Evil Laugh

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Guy gets a large knife through the groin and out the butt!

Fellow F13 Fans Take Note - This One Is For Us

Straight to video horror film with only a few laughs

Worst movie ever. An abonimation. A plague on humanity.

Evil Laugh
Starring: Steven Baio , Dominick Brascia , Jody Gibson , Susan Grant , and Tony Griffin
Director: Dominick Brascia
Manufacturer: ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMS INC.
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00008HCAZ
Release Date: 2003-03-25

Customer Reviews:

Guy gets a large knife through the groin and out the butt! .......2006-02-21

I watched this movie with a friend of mine and as the end credits began to roll she announced "That was one of the Top 5 Worst Movies I've ever seen." I told her "That wouldn't even get in my Top 100." With a look of pity in her eyes she replied "You waste too much of your time."

And why exactly didn't this wretched turkey get on my Top 100 list? Well, let's see shall we?

(1) It wasn't painful to watch like say AX `EM, ZOMBIE NINJAS or ORANGES: THE MOVIE in fact it was quite a hoot mainly due to the (2) inadvertent, but hilarious bad acting and (3) the script that made little sense to the point that the actors did a lot of talking to themselves to point out what was going on.

(4) To pad the running time there was bizarre filler scenes thrown in like one guy completely rocking out to the "Lone Ranger" theme song and another even more shocking near-dance number by half the cast while cleaning the living room.

(5) The kills, exploding head in microwave while the door is still open, plus the one I mention in the title. Ten kills total. (6) The 80's clothes and music.

But the biggest reason this movie didn't make it into my Top 100 is (7) the non-stop homosexual undertones between the male characters even while they stood around talking about girls. I guarantee if you had a drinking game where you took a snort every time a guy touched another guy or a guy took his shirt off you'd be drunker that Mickey Rourke in BARFLY within an hour...well what are you waiting for?!

Fellow F13 Fans Take Note - This One Is For Us.......2005-08-01

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and if so the makers of Evil Laugh must be huge Friday The 13th fans. Fortunately in this case imitation isn't a necessarily a bad thing, and if you like (or love, like I do) the F13 series you'll probably also be pleased with this movie that's so on track with Friday it could have been filmed in the woods just outside Crystal Lake. To be fair, the killer Doesn't look anything like Jason Voorhees, but it's still a very similar movie.

And a very good movie, a solid entry in the stalk-and-slash subgenre of the field, both sexier and somewhat more violent than most....I don't want to say 'clones' because that sounds too derogatory...lesser-known horror movies that have strived to follow in the footsteps of their more famous inspirations (F13, Nightmare On Elm Street, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, et al.) I usually find that most of the, um, strivers tend to be tamer fare than their better known 'source material', but that's not the case here. Things admittedly get off to a shaky start with a terribly botched attempt at humour in the opening minutes (I wonder how many of today's top grossing comedies have taken their cues from that scene?) but get on track quickly and decisively. One of the things working in its favor is the limited number of characters staying at the forest house where most of the movie takes place, meaning that the movie had to find ways to move itself forward without the bloody slaughter of another character every few minutes. Sometimes the rapid-paced carnage right from the start works well (Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter is an example of a successful movie that jumped right into killing territory and maintained that territory at a pretty regular clip throughout) but Evil Laugh is already so close to what has come before that the change of pace dictated by the much smaller cast forces it to be take at least some different paths. Extended build-up, a lot of very sexy sights, and some humour that actually Works, as well as the lurking but limited prescence of the antagonist working as a suspenseful positive, keep the show from dragging one bit before the killer strikes, at which time it distnguishes itself as quite a vicious entry in the line of F13-type fare. A good example of how lighter, even silly moments, and brutality/intensity can co-exist in the same movie without it becoming a campy farce.

It wouldn't be good for horror if too many movies came out that were This close to a movie or series from before, but when it's done good it doesn't hurt once in a while. Incidentally, I'm definately NOT including relatively obscure fare like Tourist Trap, Cutting Class, The Fear or a number of others in the 'too close' or 'imitative' category; those movies were all in the same vein as others that had come before but forged their own distinct identities. Evil Laugh didn't really do that, but it was Good enough that it's not a big worry. Now, if there had been a couple of Sequels, it could have set about differentiating itself....

On its own merits actually outdoing a couple of Jason's rampages, this is strongly recommended for all Friday Fans, or for that matter the Halloween series, Tourist Trap, Wrong Turn and the like.

Straight to video horror film with only a few laughs.......2005-03-10

This direct-to-video effort also features the director as the killer, if I remember correctly (he also played the fat idiot that is the first one killed in "Friday The 13th Part 5"). As you may have guessed by the title, the psycho laughs every time he kills someone.

Nothing fascinating in the script department: A group of college students buy a orphanage in which some murders took place or something like that and are in turn murdered one by one. I think the writers of the rather lame "SCREAM" (1996) stole the idea for the hood/white mask from this movie.

It's the only movie I've seen where some guy's head explodes while it is "stuck" in a microwave (which has its door OPEN(?)). The ending is funny, it is VERY obvious the guy who shoots the gun which "kills" the killer aims it about 45 degrees away from his target!! Another funny thing is that I read on the internet Dominick Brascia (director) actually TEACHES acting classes!!!???? YIKES!!!

Worst movie ever. An abonimation. A plague on humanity........2003-01-09

This fine film is a vehicle for up and coming superstar Steven Baio. It's obvious where all the talent in the Baio family went. I'd even go as far to say that it should've been "Steven in Charge" or "Steven loves Joanie." A revolutionary statement, but a true one nonetheless. Other reviewers might disagree with me, but I stand by my word. One of the opening scenes is simply enthralling, exhibiting a hilarious comedic twist when one of Baio's friends accidentally urinates on a couple sitting on the beach. You can only imagine how good it gets from there. Don't let me spoil it for you, rent this classic today!

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