Spookies (1986)
3/10
What is insanity?
1 January 2019
Warning: Spoilers
I am a connoisseur of horrid movies for a reason, and this movie is a perfect example of such. Just knowing that some demented film editor believed wholly that it was possible to take unrelated film footage and create a viable film is reason enough to watch it. The editor was not taking his psychiatric medications when beset by this deluded belief.

The leather outfit that Duke is outfitted in looks like a nine dollar plastic workout suit designed just to make one sweat. The cat boy reminded me of Night Crawler from the X-Men. Someone in a review commented he was dressed like a pirate... WHAT? No, I do not believe pirates attired themselves as such and the reviewer lives in the land of Dairy Queen obviously. The deflation of the actor snared in the spider web gave me a great laugh out loud moment.

While I am a fan of special effects and can appreciate the effort utilized in creating so many of them, quite a number of them do not stand up over a period of time. I love seeing latex wrinkle horribly after application so you can definitely tell it is latex over the skin. Why the small aquatic creatures? They are just flopping around the house I surmise. Perhaps they were mutated sperm. I do love the last shot of the one as a reaction shot. Utilization of bright lights was a favorite in this film. I did love one zombie that jumps out at the woman attempting to run away. He is a sniper zombie. We know this because he has branches tied to his head and he is moving WAY faster then any other zombie. Now that is a LOW budget effect!

Acting sets a new limbo low for this facet of films. The person that was in charge of gathering this menagerie of talentless twits should be awarded in that aspect. How can a person hiring for a cast this large not even accidentally hire an actor with some ability? Just by the laws of average, one should have crept in!

The music is a monotonous and simplistic synthesizer creation. Nothing to write about here, just irritating.

I gave it a three due to the fact I was mesmerized at just how bad the movie is. If it is viewed closely one will find something to laugh at. Reviewers claim it is a dark comedy. Unfortunately, any attempts at a laugh fail stupendously. You WILL laugh at many aspects of the production though.

Unfortunately for the human race, 3/4 of film makers creating movies presently utilized this movie was a lesson on how to create a film.

Watch it for bad film laughs.
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