affliction (1997) Forever Mine (1999) Auto Focus (2002) Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005) The Walker (2007) Adam Resurrected (2008) The Canyons (2013) Dying of the Light (2014) Dog Eat Dog (2016)

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