Also released as
- Messe noire
- Evilspeak - Der Teufelsschrei
- Evilspeak - Der Teufels-Schrei
- Evilspeaks
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Evilspeak
Evilspeak is a 1981 American possession film directed by Eric Weston. It is one of the 72 films on the Director of Public Prosecutions' video nasties list, and it was successfully prosecuted for obscenity.
Clint Howard, a military academy, a computer and a lot of pigs. Better than it has any right to be.
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Clint Howard, a military academy, an Apple II and a great many pigs.
Coopersmith is bullied by everybody at a Californian military school. In the chapel basement he finds the papers of a sixteenth-century Spanish satanist and starts translating them on the computer, which eventually summons what he has asked for.
The revenge finale is the reason it was listed: a chapel, a levitating boy with a sword, and a large number of animals. It is far more elaborate than the budget suggests.
Howard is the film. He plays the humiliation with no self-pity, which makes the last reel land as release rather than as spectacle.
Successfully prosecuted. Cut on its 1987 UK video release and passed 18 uncut in 2004. The pig footage is real abattoir material.
Banned, seized, prosecuted
DPP 72 · successfully prosecuted
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Checked 9 Aug 2026
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