Review of Spookies

Spookies (1986)
2/10
What (not) to do if you realize your movie isn't long enough.
13 June 2021
Okay, this movie has a reputation as having been completed as a film, when the producers realized that they didn't have a long enough film to release to theaters. So rather than call the original cast together for reshoots, as they might want more money or something, just write a bunch of scenes with unrelated characters, somehow shoehorn them into the story, and then hope it doesn't turn into an incoherent mess.

Oh, wait, no, it turns into an incoherent mess, anyway. The spliced scenes are so bad, they look like they have no business even being in there. Most of it involves mugging by a werewolf henchmen, who was holding all the doors shut when the doors suddenly closed. That actually made the movie less scary. None of this really worked, and that no one had the guts to say so is kind of sad.
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