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Was it just me or was this movie extremely slow moving.
It's not till right at the end when you actually get see any decent gore!
Yeah, I kinda got suckered in by this. After awhile I found myself fast forwarding to the gorey parts and I don't usually do things like that. But the movie was so murky and slowing moving and I heard really good things about it.
Most low budget movies of that time are slow moving. At least the pigsin the tub scene came about half way through. The ending was kinda Carrie-ish.
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Ah the good old days when you didn't have to have wall-to-wall porno gore to make an impression...
That's okay though, Psycho and Halloween get the same flack.
It's funny though, when Evilspeak came out, it was considered pretty gory for it's time and I don't recall anyone complaining about the pacing back then! Oh well, generation gap maybe.
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Ah, poor Evilspeak - never gets any respect. But that's okay - it's not for everyone. I'm just glad I have a copy before someone decides it's too formulaic, directed poorly with a lousy premise and pulls it from circulation.
Although maybe I should wish for that - then my copy would be worth more than the bargain bin I rescued it from!
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"Screw respectability."
Absolutely! Eh, my days of caring whether someone else likes, approves, or cares anything about a movie I like are long gone. Actually I think it's really funny to see people get worked up about ragging on or defending a movie, especially one like Evilspeak! I know that's kind of what message boards are for, but still...ragging on Evilspeak for plausability is a little like ragging on Tron or Schindler's List (just kidding.)
But I have to say, Evilspeak is a movie I saw at a friend's house on cable when I was like 12 and now I watch it for nostalgia. We loved it at the time because we were too stupid to realize how dumb the premise was (plus, it was like 1982 - EVERYONE was computer ignorant back then!) We just thought the secretary lady was hot and the revenge violence in the church was cool.
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Yeah, I certainly miss the mom and pop video stores from the early 80's. They sure don't carry classics like Microwave Massacre at my local blockbuster! But blockbuster has always been weird - the one by my house is pretty lousy when it comes to horror, but has every asian film known to man, which is great but inconsistent! I don't know, they're probably trying to be less censorial because of competition from netflix.
Now if only Netflix would increase their catalog to include foreign B-movies from the 60's I'd be in paradise!
Yeah, I miss when I was 12 and plowed through the horror sections of independent video stores eventually put out of business by Blockbuster & Hollywood Video and their homogenized, censorial selection.
Well, I twas around the early 2000s that Blockbusters basically got rid of every and any VHS movie they've EVER had in stock(I worked there around that time. They also got rid of all the old NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, Gameboy games, as well as PS1, N64 and Dreamcast games). When I started to work at Blockbuster, I was surprised at the few good b-movies they actually had, but only in VHS. But by the end of my run there, all those were gone, and they basically became SOLELY a DVD rental store.
But yeah, I love a lot of the old video rental stores, the mom and pop stores. They usually stock the best hard to find horror movies from the 60-80s.
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I agree, and if it weren't for the cool occult props, I'd might have given up on it. But the film did deliver, and then some! (8 out of 10)
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Yeah, I thought the same. Instead of a big massacre finale, he could have spread some of the kills out.
shareIt's a revenge flick. So the movie sets up his motivation, showing how he's treated and how much he has to take, until the end when he finally gets his revenge.
It's similar to many revenge flicks, especially Carrie, and the two movies are very comparable.
Evilspeak adds in some tension and horror with the occult stuff with the computer, the pig attack, Cooperdick getting the eucharist scene, the big prank on him, and so on, all of which build to the climax.
It's pretty basic horror: build the tension, don't allow any release until the end, then have a big blow-out ending. This makes the violence and gore at the end more powerful since it's had all movie to build to it.
It's not done much nowadays. People get bored and want kills or jump scares every 15 minutes which relieve the tension and can make a movie fun, but not tense. Personally I prefer a movie like Evilspeak.
It's funny, because any other time if someone takes 90% of their story to convey a single character's extremely simple motivation to the audience, they'd call that incredibly shoddy writing.
Of course people get bored with a movie like this. It's almost entirely empty filler. Sets up his motivation? It spends almost the entire movie repeating the same motivation that was made perfectly clear within the first 15 minutes over and over again. It's just the same group of characters picking on him over and over again in completely unmemorable ways with almost no real change or progress in the characters or plot. There are no surprises. You know exactly where it's going and it never strays from that cliched path. Hell, if you've seen the trailer you have basically already seen every key scene in this. Everything else is just redundant time-killing and distraction from a horribly low budget.
Interesting that you should mention Carrie too, because that's a good example of how exactly what you're talking about actually works when a competent writer and director are involved. Evilspeak is an embarrassment in comparison.
It's a revenge flick. So the movie sets up his motivation, showing how he's treated and how much he has to take, until the end when he finally gets his revenge.
It's similar to many revenge flicks, especially Carrie, and the two movies are very comparable.
Evilspeak adds in some tension and horror with the occult stuff with the computer, the pig attack, Cooperdick getting the eucharist scene, the big prank on him, and so on, all of which build to the climax.
It's pretty basic horror: build the tension, don't allow any release until the end, then have a big blow-out ending. This makes the violence and gore at the end more powerful since it's had all movie to build to it.
It's not done much nowadays. People get bored and want kills or jump scares every 15 minutes which relieve the tension and can make a movie fun, but not tense. Personally I prefer a movie like Evilspeak.