Excellent adaptation.

best movie i've ever seen.

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

A choice example of the horror film during the early '80s, EVILSPEAK is a wacky and delightful mumbo-jumbo shocker which boasts a sterling performance from weirdo Clint Howard (TICKS) in one of his few leading roles. The clichéd plot instantly rips off CARRIE with a gender-bending variation on the central theme: a boy at military school is tormented and abused by fellow pupils and teachers alike, so takes revenge by summoning down the wrath of Satan upon them. The best method to do this? By using his badly dated '80s computer, of course! One of the few films to contain an evil computer as one of the leading characters, EVILSPEAK makes great and cheesy use of this premise to spread some maximum mayhem come the finale.Before the gory conclusion we are treated to a fairly slow-paced film which attempts to be serious – making it all the more amusing to watch. Enjoyment is heightened by the over-the-top efforts of a cast all striving to outdo themselves – from the Nazi history teacher to the cruel P.E. coach and the dumb jocks who make Clint's life a misery. Two genuinely good performances are given by the underused old-timer R.G. Armstrong as the drunken "Sarge" and Howard himself as Coopersmith, the put-upon orphan who finds himself possessed by Satan. Howard's acting is damned good and he holds interest during many of the slow spots. Keep your eyes out for creepy Richard Moll in another effectively evil performance. The music score, kind of an over-the-top variation of the music from THE OMEN, adds to the entertainment value immensely.EVILSPEAK's off-kilter approach to the material makes it more entertaining than many similarly low-budget slasher films doing the rounds at the time. This is a film where evil is pixelated on a computer screen in many colourful and cool interludes. Where an attractive actress is gored to death by killer hogs in her bathtub after a gratuitous nude scene. Where a man is thrown vertically upwards to be impaled on a chandelier. Where a guy's head twists around back to front in a cheap EXORCIST imitation. On top of this we get some cheesy gore scenes involving people being decapitated by swords, a heart ripped out of a chest and much much more, scenes which have been jarringly cut out of the film in even the US version – the only flaw the film contains. I would pay good money to watch the uncut Canadian release of this cheese classic. EVILSPEAK is an always-involving "possession" style horror film, worth watching alone for the fiery climax in church which has to be seen to be believed.

An army cadet is bullied by four other students and some authority figures. One day he is sent to clean the old church basement as a punishment and, while there, he finds a secret room which contains an ancient Satanic Mass book. He discovers that passages from it can reincarnate a 16th century Satanist called Esteban. Using a computer, he revives Esteban and has bloody revenge on all those from the academy who have wronged him.Evilspeak was another early 80's horror movie that found itself onto the UK video nasty list. These were the films considered so offensive that they threatened the moral fabric of Britain back in the day. As a result it was banned and, naturally, has benefited ever since from the notoriety. Like most on that list it's difficult to understand what all the fuss was about with this one. If anything it proves that the censors back then were a spectacularly over-sensitive and humourless group of people. Because it's well-nigh impossible to see how they could have thought anyone could have taken this film seriously enough to then go out and commit acts of violence. This is a film about a possessed computer after all. It features a horde of man-eating pigs and has a climax where the hero floats through the air wielding a big sword. To my knowledge, none of these things has ever cropped up in the news in the years since Evilspeak was released.How is it as a film? It's fun, if nothing too impressive. It takes it's time to get to the horror stuff to be fair, although this does allow for more character development. The main guy Cling Howard (Ron's brother) is pretty decent and is a guy that's easy to root for. The film is essentially a nerd revenge flick and the bullies are an appalling bunch of cretins. So you are willing them to be dispensed with in as nasty a way as possible. And to be fair, the climax is pretty good with all manner of gory mayhem ensuing. Evilspeak is kind of a hybrid of Carrie with early 80's computer technology…with demon pigs thrown in for good measure. It's one of those horror films from the time that is kind of crazed but pretty imaginative, so it's easy to get onside with this one.

In my personal opinion, this film is absolutely excellent. The perfect mix of teen angst and satanic horror. The last fifteen minutes (or so)need to be seen to be believed.Mainly, it is just about a military school loser who finds an old book whilst on punishment duty, whilst translating the book he finds it works with his computer and becomes an instruction manual for black mass. Which, due to the revenge he wants on his colleagues, performs in the altar room and resting place of Esteban, a Spanish satanic priest who proclaims that he...will...return.The way it is set out reminds me of a Dario Argento film, how it is slow to begin with, but there is consistency but not plenty of kills. But it all pays off in the final moments, especially in this film, a levitating satanic follower with an awesome sword! I can not say enough good things about this film, how Clint Howard makes a sympathetic victim of bullying, to how Bubba is the perfect bully, to how Esteban and his sword looks totally awesome.The only thing that Pisses me off, is that it only gets a 5.0, it deserves much better, this is for the people looking for something different and enjoyable, not for those who want to be scared, this is not that type of film.I F##king Love this film, it is the best horror film, PERIOD!

Following in Carrie White's footsteps, meek military academy student Stanley Coopersmith (Clint Howard) wreaks bloody revenge on the bullies who are making his life a misery. After discovering an old Satanic tome in the basement of the academy's chapel, he uses a school computer to translate the text within. By reciting these words, and with the computer serving as a portal for demonic forces, Coopersmith is able to transform himself into a freaky, floating 'angel of death' and mercilessly hunt down his tormentors.One of the better titles to be condemned as a video nasty in the 80s, Evilspeak is actually fairly tame viewing for much of it's running time, giving Daily Mail readers and their ilk hardly anything to get het up about until the film almost reaches the hour mark; this time is spent getting the audience to fully empathise with poor old Stanley, who is taunted, beaten, and humiliated by his peers, and treated unfairly by the staff at the academy. After that, though, it's splatter time!Barring a brief decapitation in the pre-credits sequence, the film's first juicy moment arrives when Coopersmith's computer twists the head of a drunken would-be rapist Sarge (R.G. Armstrong) until it is facing backwards; soon after that, there's an even gorier scene in which tarty secretary Miss Friedemeyer (Lynn Hancock) is gored to death by pigs whilst taking a shower (we even get a shot of the hungry hogs yanking out her intestines).Director Eric Weston briefly takes time out from the nastiness for a delightfully tacky beauty pageant in which all of the contestants are voluptuous teenagers in teeny bikinis (Suzy is sweet sixteen and wants to be a body stocking model, informs the academy's lecherous coach), before giving Coopersmith the final impetus to unleash hell on his tormentors: his pet dog is killed by head bully Bubba!Boiling with rage, Stanley gets the human blood he requires to complete his ritual (by impaling one of his teachers on a chandelier), traps his wicked classmates in the academy's chapel, and proceeds to teach them all a lesson by hacking at them with a huge sword. Skulls are crushed, heads are lopped off, blood gushes freely, and the pigs make another appearance to help Stanley deal with any stragglers.With its efficient direction from Weston, chilling Omen-style soundtrack, over-the-top splatter, gratuitous teenage eye-candy, bloody shower scene, fiery climax, and enthusiastic performances from all involved, Evilspeak is a solid piece of trashy 80s horror fun.7.5 out of 10, rounded up to 8 for IMDb.