976-EVIL (1988)
A tedious eighties horror from director Robert Englund about a creepy fortune telling phone line that is actually used by Satan to corrupt mortals into doing nefarious deeds. Mortals such as Hoax, a teen who goes through life being picked on by his so called friends. Thanks to Satan's power Hoax can now exact revenge on all those who wronged him.
I suppose it's preferable to invoking the demon Pumpkinhead to kill everyone but only slightly.
Anyway, the long and short of it is is that 976-EVIL is so eighties it practically hurts. The firsy half is fairly slow moving high school hi-jinks but things do improve in a climax of great eighties day-glo FX in that
Poltergeist manner and cool make up but it's just not scary at all nor is their any tension or that much excitement.
I took it to CEX this lunchtime as they gave me £11 cash for it which is a whole penny more than i paid for it in the Eureka sale last Thursday. That's £11 extra to spend in the upcoming Powerhouse sale.
Halloween II (1981)
Seeing as i now have
Halloween III to watch on Blu-ray thanks to Justin i thought i'd watch that on Halloween instead of this sequel in a break from tradition. So dug out the dvd again with the commentary by Kim Newman and Stephen Jones.
You can tell it's going to be a fun listen when Newman introduces himself as "Author, critic and general know it all".
A highly listenable commentary that i really recommend. As far as i'm aware it's only available on the early Sanctuary UK dvd which if anyone's interested is currently being sold at Asda for £3 (A 2011 Scanbox reissue). It's worth picking up purely for the commentary.