This is one of those guilty pleasures. The budget is low, effects are outdated, story is cheesy, and the acting... well actually the acting isn't so bad in this. Clint Howard does a great job as the out of shape abused nerd that just happens to be in a Military School. Don't ask me why he of all people would be there in the first place, it's best it you don't try and poke at the plot holes, or things come apart pretty quickly.
So this movie follows a simple basic formula, people abuse nerd, nerd finds satanic book, nerd becomes possessed, nerd slaughters those who did him wrong. It's that straight forward.
The most enjoyable scene in the film for a variety of reasons is when the greedy secretary Miss Friedemeyer who stole Stanley's book because she wanted the jewel pentagram from the cover goes home and tries to pry it off but can't. So when she runs into a dead end with that she then strips and has a nice shower scene for the audience(I didn't complain). While she's showering she hears a noise, the first time she shakes it off as if it was nothing, the second time she gets out of the shower to investigate. When she opens the bathroom door to see what the noise is she's attacked but a pack of wild bores(pigs). She desperately flees to the bathtub with no avail. The bores attack her, ripping her apart, and thus eat her alive. The final shot of Miss Friedemeyer is when the bores flip her dead body out of the tub, and tear out her intestines.
This movie is a cheap, campy, cheesy horror flick. It's good to watch on a B-Horror film night, or when your bored and you have nothing better to do. Normally I'd give this film a 5/10, but the Miss Friedemeyer death sequence made me take it up a notch to 6/10.
So this movie follows a simple basic formula, people abuse nerd, nerd finds satanic book, nerd becomes possessed, nerd slaughters those who did him wrong. It's that straight forward.
The most enjoyable scene in the film for a variety of reasons is when the greedy secretary Miss Friedemeyer who stole Stanley's book because she wanted the jewel pentagram from the cover goes home and tries to pry it off but can't. So when she runs into a dead end with that she then strips and has a nice shower scene for the audience(I didn't complain). While she's showering she hears a noise, the first time she shakes it off as if it was nothing, the second time she gets out of the shower to investigate. When she opens the bathroom door to see what the noise is she's attacked but a pack of wild bores(pigs). She desperately flees to the bathtub with no avail. The bores attack her, ripping her apart, and thus eat her alive. The final shot of Miss Friedemeyer is when the bores flip her dead body out of the tub, and tear out her intestines.
This movie is a cheap, campy, cheesy horror flick. It's good to watch on a B-Horror film night, or when your bored and you have nothing better to do. Normally I'd give this film a 5/10, but the Miss Friedemeyer death sequence made me take it up a notch to 6/10.