Ok first things first. I have to cop to something, I was totally duped into putting
Evil Laugh atop my most wanted title list by what I read about this turdburglar on an internet movie database...that shall remain nameless. See I was doing some cross referencing in search of obscure Slasher Titles to add to my already vast and expansive collection when I stumbled across this intriguing little title."
Evil Laugh??Why, I've Never heard of it." My interest peeked I mashed click on the Viewers Comments button and was surprised when I read that some people considered this shitcake somewhat of a creative inspiration for the movie
Scream.Now as I have stated before I hate
Scream with the fiery hot intensity of one thousand suns and any ammunition I can use to debase and ridicule it is always welcomed especially if said ammo is in the form of "another movie with the same premise made many years earlier".
So, needless to say Evil Laugh immediately became a "HOT" item on my want list. I searched high and low at every Mom-n-Pop video store I could find. Nothing doing. I constantly looked for it on Ebay. No Dice. I hoped it would be showing on late night cable one night. Not a chance. More and more it was looking as if Evil Laugh was the dead sea scroll of Slasher movies. That is until I happened into a Suncoast Motion Picture Company store at the local mall one day and found it in the BARGAIN BIN for like $4.99 on DVD. Yay and verily friends of the website and purchase it I did. I was so stoked with my luck in fact that I tip toed out of the store like the guy in the Warner Bros cartoon who finds that singing fucking frog.
Upon arrival home I immediately unwrapped my bounty, slapped it in the disc tray, mashed PLAY and sat back fully expecting something of a lost cheesy classic. Unfortunately, I was.... ABSOLUTELY AND COMPLETELY WRONG!! See Evil Laugh is not a lost cheesy classic, no, it's actually ...um... how do I put this... well it's...90 MINUTES OF SOUPY DOG SHIT!! that's what it is. Late eighties crapola with not nary enough blood, breasts or bedlam to satisfy even the least discriminating of Slasher palates.
Easily one of the WORST Slasher movies I have ever screened for this website, and thats saying something given the fact that I've reviewed Don't Go in The Woods, The Prey, Shadows Run Black, Blood Tracks and Satan's Blade among others. This movie screams " Neutered by the MPAA" from the mountaintops with it's utter lack of any on screen kills like no other I've ever seen. Please someone explain to me what the point of having a movie about a killer in it not show anyone actually being killed is again. Agggghhh!!! Yeah but before I fly off the handle ranting and raving about how much biological bilgewater every single swinging Slasher movie made post 1984 tends to inhale I better drop some plot synopsis on your unsuspecting arses...
Opening shot on a California looking hacienda as an aggravated real estate agent bitches and moans about them DAMN KIDS and their infernal vandalism shenanigans. As he does this we're introduced to Victims #1 and #2 perceptively. Victim #1 is a doctor who wants to buy said California looking hacienda and #2 is some N.A.F (Non-Acting Fuck) delivery simp who are both dispatched in kind OFF SCREEN. So far this flick is not earning and brownie points WHATSOEVER by shying away from the red sauce I can tell you of that.
Next we're whisked off to the open road where three medical students (yeah right, look at these three idiots)on their way to the California loooking hacienda, are fixing their flat tire. Shenanigans and asorted hijinx ensue including bad jokes, shitty acting, chessy 80's tuneage and a "Whoops I just pissed on a biker's forehead" scene that ...well...that's just ...FUCKING POINTLESS!!
Yada Yada Yada so on and so forth ....when soon after all the clichéd trappings of the slasher sub-genre conspire to get the body count alone in the house without any possible way of contacting the authorities we catch the back story from young virginal Connie (Hmmm,I wonder if she'll survive). Seems the California looking hacienda that they are puffin blunts and performing pre-marital sex in was once an orphanage, an orphanage for which a man named Martin worked as a custodian. One night Martin misplaced his marbles and went on a spree of wholesale orphan slaughter, slitting throats and stabbing guts until every parentless bastard in the place was dead, which I might add would have been a MUCH BETTER MOVIE than the one they actually filmed and released here, but that's beside the point. After Martin was killed by authorities...ALLEDGEDLY... the orphanage was closed and the wards of the state we're all tossed out into the cold dark world with nowhere to call home. Of course this would be the catalyst that brought the body count to the California looking hacienda in the first place. It seems Jerry, Connie?s beau, intended to re-open the orphanage so unwanted offspring from far and wide would have a warm, safe place to pine away about someday having mommies and daddies to call there very own.Of course before they re-open said orphanage why not have a raging kegger with plenty of stupid young folk,blonde bimbos and other assorted wastes of DNA to celebrate the culmination of your WE'LL DO IT FOR THE CHILDREN dreams.
