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Guest reviewer Lee Broughton returns with an assessment of Robert Englund’s offbeat video rental store favourite 976-evil. Satanic panic ensues when two teenage cousins are foolish enough to start using an automated telephone “horrorscope” service. Dialling 666 just might be granting the pair a direct line to the Devil himself and there’s bound to be a hefty price to pay for that. Sandy Dennis and Stephen Geoffreys bring a touch of class to this low budget but unpredictable and compelling 1980s horror show.

976-Evil

Region B Blu-ray

Eureka Entertainment

1988 / Colour / 1:85 widescreen / 92 min. / Street Date, 19 October 2020 / £17.99

Starring: Stephen Geoffreys, Pat O’Bryan, Sandy Dennis, Jim Metzler, Lezlie Deane, J. J. Cohen, Maria Rubell, Robert Picardo.

Cinematography: Paul Elliott

Production Designer: David Brian Miller

Film Editor: Stephen Myers

Original Music: Thomas Chase, Steve Rucker

Written by Rhet Topham, Brian Helgeland

Produced by Lisa Hansen

Directed by Robert Englund

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