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Evilspeak
Bullied by classmates, a pudgy military-school student fights back by computer with the devil.
Release : | 1982 |
Rating : | 5.6 |
Studio : | Coronet Film, Leisure Investment Company, Moreno Films, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Art Direction, |
Cast : | Clint Howard R. G. Armstrong Joe Cortese Claude Earl Jones Haywood Nelson |
Genre : | Horror Science Fiction |
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Very Cool!!!
Simply A Masterpiece
Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.
Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.
An army cadet is bullied by four other students and some authority figures. One day he is sent to clean the old church basement as a punishment and, while there, he finds a secret room which contains an ancient Satanic Mass book. He discovers that passages from it can reincarnate a 16th century Satanist called Esteban. Using a computer, he revives Esteban and has bloody revenge on all those from the academy who have wronged him.Evilspeak was another early 80's horror movie that found itself onto the UK video nasty list. These were the films considered so offensive that they threatened the moral fabric of Britain back in the day. As a result it was banned and, naturally, has benefited ever since from the notoriety. Like most on that list it's difficult to understand what all the fuss was about with this one. If anything it proves that the censors back then were a spectacularly over-sensitive and humourless group of people. Because it's well-nigh impossible to see how they could have thought anyone could have taken this film seriously enough to then go out and commit acts of violence. This is a film about a possessed computer after all. It features a horde of man-eating pigs and has a climax where the hero floats through the air wielding a big sword. To my knowledge, none of these things has ever cropped up in the news in the years since Evilspeak was released.How is it as a film? It's fun, if nothing too impressive. It takes it's time to get to the horror stuff to be fair, although this does allow for more character development. The main guy Cling Howard (Ron's brother) is pretty decent and is a guy that's easy to root for. The film is essentially a nerd revenge flick and the bullies are an appalling bunch of cretins. So you are willing them to be dispensed with in as nasty a way as possible. And to be fair, the climax is pretty good with all manner of gory mayhem ensuing. Evilspeak is kind of a hybrid of Carrie with early 80's computer technology with demon pigs thrown in for good measure. It's one of those horror films from the time that is kind of crazed but pretty imaginative, so it's easy to get onside with this one.
Clint Howard plays a dorky cadet Stanley Coppersmith terrorized and abused by his teammates at the West Andover Military Academy.But all hell will break loose when Stanley finds a black mass book belonging to a 16th century Satanist named Esteban.The computer translates the passages from the book and Satan becomes its ghastly entity."Evilspeak" by Eric Weston is an odd horror movie which was once classified as a video nasty in UK.It plays like a male version of "Carrie" with plenty of gore including the scenes of a naked woman eaten alive in her bathtub by flesh-eating boars.Also heads are cut off and cloven in two,limbs removed,a heart is ripped still beating from the chest.There is a bit of nudity too.Very bloody climax is unbelievable and gruesome at the same time.8 cannibalistic boars out of 10.
Following in Carrie White's footsteps, meek military academy student Stanley Coopersmith (Clint Howard) wreaks bloody revenge on the bullies who are making his life a misery. After discovering an old Satanic tome in the basement of the academy's chapel, he uses a school computer to translate the text within. By reciting these words, and with the computer serving as a portal for demonic forces, Coopersmith is able to transform himself into a freaky, floating 'angel of death' and mercilessly hunt down his tormentors.One of the better titles to be condemned as a video nasty in the 80s, Evilspeak is actually fairly tame viewing for much of it's running time, giving Daily Mail readers and their ilk hardly anything to get het up about until the film almost reaches the hour mark; this time is spent getting the audience to fully empathise with poor old Stanley, who is taunted, beaten, and humiliated by his peers, and treated unfairly by the staff at the academy. After that, though, it's splatter time!Barring a brief decapitation in the pre-credits sequence, the film's first juicy moment arrives when Coopersmith's computer twists the head of a drunken would-be rapist Sarge (R.G. Armstrong) until it is facing backwards; soon after that, there's an even gorier scene in which tarty secretary Miss Friedemeyer (Lynn Hancock) is gored to death by pigs whilst taking a shower (we even get a shot of the hungry hogs yanking out her intestines).Director Eric Weston briefly takes time out from the nastiness for a delightfully tacky beauty pageant in which all of the contestants are voluptuous teenagers in teeny bikinis (Suzy is sweet sixteen and wants to be a body stocking model, informs the academy's lecherous coach), before giving Coopersmith the final impetus to unleash hell on his tormentors: his pet dog is killed by head bully Bubba!Boiling with rage, Stanley gets the human blood he requires to complete his ritual (by impaling one of his teachers on a chandelier), traps his wicked classmates in the academy's chapel, and proceeds to teach them all a lesson by hacking at them with a huge sword. Skulls are crushed, heads are lopped off, blood gushes freely, and the pigs make another appearance to help Stanley deal with any stragglers.With its efficient direction from Weston, chilling Omen-style soundtrack, over-the-top splatter, gratuitous teenage eye-candy, bloody shower scene, fiery climax, and enthusiastic performances from all involved, Evilspeak is a solid piece of trashy 80s horror fun.7.5 out of 10, rounded up to 8 for IMDb.
Evilspeak is a 1981 horror film which was classed as a "Video Nasty" here in the UK, meaning it was originally banned from release. Is it such a bad thing that the main reason this film came to my attention and sought it out was because of that fact? The film starts with a brief introduction set sometime during the Spanish inquisition, as satanist Esteban and his followers are banished from the land. The scene then changes to present day 1981 America, at West Andover Military Academy and we're thrust into the middle of a football game about to be lost mainly due to Stanley Coopersmith's errors.The coach talks to the principle about dropping Stanley from the team to improve results, but is denied so decides to take things into his own hands... or should I say the hands of four jocks on the football team who are also fed up with Coopersmith's mistakes. He strongly hints to them that if Stanley were to have some kind of "Accident" then he would be unable to play anymore, solving both their problems. The four take up the coach on his proposal, and proceed to make Stanley's life then on a living hell.After turning up to class late one too many times, Stanley is assigned to to clear up the Academy's chapel as punishment. There he meets "Sarge", an old, depressed, quick tempered drunk who lives in the chapel to maintain it. As Stanley explores the basement of the chapel he comes across an undiscovered room full of creepy looking statues, ancient books with pictures of devils and the like. One book somehow grabs his attention, the one that Esteban held at the start of the film which you'd know if you've been paying attention up to this point, he grabs it and quickly gets the hell out of there after being spooked.While all this is happening, the reverend is explaining to a minor character along with the audience that the whole academy is built on the land Esteban presided hundreds of years ago. Stanley then delves into the book, using the academy's computers to translate the Latin text. The rest of the film shows Stanley go through life at the academy, while leading a sort of double life as he comes closer to completing the ritual. The chapel basement becomes a sort of safe place for him, no matter how dark and eerie it looks to the viewer.As a character, Stanley gains your sympathy and respect as you see what he has to put up with from the other characters throughout the film. While the other teens are there for going off the rails or misbehaving, we find out Stanley is there as an orphan as his parents died in an accident when he was younger. In other words, Stanley has more depth as a character than the entire cast of "Friday The 13th" put together. The characters in 'Evilspeak' are there for more than just to be killed in as many ways as possible like your typical slasher, you connect to them on an emotional level more.When you see Stanley's puppy get stabbed by Bubba, the main bully and antagonist, you really feel disgust and resentment towards him. ...Yes, a puppy does get killed in this film, although it isn't shown directly of course. Is it unnecessary violence? Maybe, but this film is called 'Evilspeak', not 'Cute puppy dogs and rainbows' and the scene does fit in with the theme of the film.Like in 'The Omen', animals are used for some horror scenes as they become possessed by the evil force Stanley is tapping into. To be more specific, the swine at the academy's farm, who take particular objection to Esteban's book being tampered with when it comes into the hands of the secretary. This climaxes in a scene where a few of the demon pigs burst uninvited into the secretary's bathroom, while she's still in a towel fresh from the shower in what might be a small nod to 'Psycho'. They then happily rip her apart in the bathtub. The pigs, for the three parts of the film they star in are mostly convincing, especially at the end as they seem quite aggressive and hungry for flesh.The music is good as a whole, as it sets the mood and atmosphere pretty well. It's not the best score I've heard in a horror film but it did its job.Apart from a decapitation at the start, 'Evilspeak' really hadn't been too bad of a film in terms of body count and gore. But don't be fooled, the whole film builds to a spectacular finish of blood at the end: think 'Carrie', but with a large sword. Overall, although it was ultimately predictable, I enjoyed 'Evilspeak' for the most part. As I'm quite a big fan of horror films, most of the so called "horror films" released these days are so cliché and contrived they depress me more than anything else. So although 'Evilspeak'wasn't about a haunted house, or someone getting killed every five minutes, I'd happily say it was a successful horror film. It had characters you could connect with, villains you start to hate, suspenseful moments, gore and good acting all round.6/10