This not a 5. That is just overrating it. This is 1. It is not scary. The story line is awful. The acting is awful. The ending is awful. I do not know why people like this movie. It is just an awful movie. The Evil dead is a very scary movie. And this is awful. Do not wast your time. Do not wast your money. Do not see this movie. It is a pooh movie. It should been called the poopies. Because it is pooh. If you want to get scared see Evil dead II. This is crappy crappy pooh. Why did it get a 5 I will never know. It is supposed to be funny?. It is not. It is a big pile of pooh pooh.

So this film was a low budget project that was shelved and patched up by someone else with additional footage. The acting is standard, the effects are old school but you know what it has atmosphere and its weird as hell. So I like it, even more than all those crappy Michael Bay remakes, even better than the Paranormal Activities and the Paranormal Entities and the Devil Insides etc.The story is sparse to say the least, also it doesn't make much sense. Think Phantasm or City of the Living Dead and you get the idea. A kid is alone in the woods, its his birthday and his parents forgot so he has run away from home. He talks to a weirdo who hangs around in trees, once the boy goes the man is murdered by what appears to be some sort of blue cat man in a strange dinner suit, who proceeds to follow the boy. The basic plot revolves around an old man who lives in an old house in the woods, trying to revive his dead wife with people souls, only to find when she wakes up, she doesn't want him. What a bitch! ha So then we meet a motley crew of people looking to party pull up outside an old house, why these people decided to hang out together I have no idea, they are so random.So the boy finds the house and finds a room set out as a party for him for his birthday, he is delighted but finds a head in the cake box and runs off to the woods, only for the blue cat thing to catch him and bury him alive... weird and a little disturbing. So we are left with these party goers who don't really have a party. What follows is a series of set pieces that are weird, funny and not at all predictable. There's the mud men in the basement, a disgusting mutant that fires electric currents, the witch in the caverns, the little vampire kid and most memorable, the spider lady. So if you like some old school 80s weirdness I would recommend.

The first time I tried watching "Spookies" was on a rough looking ex-rental video tape and I barely got through the opening sequence due to its bad quality. So in the bin it went, and my hunger for seeing it only grew. Until recently I luckily happened upon a DVD copy of it.A group of young adults driving around looking for a place to party stumble across old mansion in the woods. Unknowingly to them it's occupied by an evil sorcerer and one by one they're picked off to help revive his dead bride."Spookies" is downright crazy, senseless and spontaneous low-rent 80s sludge, which is so goofy it's too much fun to pass up. Everything about it is hysterical. I guess you just have to go with its unhinged tone and take it as a creaky haunted house ride, where you don't know what awaits you at every turn. Since it's a patchwork of two films, some executed passages might be clunky and never truly capture its imaginative concept and ideas, but at least the original (but not perfect) screenplay makes for an enjoyable, if confounded monster mash. While heavy on things going on, the short running time breezes by until it comes to it's somewhat eccentric, but dragged out climax. Also it breathes some striking atmospheric touches and positional placements -- especially the use of lighting within the creepy rundown mansion. What I did like is that while it can seem silly, still it has a cruel, grim side that's perfectly pitched by the opening sequences involving a young teenage boy.Although where it actually caught me off guard, was with its use of visual effects and make-up FX. The low-budget shows within the set-designs and props, but the creations (a whole bunch of ghouls) and effects (optical lights and splitting heads) are vividly creative and extremely well delivered. Not so the erratic music score… talk about random and kooky. But then again it should fit its style. The performances are gawkily over-the-top (with Felix Ward taking top honours) or woodenly blank with the typical character fodder evident, but the script while amusing remains muffled and daft.Cheapjack, but mindlessly entertaining 80s horror comedy, where anything goes.

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.