Good concept, poorly executed.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

This is one of the scariest movies I have ever seen. It has a great story line. It also has great acting. If it does not scary you no movie will. This is scarier then A Nightmare on elm street. I give it 10 out of 10

I was really looking forward to this one! I've been renting cheesy 80s movies on iTunes lately and thought, "Hey, why not try this one." Looked kinda cool, but it was really dumb. The idea is good, but the execution wasn't.So why does the Fright Night kid get turned into the monster? Why not the motorcycle guy? They both called the same number.I watched this movie less than a week ago but I can barely remember what I was going to write about it. There was too much build up and little delivery, that was one thing. I'm not sure if I can't stand the Fright Night kid or if I'm okay with him. He smiles in every scene, it's pretty annoying. Same thing in Fright Night too, just smilin' away, havin fun. He turns into a monster in Fright Night too, which I just now remembered.Anyway, bottom line - dumb movie, I would say only aficionados of 80s garbage would want to spend time on this one. I would NOT say it's so bad it's good, I would just say it's bad.Peace!

Great little 80's horror, very unique, very original and just simply fun to watch. Great cast full of 80' and 90's legends and Robert Englunds directorial debut.When a nerdy kid calls a psychic hot line ran by the devil (or something - you decide) he is possessed and all his wishes come true and he takes on all of the people who bully him and cause his life to be a miserable one. His cousin finally steps in and realizes that he must destroy this possessed kid.Not a bad film, I was disappointed to see a mistake within the first two minutes. When a detective is blown up in a phone booth and his body flies back the rope is very visible. So major obvious flaws always make me knock points off, not that I am literally taking points.The production was decent and I thought this was one of those 80's horrors that stand up and competes really well with all thats out there. It's about a number you call on a "horrorscope". The number will give you anything you want, but gets mad if you don't use its gifts and let the evil take you over.Stephen Geoffreys did an amazing job acting here, hes one of my faves from the 80's. His dorky laugh and cool charm, what's not to like. He reminds me so much of Jack Nicholsan. Here he is the main guy possessed and he goes from nerd to quick witted, one liners via Satan so fast. He's truly one of the best actors in the 80's "teen" scene, yet he was way older I am sure. With movies like The Gate and Fright Night you cant go wrong with him. Patrick O'Bryan made his acting debut and will return in the movies sequel as well, but he didn't do much more in this biz. A lot of great acting here with stars from many of my old faves. Sandy Dennis (Parents, God Told Me To), Leslie Dean (Freddy's Dead), JJ Cohen (Back to the Future trilogy), Darren Burrows (Cry Baby) and Robert Picardo (Burbs, Munchies, Innerspace).Brian Helgeland and Rhet Topham did some pretty good writing here, they wrote some cool movies from that era and this is one of the best. I especially loved how evil it gets for a while. Geoffreys got evil and they showed him as a sex object as he does a séance in the middle of a pentagram and then the part with the spiders in the TV dinner was creepy... Good little film 6 out of 10 stars.

In "976-EVIL," Satan's on the line and if you value your soul, you better not pick up. Or so it goes in this lame-brained horror flick directed by Mr. Freddy Krueger himself, Robert Englund, which includes a script written by Brian Helgeland and Rhet Topham. With Englund's first time behind the camera, you would expect something truly unique or at least something close to being even remotely frightening like "A Nightmare on Elm Street" (1984), but when things get interesting "976-EVIL" devolves into typical slasher/possession stuff and thus joins the ranks of so many other "B" horror movies from the 1980s.The movie at least has an inventive premise: dialing the title phone number puts you on a hot line with the Devil himself. A creepy voice (Englund) on the other end gives you some advice (your "horror-scope") and it pays off, but usually at a price: your soul.Teenage biker-punk Spike (Patrick O'Neal), an indebted gambler, is able to use the words of wisdom bestowed upon him and break free of his poker habit before the hot line's influence has a chance to truly take hold of him. His cousin, shy and repressed Hoax ("Evil Ed" Stephen Geoffreys), isn't so lucky. Bullied and unlucky with the ladies, he dials 976-EVIL and before you know it, the otherwise good boy with good morals goes from fundamentalist Christian to practicing Satanist in the time it takes for you to dial that evil number. Now a full-fledged psychopath possessed by the Devil, he soon starts growing jet-black fingernails and scales and speaking in an ever-creepy Satanic voice who has a tendency of dropping painfully unfunny one-liners that mostly fall flat on their face.Of course with a title like "976-EVIL," you could only expect the worst from this horror movie. The film starts off good, with one unlucky caller meeting their demise, and then the main characters are introduced but once the scares start coming, it all falls apart. But even then, it takes almost forever for that to even start.Geoffreys, a regular in '80s horror movies like 1985's "Fright Night," seems almost pitch-perfect as the shy kid who stood to gain some confidence with Satanic powers, but comes off instead as another rejected nerd-turned-braindead screen slasher who goes on a murderous rampage against his tormentors. There is one particularly creepy sequence where he's able to manifest a spider TV dinner upon one unfortunate victim. We should have expected better from Mr. Englund and as expected, we got less. And Joe Dante regular Robert Picardo also appears as Mark Dark, the manager of a sleazy phone-sex operation."976-EVIL" - Hang up, fast!3/10