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976-EVIL

Year:

1989

Duration:

USA:92 min

Genres:

Comedy | Horror

IMDB rate:

Director:

Robert Englund

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1989-03-24

Filming Locations: Los Angeles, California, USA

Earnings

Gross: $2,955,917 (USA) Filming Dates 12 October 1987 Copyright Holder (C)

Cast

Actor

Character

Stephen Geoffreys

Hoax

Patrick O'Bryan

Spike

Sandy Dennis

Aunt Lucy

Jim Metzler

Marty

María Rubell

Angela (as Maria Rubell)

Lezlie Deane

Suzie

J.J. Cohen

Marcus

Paul Willson

Mr. Michaels

Greg Collins

Mr. Selby

Darren E. Burrows

Jeff (as Darren Burrows)

Joanna Keyes

Suzie's Mother

Gunther Jenson

Airhead (as Gunther Jensen)

J.J. Johnston

Virgil

John Slade

John Doe

Demetre Phillips

Sergeant Bell

Don Bajema

Deputy

Jim Thiebaud

Rags

Wendy J. Cooke

Gang Girl (as Wendy Cooke)

Tom McFadden

Minister (as Thom McFadden)

Larry Turk

Operator #1

Cynthia Szigeti

Female Operator

Christopher Metas

Cashier

Roxanne Rogers

Waitress

Bert Hinchman

Coroner

Nay K. Dorsey

Paramedic #1 (as Nay Dorsey)

Jim Landis

Paramedic #2

Ed Corbett

Santa Claus

Quigley

Aunt Lucy's Parrot

Robert Picardo

Mark Dark

Mindy Seeger

Victim

James Boutin

Wife (uncredited)

Nick Dongarra

Husband (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Marcus was originally supposed to be killed by being thrown off the roof of a building by Hoax. However, this had to be changed to Marcus getting killed in the bathroom by Hoax instead because of the low budget.

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Spike's usual (favorite food) at the diner is 'Deviled Egg'.

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J.J. Cohen lost about thirty pounds for his role as Marcus.

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Goofs

When the girlfriend of the lead actor and his cousin are sitting eating pizza in a diner, his hair goes changes how messy it is through the scene.

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When Spike is dialing from a phone booth outside the auto parts store, his is instructed to dial "666." He pushes three buttons, but the final tone is a different frequency than the first two. If he dialed three sixes, all three tones should have been the same.

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When the girlfriend is preparing a tv dinner in her home, she puts the dinner in the oven then puts the timer on 25 minutes, but when they do a close up of the clock, it says 15 minutes.

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Quotes

Hoax: Once you've been to hell, everything else pales in comparison!

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Hoax: [possessed Hoax produces two ripped-out hearts] Would it be possible... to enter the game with a pair of hearts?

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Pet Parrot: [After possessed Hoax slashes and kills his mother and blood splatters onto the sofa] [Repeated Line] Pet Parrot: Not on the couch! Not on the Couch! *squawk Hoax: [Possessed Hoax reaches into the cage and squeezes the bird to death] That's what the plastic's for, asshole!

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Faq

What are the differences between the Theatrical Version and the Extended Cut?

In the US, Robert Englund's solid debut as a director was 14 minutes shorter in movie theaters. This version is knows as "Cinema Cut" and it misses some smaller and some bigger plot elements but most of them are completely superfluous so I take it the footage was removed for pace reasons. A longer "Extended Version" was released on VHS and Laserdisc. As a detailed comparison shows, the Laserdisc Version is based on the Extended Version and yet it's not completely uncut - as this comparison shows. Whether or not the VHS is completely uncut is unknown. The DVD only contains the "Cinema Cut", a decent release of the "Extended Cut" hasn't been announced yet. In Germany, both the "Cinema Cut" and the "Extended Version" are available on the DVD released by Eyecatcher Movies. The VHS wasn't uncut either by the way. A detailed comparison between both versions with pictures can be found here.

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