Evilspeak

Evilspeak
Theatrical poster
Directed byEric Weston
Written byEric Weston
Joseph Garofalo
Produced byEric Weston
Sylvio Tabet
Gerald Hopman
StarringClint Howard
R. G. Armstrong
Joseph Cortese
Claude Earl Jones
CinematographyIrv Goodnoff
Edited byCharles Tetoni
Music byRoger Kellaway
Production
companies
Leisure Investment Company
Coronet Film
Distributed byMoreno Films
Warner Bros.
Release dates
  • August 22, 1981 (1981-08-22) (Japan)
  • February 26, 1982 (1982-02-26) (USA)
Running time
89 min.
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1,000,000

Evilspeak is a 1981 American horror film directed by Eric Weston and co-written by Weston and Joseph Garofalo. The film stars Clint Howard as an outcast cadet named Stanley Coopersmith, who frequently gets tormented by his mates and advisers at a military academy. Upon finding a book of black mass that belonged to the evil medieval Father Esteban, he taps through a computer to conjure Satan and summons spells and demons to get revenge upon his harassers.

The movie was one of the infamous "video nasties" banned in the United Kingdom in the 1980s.