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976-EVIL - Robert Englund

This is the directorial debut of master actor (and horror legend) Robert Englund.  High school nerd Hoax Wilmoth is stuck in a backwater burgh trying to get through a life full of leather clad bullies and his religious zealot, cat-collecting mother.  His cousin Spike is living a normal life across the side yard in a separate dwelling and Hoax wants nothing more than to be like him.  Unknown to Hoax his cousin Spike has his own problems.  He keeps losing at poker with his thug friends and he's always fighting with himself over doing the right thing.  That fight is getting worse now that he is calling up a phone service to get his "Horrorscope".  The recorded voice on other end keeps telling him to do things he knows he shouldn't and it gets angry when he doesn't.  Then when Hoax gets a hold of the number the real terror begins.

976-EVIL is your typical 80's horror movie with a strong sense of B-movie to it.  Despite typically bad reviews everywhere else I have to say that this is a good movie.  The story is a little over the top in places, starts off quite heavy handed, and will probably never be a legendary film (like say The Exorcist).  However this does not discount it from being good.  The acting is better than a lot of other movies, the characters have some depth to them even the cliche ones.  In fact the star Stephen Geoffreys (Fright Night) does a really excellent job of his part as it grows and changes during the film.  The special effects are good; Kevin Yahger's production company did them after all.  The direction is straightforward and the attention to detail is good.  The strongest downside if one wants to look at it as such is the desire the film seems to have to homage the film Carrie.  This homage comes across as a pale comparison but I don't believe it is meant to be the focus of the film anyway.  All in all a solid film.

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