EVILSPEAK Basically, a goofy-ass, gender-flipped Carrie
This is basically Carrie, with genders reversed. Clint Howard plays Coopersmith, a dweeby orphan at an exclusive military school who's constantly tormented by his teachers and fellow students. So, he elects to enact his revenge by using the school computer to help him summon up the devil. However, since he's using what appears to be a VIC 20, the best he can manage is Richard Moll and a pack (herd? flock?) of vicious pigs. Needless to say, havoc ensues.
This movie may be dumb and silly and ridiculous, but it's pretty fun, and never really that boring. Everybody chews as much scenery as they can get their teeth into, most notably one of the teachers, who's dressed in a black military uniform and speaks so harshly with his German accent, you expect him to start goose-stepping around the school!
The film suffers from some really lousy chopping - a lot of stuff is snipped out, presumably at the behest of the MPAA (head-splittings, heart-rippings, etc are all cutaway from very awkwardly). It features some computer graphics which similarly look like they were made on, at best, a Commodore 64. And the film closes out with a written "epilogue", I guess (there's gotta be a word for this), which is printed in such a silly-looking font that it's damn near impossible to read, and I had to rewind it thrice to readthe whole thing.
It's written by a guy named Joseph Garofalo. There can't be that many Garofalo's in the world - I've gotta wonder if he's related to my future bride. Overall, a good, dumb, fun time-passer. I wouldn't in a million years pretend it was scary or affecting. Maybe I've just got a soft spot for what's gotta be the only film in history to feature somebody getting mauled to death by pigs in a bathtub. |
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