Evil Laugh is a 1986 American slasher film 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.

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."

Footnotes

Sources

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

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