You won't be disappointed!

Waste of time

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

Several youths get lost in the back roads while trying to find a party, and end up in an old dilapidated mansion in the middle of a graveyard. Inside, they discover a ouija board, through which it is foretold that they will never leave the premesis alive.A ghost, haunting the mansion, seeks to harvest their souls so he can entrap the woman of his dreams- in ghost form- for an eternity.The "kids" are attacked by all sorts of monsters, including... were-cats, sh*t demons, a bunch of fiji mermaids, a predator type thing with electro-shock tentacles, skeletor, a spiderwoman, some sort of demon that releases a pulsating field, from her brain, that causes the living to age at an incredibly fast rate, and a hoard of zombies (for good measure).This 80's comedy-horror is cheesy, low budget, and a masterpiece of cult cinema. And it almost never existed! After, originally, having been shot by a pair of directors, under the title Twisted Souls...the guy funding the project fired them...only to hire a porn actress/editor, as director, to finish shooting the film with an entirely different cast, and some additional scenes.You can actually feel the differences in the contributions from the 2 different groups: the original filmmakers, cast and crew; and a former porn star and her group of porn people.The latter would dismember the film from it's original form- so that she and her crew could insert their own additional scenes and special effects (like adding fart noises over the muck men scene, for example)- that are clearly inferior to the work of the original creators.Drama aside- in it's final form- Spookies owes a lot to earlier films like Evil Dead and Hausu...though, it has it's own lame charm that will surely win you over, by the end. It also seems to have influenced a bunch of later films and TV shows, like x-files (fiji mermaids) and possibly also Stephen King's sleepwalkers (among others).When all is said and done, it's the monsters and special effects that make this film so damn awesome. They are incredibly imaginative and extremely well done. There ain't no CGI bullsh*t employed here.And the deaths are badass too! Something else I like, is how all the characters are survivors. No one goes down easy- or without a fight in this. Which resonated with me...as, too often, characters act like a deer in headlights, just standing around waiting to die. Although no one makes it out alive in this film...at least they all go down swinging.Don't make the mistake of turning this off during the first 5 minutes- when it seems like it's going to be a low budget, schlock, piece of crap (during an additional scene added by the porn people)- because, by the end, I guarantee it will have won you over.The creatures and special effects in this are simply amazing, and it contains just the right amount of cheese. Though not perfect- considering it has been dismembered and reformed by lesser visionaries- it is still totally worth checking out this Halloween season (as it just received the limited edition bluray treatment).8 out of 10.

The obscure "Spookies" is very fun to watch. It's the typical '80s slasher flick in which some young people stop at a house that contains an evil entity. The evil entity here is a sorcerer who wants to resurrect his bride. There are some really neat makeup effects, and the spider scene was probably the best. I will say that the flatulent monsters were kind of silly, but the movie as a whole was really fun. Despite what the cover implies, the movie is not about monsters attacking naked women. The soundtrack is about what I expected.OK, so the characters have no depth. Who watches these movies for character development? We watch these flicks to have fun, and there's no shortage of that in "Spookies". It's entertainment for the ages! So just be careful the next time that you play with a Ouija board.

If Spookies feels like the result of two separate unfinished movies badly edited together to create a full length feature, there's a very good reason for that: it is. The film was patched together from an incomplete horror entitled Twisted Souls and some unrelated footage shot at a later date.However, despite this fairly valid reason for being crap, one can't help but feel that, even if Twisted Souls had been completed according to its creator's original vision, it still would have been total garbage: the acting is dire; the basic set-up is highly derivative, being very reminiscent of several much better films such as The Evil Dead and Night of The Living Dead; and the effects are extremely amateurish.Attempting to follow the story amounts to a fairly pointless exercise, since nothing really makes much sense: the muddled plot sees a group of revellers travelling to a creepy old manor house where they inexplicably find themselves battling for survival against zombies, monsters, a lovesick ghoul, his man\cat pet thing, farting muck-men, a possessed woman, a grim reaper with red eyes, a spider/woman, and a couple of ugly kids. Furthermore, what sounds like it might still be a lot of fun, despite the iffy narrative, is actually incredibly dull.For some reason, this film seems to have gathered something of a cult following, and has some surprisingly positive comments here on IMDb. It's a strange old world.

Spookies is a kids nightmare come true. The plot isn't necessarily groundbreaking. A bunch of teenagers find themselves stranded at a mansion full of ghouls,goblins, and monsters. Not exactly original. However, these negative factors don't take away from the films chilling atmosphere. The makeup/special effects were done well for its time. The actors did a decent job with their roles, but were far from golden globe material. Overall this movie is pretty scary, especially for kids looking for a fright on Halloween. Not for everyone but still worth a look if you are interested in these types of indie horror flicks. Rating this movie for what it is: a B horror flick - it deserves 6 stars.