This is the second one of these Video Nasties where I have had a thought about the labeling and targeting these were subject to. Much like in Blood Rites, is it a lot of the incongruity and frankly the unexpectedness of these films level of violence that gets them labeled as problems? Here you have a seemingly normal sci-fi, fen enough fantasy film, why does it have a scene of pigs eating guts? In Blood Rites its a Agatha Christie talky been there done that plot, why the grisly death scene?
What I'm saying is that Texas Chainsaw was not on the Video Nasty list, and that's probably because they knew what they were getting in for, they were ready. It didn't come of left field like it does in this movie and Blood Rites. Its unexpected here. Is that why they didn't like it?
Evilspeak I had seen before and had pretty much lumped in with the Ice Cream Man and a few other early Clint Howard B grade horror movies. Movies that were capitalizing on his weird look and presence and yet real acting talent to have him be a top heel in some whatever level thriller.
Which Evilspeak very much is, its some whatever level thriller, and thus the gut eating scenes are a bit pushing the envelope, this type of territory should be barely rated R, the type of thing you end up showing to 13 year old because its not that bad and you're a cool uncle or whatever. The plot is some silly trash about Satan in a computer giving superpowers and theres a touch of nudity and its all very much the type of rated R thing people like me saw when they were 10...except for those few gore scenes.
Evilspeak is an interesting, out there thriller that is fun and off kilter enough. Feels like the type of 80s trash we all grew up with. 2.5 stars.
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