Really Surprised!

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

I wanted to like this movie but there are several problems with it:1. It is basically two separate movies spliced together as one. The runaway kid and the party goers were never meant to be in the same film. 2. The characters are all one dimensional, 80's morons. Even the kid is a dumb ass. The drifter was the smartest character telling the kid to go home and is then killed right after which feels like the movies way of saying NO SMART CHARACTERS OR ONES WITH ANY KIND OF SUBSTANCE ALLOWED! 3. There's no backstory whatsoever. It feels like the film starts out in media res. Billy already ran away, the party goers are already driving, etc. Would have been good to see any kind of development in terms of a plot.4. Some of the effects were good but for the most part they were sub par. By the mid eighties effects, while not as advanced as today, were still able to be so much better than what was shown here. This was an independent film so I can understand how money can be part of the problem. 5. Everybody dies. I hate horror movies where everybody dies. I'm in no way suggesting that every horror movie has to have a "We survived" happy ending. But someone surviving makes the experience all the more worth it (at least for me). Otherwise it's like, "I just watched a movie where no one survived till the end...okay."Spookies is a film that could have been so much better if it had better writing and did not have issues between its creators and financial backers. That is the problem independent films often face. If the person(s) paying for the film to be made, who rightfully should have a say in the creative process, and the creators themselves do not get along it will effect the product. Moustapha Akkad financially backed the movie Halloween and thus became part of the creative process. However, he wanted the film to be the best it could be as did Trancas and John Carpenter. I'm sure there were rough spots in that partnership but in the end everyone worked together to create a masterpiece that has withstood the test of time.To sum up that last paragraph, Halloween is the success story of when financial backers and creators work cohesively and Spookies is the failure that occurs when the opposite happens. And to this date Spookies has not even received a DVD release and we're already in the 4K market. Even Troll 2, the best worst movie of all time, got a Blu Ray release. Spookies, while it tries, ultimately does not hold up.

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.