Directed by Paul Schrader
Dennis Hopper stars as a private eye with a loaded name, H. Phillip Lovecraft, in director Paul Schrader’s tongue-in-cheek neo-noir made for HBO. In an alternate Los Angeles circa 1950 where witchcraft is commonplace, Hopper’s magic-wary gumshoe is on a case that could blow the whole town sky high. A multi-barbed satire of Hollywood and Cold War paranoia (Eric Bogosian plays a conservative senator with a plot to rid the world of magic), Witch Hunt finds Schrader having a bit fun.
HBO Films. Producer: Gale Ann Hurd, Michael R. Joyce. Screenwriter: Joseph Dougherty. Cinematographer: Jean Yves Escoffier. Editor: Kristina Boden. Cast: Dennis Hopper, Penelope Ann Miller, Eric Bogosian, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Julian Sands.
35mm, color, 100 min.
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