Product Details

• Actors: Caryl Matrisciana
• Format: Color, NTSC, SECAM
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Loyal
• VHS Release Date: January 8, 2002
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 1.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 1929125348
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #199,780 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Tim LaHaye, best selling author

"Must viewing for those concerned about the growing interest of Witchcraft."

Product Description

Some Christians have concluded that the Harry Potter products are harmless because they are fun. Yet God calls those who do witchcraft an abomination. A prominent British teacher's union has also publicly warned that the Harry Potter products are dangerous, as they can lead children into the occult. Read more about the dangers of these purportedly harmless products.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars How dare they?, October 11, 2008

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Katana Geldar (Tasmania, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Harry Potter: Witchcraft Repackaged [VHS] (VHS Tape)

How dare people think for themselves?
How dare books these days encourage people to pursue their own spirituality without being indoctrinated?
How dare people become responsible for their own morality and actions without blaming some exterior supernatural force?

One of the problems I have with the Christian right these days is they pretty much tell people to stop thinking, to surrender their doubts and just do what they're told. And that is pretty much what this documentary is asking people to do. And given that, it would have already been a bad film (I refuse to label this fictional work a documentary) if it didn't have as many holes in it that I could poke a besom through.

As usual, fundamentalists have made a point of view based on flawed logic and total inaccuracy. Man of the things in this film are simply untrue, even to the extent of when they are talking about the swasktika, which any Nazi historian will tell you was based on an Busdhist symbol and NOT lightning.

But the worst, by far, has to be that idiot of a woman who calls herself an expert on world religions, Caryl Matrisciana. Has she even READ the books? Does she even know ANYHTING about them or about witchcraft for that matter? She claims to have been part of the new age movement but she is little more than what we call a "whitelighter", people who dabble just out of their own ego in order to get what they want.
Don't waste your time on this, rather than a zero I wanted to rate this in negative numbers.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Liars, Damned Liars, and Jeremiah Films, September 15, 2007

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David K. M. Klaus "David K. M. Klaus" (St. Louis, Mo., U.S.A.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Harry Potter: Witchcraft Repackaged [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is another of those "I wish I could give zero or a negative number of stars" items.


Jeremiah Films is a noted creator and distributor of what only can be described as books and videos of religious bigotry. This work, like others they have produced, is a mish-mash of ignorance-based mistakes, carefully-constructed half-truths, and outright lies, lies which the producers continue to spread even when the truth is brought to their direct attention.


To put it bluntly, this is worthless trash, the modern equivalent of World War II Nazi propaganda about Jews.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Harry Potter:Witchcraft Reduced,Recycled, January 10, 2008

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Amaranth "music fan" (Northern California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Harry Potter: Witchcraft Repackaged [VHS] (VHS Tape)

"Harry Potter: Witchcraft Repackaged" is the most famous production of Jeremiah Films- the Golan/Globus of Christian propaganda. It's unintentionally hilarious, and is an artifact of the now-defunct Harry Potter controversy.

Caryl Matrisciana,a self-styled expert on cults, gives some wildly inaccurate&just plain funny "observations" on JK Rowling's bestselling series.
1)She claims that the self-sacrificing Lily Potter represents the Goddess, leading children away from Christ crucified to worship of the feminine divine.
2)She breaks Godwin's Law when discussing Harry Potter's lightning bolt scar.
3)Shape-changing is evil for some reason. Cinderella should be banned,with that reasoning.
4)The frosting on the cake,the "broomsticks&witches' hats as phallic symbols." Caryl seems to be enjoying herself too much with this one-a bit too excited. She waxes rhapsodic.

There are some bonus corkers as well-
A debate on MSNBC with a moronic Southern man. He claims that Voldemort's drinking of unicorn blood will somehow lead kids astray. When he's caught,he invokes the Columbine tragedy.
Sally,the Witch Queen of Kent-a loopy,ditzy,middle-aged lady.

"Harry Potter:Witchcraft Repackaged" doesn't show both sides,let alone depict JK Rowling's series accurately.I know some local churches that showed this movie whenever the latest Harry Potter book was released. They were embarrassed about it&the pastors didn't want to talk. It's not surprising why. At best,this "documentary" preaches to the choir,and at worst,it probably whets kids' appetites for the series,making it into delicious forbidden fruit.