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Forever Evil
(Evil God/Woods) 5*****skulls
*Blood* *Violent* *Strong Language* *No Sexual Situations* *Nudity (FF)* *Very Gory*
1987/Color/107 Min./United Home Video & B&S Productions
& Framework Films United Entertainment, Inc./Not Rated
Director...........Roger Evans
Screenplay......Freeman Williams
Music..............Rod Slane & Marianne Pendino
Producer.........Jill Clark
Executive Producer.....Bill F. Blair & Betty S. Scott
Additional Music by Universal Music & Post
Make-up by J.C. Matalon & Nightmares International
Dramatis Personae
Marc.............Red Mitchell (8 Seconds)
Reggie...........Tracey Huffman
Leo..............Charles Trotter
Nash.............Howard Jacobsen
Zombie...........Kent Johnson
Holly............Diane Johnson
Jay..............Jeffrey Lane
Jeanne...........Karen Chatfield
Robert...........David Campbell
Julie............Susan Lunt
Lisa.............Marcy Bannor
Peter............Richard Zamecki
Ben..............Freeman Williams
Mrs. Weinberger..Kayce Glasse
Devil Dog........Pepper
Critique: It is annoying that the whole connection to Leo's daughter s cut off without a trace. There are a number of obvious "borrowings" from Evil Dead. Since the God was stuck on the quasar, we theorize that the demon is an astral projection. Yog Kothag an evil god banished from the earth centuries ago. "college" written on the shirt?
The Holly scene is a winner. Dr. Marcus' confrontation with the demon is not. The attempts at witty repartee around the card table fall flat. Mark's polo shirt is no great help. The romantic declarations between Reggie and the pudgy Marc are pretty lame. Filmed on location in Houston and Coldspring, Texas in memory of Ted Luedemann.
Plot Summary: A trash Redneck woman Mrs. Weinberger complaining about her husband Billy sits for a tarot reading by her Sumerian priest (Magnus) who tells her she will meet an old acquaintance who will cause a move by offering her a new job or a trip for pleasure, suddenly he stops and announces "bad luck". Something a young man is doing right now will affect her profoundly. Brother Magnus Tower the devil death read the cards and orders her to leave and throws fifty at her when she bemoans the twenty she gave him. Magnus finds his revolver while outside something pounces on Mrs Weinberger, cutting short any thoughts about a trip or new job. Supernatural powers and a figure at the door stop Magnus from fleeing. His bullets elicit only laughter from the god who stands in his doorway. Magnus fights his fear but is not powerful enough to overcome the demon's power.
Texas. Marc Denning, his girlfriend Holly, his brother and a few friends are planning on spending one last weekend at his woods home which he is selling to the overbred Nash due to a lack of time due to business. Robert, Jeanie, Jay and Julie arrive. Mark pressures Holly to get an abortion, insisting it will soon be too late. The weekend fizzles as Holly is found disemboweled in the shower, and Julie is the only one who wasn't around. The fetus has apparently been ripped out. The group begins to look for an intruder. Pretty soon it's clear that Julie is not the culprit. Something drags at Jay while one of the girls gets attacked by a branch from outside. Before long, Mark struggles with a demon outside and manages to poke it in the eye and stumble off in the woods. He ends up on a highway and the last thing he sees is oncoming headlights. Mark awakens in a hospital with a broken leg and hip. A detective views the remains, noting that the head of one of the bodies had its head pulled off while one of the girls is in pieces. The coroner picks up the pieces of at least three people in the cottage. The headline "blood sacrifice cult spreads across the US" is on Leo's billboard. The coroner's (Peter Steadmore) daughter Lisa is Mark's doctor in the hospital. Leo calls Lisa about his reenacting the events in the cottage. Something is skulking around outside Leo's house. Reggie Osburn, another sole survivor from an event of three years before, shows up at the library where Marc is trying to track down what happened to him. She's been looking into local haunted houses. Reggie got away by slashing it. Marc and Reggie pick up the detective and they find that they had the same realtor, Nash. They decide that Nash may be a link. They show up at a house where they find The Necronomicon and the Chronicles of Yog Kath„g in a box marked by Marcus "Stuff for Lee". A black dog appears to be following the group around. Leo has used Marcus for "weird stuff". A letter indicates "he" is coming back. It appears that Nash is a Yog-cultist. When Reggie sees the mysterious black dog is on Leo's wall among the clippings, she suddenly realizes she has been seeing it everywhere. There's a quasar whose radio pulses coincide with the killings that they are tracking. One set of pulses from the sixties doesn't coincide, however. Marc is out in the night and the resurrected Holly, slightly decomposed, evil deadish, and now pregnant appears before him and pulls the child from her belly and laughs demonically. When Marc awakens, he is a bit shook. When Leo goes out to mail a letter, he is pursued by something. Marc awakens at the same moment and knows Leo is in trouble. Marc arrives to find that he's too late to help Leo. Marc discovers that the killings correspond to a pentagon pattern and they deduce the next site. Yog is an ancient God who was imprisoned on a star. The remaining cultists have been trying to bring him back. The legend indicates that if the pentagon is completed, that will mean the end for the human race. Marc and Reggie show up in paramilitary garb, armed, unfortunately, only with conventional munitions. At midnight, Lisa, Marc Daniels' secretary, calls Dr. Phillips about the quasar. She announces to her father that it's started. At Nash's place, Mark dreams of a red eyed homunculous. When he awakens, something has arrived. The bullets have only have a temporary effect on the the demon. xes and stakes do a better job on it. The next day, however, the demon, now somewhat worse for the wear, takes some more punishment. Later, however, the now singed demon returns and the battle continues. Reggie is left to try to deal with Nash, who is similarly tough, endowed with powers like being able to stop stones in mid air and laugh without moving his mouth. Nash was born in 1874. When he killed the Cressman family, he stopped aging. Alfie was a good employee, but since getting hamstrung he had to be let go. The possessed Marc is less useful. Parker Nash seems to have popped into existence thirty years ago. Marc's complaint that that's not possible in a credit card society is a nonsequitor. End?
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