 And welcome to another episode of frightfully forgotten horror movies, but before we get started what are we drinking today? We're drinking cannibal farmhouse farm ale all right today We're gonna bring to you a classic a vintage classic 1978's the evil it is directed and co-written by Gus Traconis and he is mostly known for like directing a lot of 70s drive-in Exploitation type movies and then later on he got into television and did tons of television work with Baywatch For example, it's also co-written by Galen Thompson. He wrote the best martial arts movie of all time sidekicks It stars Richard Crenna and he is mostly known for being in Rambo's one through three Victor Bruno is in this and I'll always know him as being King Tut from the 60s Batman TV show Casey Yates is also in this and we're mentioning her because she's in one of our favorite movies Convoy right we get this big expanse right you see this great big mansion There's this poor bastard caretaker that's kind of walking up to the house. He's kind of disheveled everything has his pipe I mean it does got to take out his flask You know it starts hearing this giggling and laughing opens the furnace and he's still hearing the giggling these He's looking in and that ain't nothing. Oh sudden All these flames come out it just burns him to a crisp Running around from there we get introduced to CJ and his wife Carolyn who are being shown the house That real true guy seems like he's all drunk. He's all in trouble walking CJ wants to turn the house into like a rehabilitation center for like people with drug addictions Speak for yourself While they're waiting by the front door some boards from the ceiling fall on CJ No, right? No, don't worry about it. It's just an old house. It was built by a civil war general Vargas he built the house over like these sulfur mines the native population Would steer clear of it. They were scared of the area and they used to call it the Valley of the Devils Anyways, they decide to buy the place and get introduced to a few more the characters They're super 70s pants are all super 70s with those buttons at the side One of the dogs that one of the women brought starts freaking out the dog went into the basement and Started scratching at the floor the dog ends up freaking out again and attacks Mary Carolyn also finds in one of the rooms a diary by the man who built the house Vargas it's all blank except one page Which they kind of don't bother to read so CJ goes down to the basement and kind of sees where the dog was digging a Trap door with two handles stuck in the handles keeping it from opening is a cross Yeah, he takes the cross out and then tries to open up these doors and he can't get it open He gets called upstairs and as soon as he leaves boom Trap door opens all his light starts coming out like coming out of his mouth Then all the doors and shutters and windows all closed in the house The house is all shaking and that Felicia's all falling down the stairs and everything is like shit Just hits the fan they try getting out and they're being thrown away like physically when they try to take that table I'm like the table just flies back and all this madness the contractor gets electrocuted by a wire that comes down from the the ceiling one of the girls is like hysterical and of course It's a 70s movie her boyfriend So things kind of calm down a bit and Felicia is upstairs kind of resting on this cot And suddenly she starts being attacked by this invisible force and being again thrown around Yeah, your clothes start ripping off so they need to get the hell out of this place quick So they try getting a saw the saw the front door open. He just kind of looks over his shoulder this dead stare Right off that's not gonna work obviously One of the guys is a science teacher and he devises take these like jumper cables and Attach them to all these iron bars that are on the windows and hopefully Melt to the bar. Yeah, I guess one of the bodies kind of sits up and scares Felicia And she kind of falls back and gets electrocuted on these bars Carolyn has been seeing the ghost of what we assume is Vargas pointer to clue pointer to clues Eventually she gets led to both that cross and the diary which you left behind read this diary and they conclude Well, they got to go back down to the basement and close this trap door And we're gonna end it there and if you haven't seen the evil keep watching the movie to find out what happens They that she gets pretty crazy. Yeah, it does think it's crazy now Exactly, there's a few real memorable things about this movie the story The Vargas character and all that kind of stuff and in the mystery behind what's in the basement? What's below that trap door once you get there? It's a very memorable part of the movie and the kills exactly. Yeah, the kills are huge in this movie You mentioned the contractor, right? Yeah, but we didn't say how he died He's walking down the hallway and all of a sudden all these wires wrap around them and drag them up sort of And electrocute them at the same time Grabs it Gets all wrapped up or like a super long Yeah, another gray kill is when they're trying to escape the house They throw this kind of rope over the side scale down the house this wind comes out or nowhere And he's always Yeah, you're just waiting for him to like let go and fall to his demise, but no he just Spontaneously combusts and starts on fire Then falls yeah his death one of the girls just gets dragged up the stairs and into darkness Yeah, and you don't see what happens to her and then Ray actually ends up getting out of the house He drumps through a window Celebrating is happy and he kind of gets up to that statue And then suddenly he starts sinking into the ground like in quicksand and just disappears It's great like in the rain and everything. Yeah, it's awesome The effects for all the kills are great too, right? They're so simple and people are being thrown around the room like they get to the door and it's like something just like pushes them Yeah, it's like it's a great effect like I can you kind of wonder how the hell they do that It must have been with harnesses and wires and stuff must have been but you don't see any of that It looks very violent. Yeah, it looks like a dangerous shoot Exactly acting is is really really good for a very low-budget movie, right? Yeah, and that kind of ties into the effects too because The acting sort of completes a lot of the effects Compliments the simple effect. Yeah, exactly. So the two almost go hand-in-hand Haunting movies where things can kind of get unbelievable you need good acting to keep it believable exactly everything has to be grounded CJ's wife believes that it's ghosts and stuff and he doesn't and ties in the battle of good and evil God and the devil God and the devil the skeptic the believer. It's very sadistic to right toying with everybody And it's like, you know with some of the women he's like smacking them around stripping them having a laugh about it You can hear like the laughs in the background and shit speaking of the laughing like the sound effects in this movie are really good like when you hear like Roaring and stuff is like whoo this this is this thing that they got out Angry he's pretty mad And the music helps with all that great It helps to underline everything perfectly very kind of underlying and almost unnoticeable It's suddenly like it gets like huge in your face and just like bombarding you like just like The movie and the visuals are bombarding you would all kind of compliments itself perfectly, right? It's a mystery right because you don't know what this vision is about you don't know what this evil is Yeah, what's in this basement with each kill the movie progresses and you want to keep seeing more and more What's uncovered and the ending of this movie is very very cool We're not gonna spoil it for you does get pretty intense and it's a really cool cool ending There's some cuts of the movie for different like regions of the world didn't even have any of that really That's seen when they go Downstairs in the trapdoor some that was cut in some versions of the movie. Oh, that's sweetly That's like kind of the whole purpose of the movie. Which is strange. Yeah Explains everything exactly. Yeah, it does have a Prince of Darkness volume, too So it's got a little bit of the entity in there as well. Yeah for sure. Yeah So if you like any of those movies, please check out the evil. It's one hell of a fun ride I would say so. Yeah Until next time keep drinking