Evilspeak

Evilspeak is the reason Saturday afternoons exist. It's a movie from 1981 starring a young Clint Howard as Stanley Coopersmith, an outcast military cadet, who learns how to summon Satan with the help of a magic book and a primitive computer. It steals pretty liberally (and hilariously) from Carrie and The Omen, but has a weird "evils of technology" vibe thrown in.

The movie is pretty ridiculous and I'm glad I watched it. It's one of those "only from the 80's" movies. I followed a link to the trailer, and found the full movie on Youtube. I was bored and my wife wasn't home, so I watched it.

A couple of my favorite things in the movie:

The name the bullies use to mock Stanley Coopersmith is "Cooperdick". That's not very creative, even by bully standards. If your victim has the sound "OOP" in his name, your work is already done.

Whenever the possessed computer uses its powers, a pentagram appears on the monitor, with the word "ESTEBAN" (the owner of the ancient magic book) emblazoned across it in a businesslike font. It looks like an evil corporate logo.

The third act is pretty funny too. Once Cooperdick is pushed to the edge and begins using Esteban to take out all his enemies it goes pretty crazy. A knockoff of The Omen score blasts in the background as he floats around, cutting off heads and sending evil hellhogs after them.

In conclusion, if you want to watch a weird bad 80's movie on Youtube, Evilspeak is the movie for you.

Just like Starcrash, no grade for this one. I didn't watch it for film-appreciation purposes.