Forever Evil (1987)

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Blistering performances.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Three couples head to a cabin for the weekend to bid the place farewell before Marc (Red Mitchell) sells it. What they don't know is that a pulsing stellar Quasar is happening when they get there and it unleashes some monsters that kill everyone except Marc. Still with me? Marc then teams up with Reggie (Tracey Huffman), a female survivor of a similar incident, and Leo (Charles Trotter), a cop who has seen this before, to figure out what is going on. Together, the trio finds out that an immortal being on Earth has been planning these attacks for over a century in an effort to bring back evil god Yog Kothag (someone has been reading Lovecraft) to end humanity as we know it. This Texas-produced flick falls into the same category for me as late 80s flicks like THE VIDEO DEAD, DEMON WIND, THE DEAD PIT and DEMONWARP. It might be a bit budget starved, but you can appreciate the amount of effort and imagination that went into making it. The first time I saw this back in 1990 or so, I was surprised how they pulled a PSYCHO on me and offed everyone about 20 minutes in and took it from there. Mitchell, looking like a cross between Jack Black and Jason Alexander, is an interesting choice for a lead and he is alright I guess. If you are looking for a few laughs, see the scene where Reggie declares her love to him. While the flick is overlong at 107 minutes, it has enough weirdness (demon babies, random zombies, a cute looking demon dog) for me to recommend seeing it at least once.

Freeman Williams and cast were all part of the Texas Renaissance Festival many years ago (I was a wench), and Freeman told me late one night after too much mead about his desire to film this movie - a remake, no less, of another really cheesy horror film - and... oh, boy!I loved it! But then... I know the inside jokes... and I just about wet my pants laughing each time another schlock death occurred...This is a popcorn film, folks, don't take it seriously, take it for what it was written for - Freeman wanted it to appear on USA latenight with - gad, what was her name, the vampy looking woman with the wild black wig? Elvira? And that's really where it belonged! This was great!

I once though that there was nothing worse in a film than bad acting. This film convinces me that bad special effects are worse than bad acting any day. I recently had the pleasure of working with Jim Eikner, the guy who did the SFX in this movie. He was to be the SFX artist, and I was to be the "straight" makeup artist. Basically, he was 2 or more hours late to set every day, and he never had any of the guts or head wounds prepared ahead of time. Everything in his "kit" could have been bought at any cheesy Halloween shop and most of his supplies were from 1989. Long story short: he did a crap job and held up the whole production b/c it took him ages to produce sub-standard stuff then halfway through the filming, once the production company cut him his check, he never showed up for work again. I ended up getting paid 1/3 of what Eikner got paid for me to do his job. If the director would have watched this film and saw the worst in bad special effects, he would never have hired that no-talent, scam-artist hack.

This movie has horrible acting, but is so much fun to watch. The monster scenes where it is watching the characters from a spot where it should obviously be seen, the devil dog that serves absolutely no purpose to plot development, and the abandoned highway where the guy gets hit by a truck that he obviously should have heard coming are just a few of the fun and inane things to watch for. I would highly suggest this movie to anyone who wants a good movie to laugh and drink to.