- Director
- Eric Weston
- Year
- 1981
- Country
- USA
- Runtime
- 89 min
Also released as
- Messe noire
- Evilspeak - Der Teufelsschrei
- Evilspeak - Der Teufels-Schrei
- Evilspeaks
Filed under
Evilspeak
Clint Howard, a military academy, a computer and a lot of pigs. Better than it has any right to be.
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. Passed with cuts in 2004 and uncut later. The pig footage is real abattoir material.
Banned, seized, prosecuted
DPP 72 · successfully prosecuted
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