Evil Toons

Evil has never been more ridiculous than it is during EVIL IS AS EVIL DOES Month, featuring a Mondo-style celebration of all that’s, you know … evil!

“This Dude is Rude!”  What happens when you mix fun-loving co-eds, a slobbering cartoon demon modeled on the Tasmanian Devil, and David Carradine as a stoned cowboy magician? Naturally, you get the ridiculous Roger Rabbit horror rip-off, Evil Toons! Directed with minimum attention to logic and maximum attention to jiggle by B-movie maestro Fred Olen Ray, Evil Toons tells the terrifying tale of four over-aged sorority girls who, for reasons not entirely clear, decide to take on a weekend job cleaning an old haunted house. But wait! Just when it seems like this will be a run-of-the-mill weekend filled with mop buckets, scrub brushes and bikinis, supernatural shenanigans begin to transpire, and it appears that the ghost of a previous tenant (a dazed David Carradine, dressed like a hippie cowboy) needs the girls’ help ridding himself of a murderous cartoon monster that has escaped from an ancient, flesh-bound book of magic. Somehow, all that giggling, jiggling and wiggling has awakened this leering, lecherous animated demon who fancies himself a ladies’ man. Before you know it, the girls are up to their sports bras in danger, and they’ve got to figure out a way to survive the weekend AND keep their clothes on. A very low-budget attempt to combine Roger Rabbit, The Evil Dead and an episode of TV’s The Facts of Life with the timeless appeal of gratuitous T&A (personified by busy direct-to-video Scream Queen Monique Gabrielle, star of Munchie and The Return of Swamp Thing), Evil Toons is pure processed movie cheese – tasty but probably terrible for your health! (Dir. by Fred Olen Ray, 1992, USA, 86 mins., Rated R)