Clint Brother of Ron Howard plays Stanley Coopersmith, a bullied military cadet who discovers the diary of an excommunicated Spanish monk. Using his Apple PC to translate the diary, he unleashes a malevolent spirit that starts taking revenge on his enemies. Evilspeak is a very silly film, never more so than when a woman is attacked by killer boars while bathing. The BBFC were unimpressed and in March 1984 (the same month that Brother Rons Splash was released in the US) the picture was banned as a Video Nasty. As well as the boar attack, the censors were concerned that the devouring of entrails, a neck snapping and the numerous decapitations would somehow deprave and corrupt the audience, so when the picture was re-released in 1987, it was with nearly 4 minutes of cuts. The film wasnt available again in its uncut form until 2004.
Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'
