Evil Laugh

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Evil Laugh
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Directed byDominick Brascia, Jr. [1]
Screenplay by
  • Steven Baio
  • Dominick Brascia, Jr. [1]
Produced by
  • Steven Baio
  • Dominick Brascia, Jr. [1]
Starring
  • Myles O'Brien
  • Dominick Brascia
  • Jerold Pearson
  • Kim McKamy
CinematographyStephen Sealy [1]
Edited byBrion McIntosh
Michael Scott
Music byDavid Shapiro [1]
Production
company
Wildfire Productions [1]
Running time
87 minutes [1]
CountryUnited States [1]

Evil Laugh is a 1986 American slasher film [2] directed and starring Dominick Brascia, Jr. and stars Myles O'Brien, Jerold Pearson, and Kim McKamy. The film is about a group of medical students attacked by a masked killer while repairing a building over the weekend. [3]

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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.

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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]

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References

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Stine 2015, p. 115.
  2. Brennan, Sandra. "Evil Laugh". AllMovie . Retrieved 1 August 2019.
  3. Brascia, Dominick (January 2015). "Evil Laugh (1986) review". The Revenge of That Was a Bit Mental. Retrieved 18 August 2020.

Sources

  • Stine, Scott Aaron (2015). The Gorehound's Guide to Splatter Films of the 1980s. McFarland. ISBN   978-1-4766-1132-7.