Year: 1986
Duration: 01:21:00
Directed by: Genie Joseph, Thomas Doran
Actors: Felix Ward, Maria Pechukas, Dan Scott
Language: English
Country: USA
Also known as: Goblin, Duchy,
Description of Spookies movie: A fun horror movie that combines elements from Evil Dead, Night of the Demons and Phantasm. Taking a wrong turn, travelers find themselves trapped in a mysterious house. One horror after another threatens them as the sorcerer who lives within needs sacrifices to give eternal life to his beautiful bride.
Review: The film ” Spookies” is a representative of the horror classic , combining a variety of stylistic genre under the general concept of “a group of people come in the house … damn .” When his little timing and abundance of events and scenes involved in the picture, it looks a bit messy , preventing the action unfolds to reveal nature of the characters . On the other hand , the film pleases wonderful makeup and its variety of ways to scare .
Here we show for the crowd of zombies and vampires , and villain – sorcerer , and one of the guests in an eerie structure of people almost instantly turn into creepy witch and a puppet in the hands of the owner cursed abode. The rest of the face with a lot of monsters and creatures , including a giant spider monsters of mud, desiccated corpse and many others. In the picture there are all so loved by fans of horror horror techniques , ranging from sharp and unexpected jumping down to atmospheric stresses and experiences for some of the characters .
Acting game can be divided into two types. All the villains and monsters turned amazing. In addition to elegant makeup, playing villains really believable and realistic. And here at the main characters, in the tradition of horror , eternal problems with logic, awkward dialogue, and not particularly expressive behavior. But this is not so much spoil the tape itself as their acting. If witches and vampires played fine, ordinary people came out not too memorable, and certainly not disclosed because of the duration of the film. Thus one played well , others not so.
The film was shot by three directors , which explains the diversity of genre references . Everyone , apparently , was his eyes and his vision of horror , resulting merged into a beautiful kaleidoscope of monsters. Filmed pretty high quality and interesting , well chosen angles, well set the scene , and not all of the dialogue here is absurd and ridiculous , as in many other films of similar subjects . The picture is very reminiscent of the movie ” Exorcist ” ( aka ” The Tempter “) , but there is much less of humor , which is undoubtedly a plus of this film . Have little similarity with the ” Evil Dead ” , but this tape again, more serious and thankfully devoid treshovosti and delirium. Here we see the real horror is absorbed and creates the best traditions of many genres , setting an example for further pictures. Perfect representative of horror 80s , one might even say classic and brilliant example.
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I was a teenager when this first came out. A friend had seen it and told me at school that it was just a rip off of Ghoulies. I trusted his judgement, and never wanted to see it. After all these years, I wish I had seen it and judged for myself…because I missed one hell of a movie. Nothing like Ghoulies at all. The Ghoulies films were classic in themselves, but Spookies is in a class all it’s own. It was like getting stuck in a lethal Halloween Haunted House attraction. A cat monster, Grim Reaper, cackling old witch ghost (whose puppeteer hands can be seen in the shot), and a really bitchin’ Chinese spider chick, zombies out the ass, it just keeps going! Cool story, great (yet campy) special effects, funny bits, a real thrill ride. No boobies tho. I guess you can’t have it all. But this comes close. I try not to compare any one movie to anything else I have seen, just buckle up and go for the ride. Some rides are boring, and I wanna fall asleep, but others (like this one) give me some terrible thrills.
My dvd want list just got longer.
If you are a fan of B movie monster flicks, do yourself a favor and watch this.
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My son Max did a really decent in-depth history of the film “Spookies” and the people involved with it —
http://thedissolve.com/features/oral-history/788-the-strange-saga-of-spookies/
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Wow, Mister Ron, that was a very well written history lesson about a great monster film. Kudos to your son, Max. I wish all of my favorite movies had such coverage.