Spookies

Flashback to a time of rubber monsters and unhinged lunacy at MONDO ’86, featuring 40th anniversary screenings of some of 1986’s wildest and most Mondo-riffic horror flicks that made the decade, like, totally awesome!

“A night of unrelenting terror!” The rubber-faced monsters come out to play, big time, in Spookies, one of the most insane low-budget horror flicks of the ‘80s … which is saying a lot! After their car breaks down, a group of travelers find themselves stranded in a remote part of New England. After taking shelter in a sorcerer’s spooky old mansion, complete with a graveyard, they discover a ouija board and decide to spend the night attempting to summon some spirits. But the group soon learns that playing with the forces of black magic isn’t fun and games, and it’s not long before they’re face-to-freaky-face with all sorts of demonic creatures, shape shifters, and other forms of evil, all of whom are more than happy to pick them off in the most gruesome of ways.  Notorious for its bizarre production history (which basically led to two films being haphazardly pasted together for maximum confusion) and its demented parade of wild practical effect creatures – Sinister spider woman! Hook-handed were-cat! Farting dirt monsters! – Spookies is a mind-boggling mad monster party that feels like a bad dream from which the world has never fully awakened. (Dir. by Thomas Doran/Brendan Faulkner/Genie Joseph, 1986, USA, 85 mins., Rated R)