 Welcome to another episode of Frightfully Forgotten Horror Movies, but before we get started, what are we drinking? Today we're drinking Zombie Drug Ball Smash AO. Today we're gonna bring to you 1981's Evil Speak, and this movie was directed by Eric Weston. Stars Hollywood royalty himself, Clint Howard, who has been in many, many, many things. He was in the Andy Griffiths show with his brother Ron Howard. He was in Star Trek as Baylack. Now, Beth Trotten, yeah. He was in many horror movies from tacky ones like Ice Cream Man, and the list just goes on forever. It also stars Don Stark, and he was probably most famously in that 70's show as Don as dad. Right, yeah. That sick purr. Yeah, and it was turned out to be like a wig. R.G. Armstrong is in this, and he's in tons of stuff. He's like just a famous character actor, but one horror movie he was in. He's in Children of the Corn as that old guy. Yeah, that mechanic guy. Claude Earl Jones is in this, and again he's in tons of stuff, but he's in Bride of the Reanimator, which we covered last year. Richard Moll is in this, and he is famously Bull from Nightcore. That's right. The movie starts off, it shows this satanic leader, Esteban, being banished by the church. You're standing in the water like, when would you get out of the water? Because it's cold. He's performing like this ceremony, he's got this woman of course with her shirt torn off, chanting, and then he takes her head right off. It fast-forwards to modern times. We get introduced to Stanley Coopersmith, or as the other kids in the school like to call him, Cooper Dick. I'm a little more partial to Cooper Dink myself, but he's playing soccer, but not very well. The kids are all tripping him. We learn that he's attending this school kind of as a welfare student, and it's a military school to boot. Coopersmith gets asked to help out the janitor, Sarge, cleaning up the basement of the church. Which I guess is also where Sarge lives. Yeah, yeah, cause he all sleeps there. He's all passes out in a dark and damp basement. This church was built on land given to Esteban when he was banished from the old country from Spain. See some painting of him on the wall? I want a painting of myself, drinking. Coopersmith comes across this old passageway, and he sees all these old books. There's some weird fetus in a jar. Dude, it's floating there. And all of a sudden, all the candles are all lit. Coopersmith takes back one of these books, and it's got this cool looking pentagram on it. It was like all these jewels all around. It takes that to the computer lab, and he starts typing in all these funerary incantations that are in this book in demon resurrection passages. And the computer starts to decipher what this book says. He gets called to the colonel's office, starts giving him all this shit about that he could do better. I see a lot of potential in you. Now, assume the position. He starts whipping his ass. Like, what the hell kind of school is this? In the meantime, the secretary takes home this book that Coopersmith left behind by accident. She wants the jewel that's on the front cover, and as she's prying off the jewel the pigs start to go all nuts and try to kill Coopersmith. Why this school has a pig pen with like these giant hogs, or what kind of school is this? He starts actually trying to read these passages and conduct some sort of ceremony. He gets interrupted because he's late for supper. All the food's gone. He's all scraping those tins. But the cook is nice enough to say, come back here, I'll cook you a meal just for you. He's got no shirt on, but the apron still. Cook is nice enough to actually give him a little puppy of this litter. The group of cadets which have been bullying Coopersmith throughout the whole movie, calling him Cooper Dick, they're partying one night for this pageant that they're having, find their way into the basement and they see that he's got all these weird books, no reading from this text and pretending to do the ceremony. They kill the dog. So Coopersmith comes back down, he's already been bullied up at the pageant, they're making fun of him, he's pushed around. They take his pants and everything? Yep, they take his pants and everything, he's had enough. Comes down and to find his poor dog dead, decides to finish the ceremony to bring Esteban back so he can get his revenge on all these bullies, but he needs a human sacrifice and right when he needs a human sacrifice, the teacher comes down to look for him. Coopersmith? Coopersmith? He just grabs him and throws him to the ceilings, where there's this chandelier thing with all these spikes, there's a human sacrifice and Esteban can come back and that's where we're going to end the plot. If you want to see what happens at the end of EvilSpeak, finish watching the movie. One of the best things about this movie are the effects. And the kills. And the kills. Exactly. We didn't really talk about the kills in the plot, so let's go over some of the really good crazy kills in the movie. When the secretary gets killed by a bunch of those boars, they break out of the pan and find their way into her apartment after she's getting all naked in front of that fireplace. On the couch first, Jill slips off her panties like, why not just do that in the washroom? Which is where the killer is in the bathtub and they eat her alive. Sarge is a good one because he comes down. There's my goddamn fucking crowbar. They're all getting ready to fight and he pulls his flask out and starts drinking. While they're grappling, I guess Esteban or whatever just turns his head right around. Another great death is when Cooper Smith is finally kind of like resurrected Esteban and gathering at the church and the priest is there and there's a crucifix that starts kind of shaking it. It's neat because you see like the pulse through and there's a nail that starts moving and he's like, what, the nail comes out and shoots right into the priest's head. Cooper Smith is like sort of resurrected as Esteban and he kind of floats up and he's got Esteban's sword from the beginning and the colonel is there like sort of standing in his way and he just brings the sword down right over his head and splits his head in half. Yeah, the whole last half is just epic and full of death and beheadings. A lot of heads roll in this. Characters, you really hate those bullies. Yeah, even calling him Cooper Dick is very realistic. Exactly. It's like that's something we would call somebody is Cooper Dick. Cooper Ding, but in Clint Howard is very good in this and he doesn't play your typical weirdo, Clint Howard. He plays it serious. Exactly. And he plays it sympathetic and you really do feel sorry for him. Yeah. And he's got a full head of hair. Yeah, that's right. Kind of because it's combed forward. Died. The receding hairline grew the back out longer. The sets in this movie are actually really damn good, especially in the basement. Yeah, like that whole passageway in that room where he conducts all the ceremonies and then that extra passageway where Esteban is buried. The music in this movie really sets the tone operatic style with all the big choir. But then also there's a good 80s synthesizer score with that too. So it kind of melds like the old with the new, which is neat. You also see old world magic meet new world technology, right? Overall, just good revenge movie. Spend the whole movie watching Cooper Smith being tormented and made fun of. And then at the end, he finally gets his own. Exactly. And then when he does, it's like, yeah, this is great. He's just have a blast watching it. It's like the ultimate underdog story, right? He's like this weakling and then he gets a hold of this power. Yeah. And then he uses it to just wipe out all these assholes. So if you want to watch sort of an earlier version of like the Prince of Darkness or even Halloween three, totally check out evil speak. It's tons of fun, blood and gore and rolling heads. Who could ask for more? Exactly. Until next time, keep drinking.