Spookies | |
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Directed by | Brendan Faulkner, Thomas Doran |
Produced by | Brendan Faulkner, Thomas Doran, Frank Farel |
Written by | Thomas Doran, Brendan Faulkner, Frank Farel |
Starring | Peter Dain, Peter Iasillo, Joan Ellen Delaney, Soo Paek, Nick Gionta, Anthony J Valbiro, Lisa Friede, Kim Merrill, Charlotte Alexandra, Al Magliochetti, Felix Ward, Alec Nemser, Maria Pechukas |
Music by | James Calabrese Kenneth Higgins |
Cinematography | Ken Kelsch, Robert Chappel |
Edited by | Eugenie Joseph |
Distributed by | Sony Video Software Company |
Release date
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May 14, 1986 (France) January 8, 1987 (Hong Kong) January 1988 (United States) |
Running time
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85 min |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $17,785 |
Spookies is a 1986 independent horror film. Remembered for its copious creature effects, its patchwork editing, and for boasting an effective soundtrack, Spookies was given a limited theatrical release in 1987–88 and a more widespread video release in 1988. It was shown on cable television's USA Network multiple times between 1988–1991. To date this film has not been released on DVD in the United States.
A 13-year-old boy named Billy runs from home as his parents forget his birthday. Making his way through thick woods, he encounters a drifter who is violently slashed to death after Billy leaves. Billy stumbles on an old mansion where a room is decorated for birthday celebrations. Thinking it is a surprise by his parents, he opens a present to discover a severed head. Running away, he is attacked by the drifter's killer, a werecat with a hook on one hand, and subsequently buried alive.
Meanwhile, a group of teenagers and some older adults come across the mansion intending to have a party, believing the mansion to be abandoned. However, a sorcerer named Kreon resides there, keeping watch over his bride who he has kept preserved for over 70 years using an unrevealed method, but it is known that he needs human victims in order to do it. He possesses one of teenagers in the group to use a Ouija board and summons a variety of monsters to pick off the group one by one. These include muck-men, small reptilian demons, giant spiders, an arachnid woman, an octopus-like creature with electric tentacles, a skeletal witch, a Grim Reaper statue, a vampiric boy in a monk's habit, and a large group of zombies.
Eventually, the entire group is killed by the monsters and Kreon hopes to preserve his bride for longer, but she escapes by killing him and trying to outrun the zombie horde around the mansion. The bride eventually is saved by a man who drives her away in his car. Kreon regenerates out of a coffin as it is revealed the man in the car is actually the werecat. The camera pans on Kreon's laughing face and the credits roll.