GUILTY VIEWING PLEASURES
Evilspeak (1981)
Info:
- Release Date: February 26, 1981
- Creators: Eric Weston (director), Joseph Garofalo (writer)
- Genre: Demonic Computers
- Rating: ★★★☆☆
Plot:
- Mess-of-a-cadet Coopersmith finds a satanic book walled in the basement of the local military chapel. After he uses the school's Apple II computer to translate the Latin runes, the computer becomes possessed with the evil spirit of Esteban, a black mass priest.
Notes:
- Boys locker room scene, complete with snapping towels
- Corporal punishment and a hot and bothered Miss Friedemeyer
- 1980's roller-skating rinks!
- That's... that's not how women get undressed
- Pigs really doesn't like people prying pentagrams off Satanic books
- Is "Miss Heavy Artillery" a good idea at an all-boys military academy?
- The mean cadets, holding down and stripping Coopersmith of his pants
- Why does everyone want to kill an orphan boy's puppy?!?
- Hauptman being improbably impaled on a spiked ceiling wheel
- Pigs and Coopersmith running amuck in the church, killing all the cadets
- "We-eee-lcome to the kingdom of evil"
- "Coopersmith, what the devil do you think you're doing?"
Cast:
- Clint Howard as Coopersmith
- Don Stark as Bubba
- Joseph Cortese as Reverend
- Lynn Hancock as Miss Friedemeyer
- Haywood Nelson as Kowalski
- Charles Tyner as Kincaid
- R.G. Armstrong as Sarge
- Hamilton Camp as Hauptman
- Richard Moll as Esteban
- Claude Earl Jones as Coach
