A horror movie in production resurrects a witch called Levana, who is the main evil character in the movie. Levana tries to take over our world so that evil can be spread everywhere, but the only one in her way is Anne, who is to play Levana in the movie. Now, the battle of good and evil begins.
It starts off pretty good with a great atmosphere and a fun concept. We follow a director who got inspired by Argento's Suspiria and who has decided to make a movie about the third witch. What he doesn't know is that this witch isn't too happy about that and manages to make the idea for the movie reality (a little confusing, I know). The first encounter with the witch, where she suddenly jumps out/through a mirror with rock music playing in the background, is absolutely great. Unfortunately it starts to go downhill after that. The movie is as confusing and incoherent as can be. Literally nothing makes any sense. Still, even though by this time I had no idea what I was watching, it manages to be somewhat entertaining. The atmosphere is still great and every now and then there's a little gore. It's funny that even after all those years director Luigi Cozzi hadn't forgotten about his exploding stomach effect he used in Contamination (1980), and uses it in this movie as well. The soundtrack is a pretty big joy to the ear. There's the rock music, the main Suspiria theme and another score that sounds an awful lot like Ennio Morricone's work in The Thing (1982).
Incoherent, strange and not really good. That about sums up this movie. Still, mainly due to the great atmosphere, it's a pretty entertaining movie. It's not great by any means, but I don't regret watching it. Hell, the ever so beautiful Florence Guérin is reason enough to watch this one.
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