Directed by: Kevin Tenney
Want some cheese with that? Or wait a minute... it should probably rather be: Want some extra cheese on top of all that cheese, and maybe some cheese on the side? If you like cheesy 80's horror flicks this is probably the holy grail for you as it has plenty of cheesy stuff in it... I love cheesy movies, but even I have a limit somewhere and this flick might have crossed the line. Well, maybe not totally as I did enjoy it, but god damn it's a cheesy flick! It was the director Kevin Tenney's first movie and he truly went for all the clichés in a supernatural horror flick in the 80's (he wrote the flick as well). There are plenty of jump scares (is that even an expression? hopefully you know what I mean), bad 80's acting and silly looking effects.
Back in my teens I used to have this big Swedish Witchboard poster above my bed, I think it was the same image that was on the UK poster as well, a painting of a very scantily clad Tawny Kitaen with some ghostly hands reaching for her. After having rewatched the movie now I wonder if it wasn't because of ms. Kitaen I had that poster up rather than the movie itself... I do remember liking the movie back then, but trust me when I say that a short nude scene with Tawny was probably all I needed to like this movie as a horny teenager with hormones flying all over the place (I would probably have exploded if I had watched Gwendoline at the time...).
It all starts at a party that Jim (Todd Allen) and Linda (Tawny Kitaen) are throwing. Among the guests are Jim's ex best friend and Linda's ex boyfriend Brandon (Stephen Nichols) - apparently hooking up with your best friend's ex can break a frienship... but, in the movie world it would be worth it for the lovely ms. Kitaen. In the real world I don't think it would be a great idea, rather stay with the best friend and not get beaten up by the not so lovely ms. Kitaen... Ok, back to the story, Brandon has brought with him a Ouija-board to the party - it should preferrably be two people using it by placing the board on their knees and put their hands on the thingy that moves over the letters. So, Brandon enlists Linda to help him contact his dead buddy David - David shows up, but Jim not liking his girl doing this with her ex manages to upset David by acting like an asshole. David splits in a rage and the party has come to a halt.
The next day Linda finds the Ouija board still being at their apartment and she starts using it to contact David on her own (a big no-no as you should never do this alone). She manages to contact David (or is it?) who is very helpful and nice again... meanwhile, at the same time some spooky spirit stuff is going on at the construction site Jim works at when a coworker gets crushed under a big load of construction material. And all of a sudden "David" is starting to scare Linda and even go so far as to attack her, sending her to the hospital.
Jim and Brandon have to work together to save Linda from whatever it is that is terrorizing her. They contact David through another Ouija board and is told that there is another spirit that is the one terrorizing Linda, the evil Malfeitor. And just as the boys get this news they are attacked by Malfeitor and Brandon gets clobbered over the head with an axe and it's bye bye to him... Meanwhile, Linda is now out of the hospital and of course she just can't keep her hands from the board, but this time she gets no response. She decides to take a shower (and yes, here comes the nude scene) and there she gets attacked again. When Jim comes back home the whole place is in a mess and Linda shows up, possessed by the spirit of Malfeitor, holding an axe. She attacks him and right here a cop shows up to get knocked out immediately, but his gun falls to the floor and Jim uses it to shoot the Ouija board to free Linda from Malfeitor's powers.
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