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tonight's feature: Spookies (1987) on Shudder
Spookies is some straight up campy 80s horror that is either the best underground cult film of all time or the dumbest damn movie you can't believe you sat all the way through depending on your preferences.
The special effects are cheesy, the script ham-fisted, the goofball characters unlikable, yet you feel like it's a movie you and your friends could have made on Super VHS. The whole thing is a hot mess, but you've got to give them credit: this has more monsters per film minute than maybe any horror movie ever. They've got zombies, lots and lots of them. They've got farting dirt mummies, they've got an ancient spider lady, there's some demons, muck-men, a grim reaper statue, reptilian creatures, vampire boy, were-cat dude, a skeleton witch, octopus something something and the old warlock. Maybe more, I can't even remember.
Spookies is just one hard nipple twist away from Saturday the 14th, but it's not necessarily trying to be funny. Recommended if you're into cheese, goofballs, the 1980s, schlocky stuff, B-movies, Michael Jackson's Thriller video, laughing out loud or tripping balls. Not recommended if you want something halfway serious. 5 random ill-advised parties in allegedly abandoned old mansions out of 10.
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