Bad Movie Thursday

Viewing Date: 11/20/25

Starring: David Carradine, Dick Miller, Monique Gabrielle

Plot: Burt has a cleaning company and hires four women to clean an isolated house. They find an old book, a dagger and a soul shred and when one of them, Megan, reads an incantation, she unleashes an evil beast in our world. (via IMDB)

Rules

• David Carradine lurking or flashing his cloak
• “Hell House” or “curse”
• References to the book
• Lightning

Quotes

• “I’m too scared, my brain won’t work.”

Viewer Quotes

• “They were so freaked out they left everything behind- even their cd player.”
• “I feel like that is my stomach late at night.”
• “We can move around a couple of boxes and call it a day”

What We Learned

• Only 90 seconds of a single “toon” is enough to call a movie “Evil Toons”
• The going rate for a full weekend of cleaning in 1991 was $100- and it was entirely normal to be confined to the dirty house all night as part of the job.

Final Take

We’ve seen worse movies on bad movie Thursday, but in some ways this was one of the most disappointing. It did have a lot of quintessential elements (some clever dialogue, lots of nudity, bit parts for semi-recognizable actors, campiness), but if you’re going to ride the premise of murderous cartoons, you should actually have some in the film.
Instead of a spoof of Who Framed Roger Rabbit? fused with trashy late night B-film horror, you only get the later. The result is one scene of the ‘demon’ toon, and the rest was standard demonic-possession as the cop-out antagonist.

Overall, it is entertaining, but be warned- it is egregious false advertising.