Spookies

Sloppy, incoherent '80s horror movie with some admittedly decent practical effects, including some farting zombie mud monsters, a voyueristic werewolf, and a surprisingly combustible grim reaper. Feels like it was edited by a drunk ceiling fan. A goldmine of unintentional comedy.

The ground tears open in the cellar and from the rotten earth zombies rise and oh ... they’re farting for some reason.

As a film, Spookies is only worth watching if you're interested in special effects. But as an experience, it is worth your time to look into the production of the film. The more you learn, the more you'll want to see how they hobbled this thing together and it makes the viewing experience slightly less baffling. Event cinema of the lowest order, get a group or just bemuse yourself like I did.

The making of story is better than the actual movie and explains a lot about how the resulting extraordinarily nonsensical and confusing story line came to be, but the creature effects are the real reason to watch (some early work by a 16 year old Gabe Bartalos is featured) and it's still a fun enjoyable while opaque watch. Would love to see a release of the original Twisted Souls cut, but I still highly recommend for those looking for oozy, grimy, Evil Dead influenced low budget film making.

Basically a Sunday School version of The Evil Dead: for every great goopy rubber gore effect, it makes the zombies fart (not figuratively) in some penance to the horror movie gods for its breach of seriousness. Even then, it has its charms. Runner-up: 70-year-on dead bride attempts escape by trying to figure out how to drive a woody station wagon. Winner: Lord, when I die, I want to be wearing a shirt of myself playing with my beloved puppets.