Tuesday, 11 February 2025

768 976-Evil ( 1989)

 This  was  Robert "Freddie Krueger" Englund's first  outing  as  a  director and  it's a  curate's egg of a film. He  manages  to  give  the  film  that   distinct  Elm  St  look but fails  to  make sense  of  the  scripy. One  scene  of  a  woman  getting  killed  outside  a  shop  seems  to  have  been placed  completely  at  random.  Stephen Geoffreys plays Hoax, the oldest  school kid since  Rizzo in Grease, a  bullied outsider  who plots revenge against his tormentors with the help of a demon on the end of a phone line. That's simple enough  but the presence of a  cool cousin, Spike, who's big enough to protect him and uses  the line first, a  religious sadist mother , a guy who doesn't know whether he's a cop or a journalist and a teacher's sudden elevation to final girl status make it horribly confused.

Lezlie Deane ( as  Suzie )

Sex : Suzie has sex with  Spike

Death : Bitten by poisonous spiders 


Lezlie  was born in Texas. This  was  her  first film  after a  string of TV appearances. She  went on to appear with Englund in a couple of Elm St projects before putting her acting career on hold to join lesbin pop group Fem2fem in 1993. Wikipedia  currently makes wholly  fictitious claims about UK success for the group. She briefly returned to acting in 1997 then became captain and coach of  a  roller derby team.

Maria Rubell ( as Angela )

Sex : No

Death : Survives


This  was  the  first  film for  Maria  whose brief  acting career was  coming to an end.

Wendy J Cooke (as Gang girl )

Sex :   She has to do a strip tease for the gang

Death :  Survives ( in the absence of evidence to the contrary)


Wendy was a bit part  actress active  in film and  TV  for  ten years from 1995. Her biggest achievement was a three episode run in The Wonder Years .

Roxanne  Rogers ( as Waitress)

Sex : No

Death : Survives


Roxanne is the sister of actor  Sam Shephard. Her  career apparently  ended  in 1990 after a handful  of  films but  she  unexpectedly  returned to  film in 2013 and is still working.

Mindy Seeger ( as Victim )

Sex : No

Death : Fatally  injured by flying glass


Mindy  was  the  daughter of  director Hal  Seeger. She  was  mainly  active  on TV  where she is best remembered for  playing  Chris in  The  West Wing , after which  she  retired.


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