Written by Thomas Doran, Brendan Faulkner, Frank Feral and Ann Burgund
Directed by Brendan Faulkner, Thomas Doran and Eugenie Joseph
Starring Felix War, Dan Scott, Alec Nemser and Maria Pechukas
USA, 1988
SPOOKIES is a hard movie to describe because it seems to be all over the place. In fact, as its opening scenes unfolded, I began to wonder how any of the disparate elements were connected at all. It turns out the needlessly convoluted opening scenes do nothing other than get a bunch of people into a house full of monsters. That’s all you really need to know.
But it also says nothing about why this movie is so weird. Without going into too much detail, as far as I can gather, the bulk of the movie (people wandering around a house full of monsters) was shot by one group and abandoned. Then another group came along to shoot framing seems I guess to try to stitch the whole thing together, even though they only serve to confuse the proceedings by adding a plot that is strangely disconnected from our core-group of house dwellers that has to do with an old guy (or dead guy, or something) with a werewolf (or werecat, or something) trying to resurrect his dead wife.
The main “house of monsters” story seems to have been conceived of as an episodic series of events to showcase someone or a team of someones who thought they had really nailed the special effects and makeup. And in some cases, they have. There are some truly gross and interesting monsters on display. Other times, not so much. It’s hit and miss.
Is it so bad it’s good, though? Sort of. It’s a lot to sit through the whole thing but if you can get a highlight reel somewhere that’s probably worth checking out because otherwise you might not believe this movie exists.
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