'Evilspeak' (1981) - Eric Weston.

As a rabidly horror-hungry terror-teen I would frequently pig out on all the availible celluloid splatter in the local video shop. I very soon caught a deadly dose of slasher movie swine fever when I first read about, Eric Weston's satanically over-the-top gore-fest 'Evilspeak'. Banned by notorious horror haters, the censorious, far from meritorious BBFC, whom I cheekily rechristened the 'B-Movie Banning Fraidy Cats!!!'. Now gorily unleashed, one hopes that these timorous terror terminating trolls are currently reeling from the unexpurgated deviltry of this gore-ious HD restoration!

Ostensibly a cautionary tale about the catastrophic effects of bullying at a privately funded military academy with luridly occult overtures. Insensitively nicknamed 'Cooper Dick', the awkward, kind-hearted orphan Stanley Coopersmith (Clint Howard) is routinely terrorized by his asinine classmates. The text convincingly made monsters out of Coopersmith's malign classmates, and the no less callous faculty. The increasingly beleaguered Coopersmith fatefully dials up the diabolical sorcerer, Esteban via some newfangled murder modem to enact his bloody revenge. This ancient evil almost a benign patriarchal figure in comparison to the hateful cadets who are, frankly, entirely deserving of the demonically neck-severing retribution Coopersmith unleashes upon them.

Eric Weston's crudely realised example of a kooky, motherboard manifested massacre has certainly ripened evilly over time. His then-novel 'dial-a-demon' concept appears a little naive today, yet 'Evilspeak' remains a gruesomely entertaining, righteously revenging 80s schlock classic. Gorehounds will revel in the explosion of satanic savagery, gory decapitations, excruciating immolation's, bloody chest excavations, sinister spine realignment, brutal brain spiking and inventive candelabra impalement! 'Evilspeak' generously provides a deliciously varied murder menu for gore-guzzling gourmands, and my appetite for Coopersmith's head-loppingly crazy horror hootenanny is no less acute today!

'The diabolically pig-hearted horror hootenanny Evilspeak remains one of the most beastly 80s satanic slashers, even today there's snout quite like it! Before 'Ghost in the Shell' there was a 'Demon in the diode', modem horror's very first dial up devil!' - Weirdlingwolf.