976-Evil DVD

976-Evil
This underrated teen-revenge horror film starring Stephen Geoffreys (Fright Night) was the directorial debut of Robert Englund, best known as Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare on Elm Street series. Geoffreys plays Hoax, a picked-on nerd who lives with his religious-nut mother Lucy (the marvelous Sandy Dennis). One day Hoax calls a 976-line for a "Horrorscope," and the demonic voice at the other end starts giving him wicked advice. Before long, he has killed his brother's girlfriend with tarantulas, slashed the face of a teen tough with his newly-sprouted talons, and gutted several of his tormentors. Only a well-meaning journalist and a sexy schoolmarm can stop the now-demonic Hoax before he sends the whole neighborhood straight to Hell. Granted, the screenplay is rather confused and slow-moving, but Geoffreys and Dennis are great, the effects work by Kevin Yagher is skillful, and this is one of the few teen-horror films with characters that are actually interesting. Look for Robert Picardo (The Howling) in a fun cameo as the diabolical Mark Darke. After a brief stint as a teen star, Geoffreys went on to appear in gay porn films as "Sam Ritter." ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide

Cast Stephen Geoffreys as Hoax Jim Metzler as Marty Palmer Patrick O'Bryan as Spike Maria Rubell as Angella Martinez Sandy Dennis as Aunt Lucy Jim Thiebaud as Rags Gunther Jensen as Airhead Darren E. Burrows as Jeff Robert Picardo as Mark Dark

Crew David Brian Miller - Art Director Elizabeth Gower-Grudzinski - Costume Designer Robert Englund - Director Stephen Myers - Editor Tom Chase - Composer (Music Score) Steve Rucker - Composer (Music Score) Susan Reiner - Makeup Kevin Yagher - Makeup Special Effects Paul Elliott - Cinematographer Paul Hertzberg - Producer Lisa Hansen - Producer Nancy Booth - Set Designer Sandy McCarthy - Special Effects Kevin McCarthy - Special Effects John Michael Stewart - Stunts Rhet Topham - Screenwriter Brian Helgeland - Screenwriter

976-Evil
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General Specifications: Language Options: English Subtitle Options: English, French, Spanish, Por, KO Sound Processing: Additional Features: cc Digitally mastered audio & video Full-screen presentation Audio: English Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Chinese Bonus trailers Interactive menus Scene selections DVD Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1: Pre-1954 Standard MPAA Rating: R DVD Discs Included: 1 DVD Sides: 1 DVD DVD Region Code: 1 Content Length: 92 min   DVD Chapters: Side #1 -- 1. Start [4:21] 2. Hoax [2:54] 3. Spike's Horrorscope #1 [1:13] 4. Aunt Lucy [2:40] 5. God's Fish [2:24] 6. Toilet Shampoo [4:34] 7. A Deal Is a Deal [4:10] 8. Spike's Horrorscope #2 [2:01] 9. Look Both Ways... [2:02] 10. Suzie Gets Spiked [4:54] 11. Hoax's Horrorscope [3:11] 12. The Girl of His Dreams [4:34] 13. Down in the Dumpster [3:21] 14. Hoax's Hex [3:29] 15. The Telephone Bill [2:40] 16. "I Killed Her, Spike." [3:28] 17. Mark Dark [3:48] 18. "He Cut You So Bad!" [4:41] 19. A Prayer for Starving Kitties [1:35] 20. Hoax Takes the Power [5:09] 21. Dead Man's Hand [2:42] 22. Shock Finish [:57] 23. "Bye-Bye." [1:57] 24. Never Too Old to Get It [6:06] 25. Cat Got Her Tongue [3:36] 26. Hell Freezes Over [2:15] 27. "Burn Baby, Burn!" [1:02] 28. Back Where He Belongs [6:20]