Evilspeak

Evilspeak (1981)

Remember the little kid you used to pick on? Well, he's a big boy now.

Bullied by classmates, a pudgy military-school student fights back by computer with the devil.

Date of release
1981-08-22
TMDB
5.3 / 10 (125)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Horror, Science Fiction
Director
Eric Weston

Casting

Interesting facts

Evilspeak is a 1981 American horror film directed by Eric Weston and co-written by Weston and Joseph Garofalo. The film stars Clint Howard as an outcast cadet named Stanley Coopersmith, who frequently gets tormented by his mates and advisers at a military academy. Upon finding a book of Black Mass that belonged to the evil medieval Father Lorenzo Esteban, he taps through a computer to conjure Satan and summons spells and demons to get revenge on his harassers.

Production

The film was shot in three weeks, using locations in Santa Barbara at what is now Garden Street Academy and a condemned church in South Central. According to DVD commentary, the dilapidated church was superficially renovated for the movie shoot, confusing a priest who previously worked there and causing him to get on his knees and pray to God. The church was burned to the ground some three days later.

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