| Evil Laugh | |
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| Directed by | Dominick Brascia, Jr.1 |
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| Cinematography | Stephen Sealy1 |
| Edited by | Brion McIntosh Michael Scott |
| Music by | David Shapiro1 |
Production company | Wildfire Productions1 |
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Running time | 87 minutes1 |
| Country | United States1 |
Evil Laugh is a 1986 American slasher film2 directed and starring Steven Baio, Kim McKamy, Tony Griffin, Jody Gibson with Johnny Venocur and Dominick Brascia, Jr. The film is about a group of medical students attacked by a masked killer while repairing a building over the weekend.3
Plot
A decade ago, an orphanage has been rebuilt after being burned down following accusations of child molestation and abuse from the building's custodian. A group of medical students is brought in by pediatrician-turned-doctor to rebuild the building as a foster home, while a psychotic masked assailant stalks them.
Cast
- Kim McKamy as Connie
- Steven Baio as Johnny Barlony
- Tony Griffin as Sammy Baxton III
- Jerold Pearson as Barney White
- Myles O'Brien as Mark Armstrong
- Jody Gibson as Tina
- Howard Weiss as Mr. Burns
- Karyn O'Bryan as Betty
- Susan Grant as Sadie
- Gary Hays as Jerry
- Hal Shafer as Chief Cash
- Johnny Venocur as Freddy
- Tom Shell as Delivery Boy
- Dominick Brascia as Evil Laugher
Reception
In his overview of horror films from the 1980s, Scott Aaron Stine described the film as "effortless tripe" and that "There is nothing, I repeat, nothing worthwhile or even remotely worthwhile or even remotely memorable about this waste of celluloid."1
References
References
Footnotes
- Stine 2015, p. 115.
- Brennan, Sandra. "Evil Laugh". AllMovie. Retrieved August 1, 2019.
- Brascia, Dominick (January 2015). "Evil Laugh (1986) review". The Revenge of That Was a Bit Mental. Retrieved August 18, 2020.
Sources
- Stine, Scott Aaron (2015). The Gorehound's Guide to Splatter Films of the 1980s. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-1132-7.