Witch Hunt is a 1994 HBO fantasy detective television film directed by Paul Schrader and starring Dennis Hopper,[1] Penelope Ann Miller and Eric Bogosian.

[3] In 1953,[a] Senator Larson Crockett has led a campaign that managed to make the majority of the country afraid of magic and even outlaw its use.

In Los Angeles, private investigator H. Philip Lovecraft is hired by film star Kim Hudson to dig up dirt on her husband, producer N.J. Gotlieb.

In secret, Hypolita Kropotkin (Lovecraft's landlady) works for Gotlieb's film studio as a witch, transporting famous writers from history to the present to improve scripts.

Lovecraft returns alone to the Los Feliz mansion, which turns out to be a whorehouse where prostitutes use magic to transform into whatever each client wants.

Lovecraft confesses he used magic precisely once: he hid a bottle on a suspect's boat, and later retrieved it and "poured" out a conversation that enabled him to close his case.

However, his target - Macha - believed the evidence was provided by a woman who had been present and killed her to eliminate her as a witness.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Lovecraft kicks the fallen Macha off a balcony into the sea, where he drowns.

Coming to terms with not becoming a superstar, Kim stops using magic to alter her appearance and decides to leave Hollywood.