'The Evil' (1978) - Gus Trikonis.

'The Evil' (1978) is some gloriously spooky vintage horror-house hokum starring the delightfully sleek-limbed scion of celluloid schlock, Andrew Prine! 'The Evil' remains a fun, eerily effective, spectacularly shock-slathered haunted house humdinger! The immaculately stern, splendidly bearded, Richard Crenna and the amiable, Prine disturbingly find themselves at the veritable epicentre of a centuries old battle betwixt the righteous forces of good and the bellicose belligerence of an evil incarnate! Merest minims after entering this foreboding, creepily cavernous abode it becomes patently obvious that this malefic, triumphantly ill-tempered mansion means to do our lovable protagonists a seriously Satanic mischief!

This wickedly entertaining, rigorously told, demonized domicile barnstormer is thrillingly peppered with a shuddersome series of freaky-deakey ‘no-more sleepy’ set pieces. The full-blooded performances from these talented terror-tweaked Thespians, and Johnny 'Fragment of Fear' Harris's palpitatingly shudder-worthy score really boosts Trikonis's brimstone blasted B-Movie! Any fright fans seeking a supernaturally spooky jolt of old school Satanic panic from the golden age of jumbo cord trews, arbitrary nudity, garish Iron-on transfers and high-heeled sandals will dig heavily on 'The Evil'.