Forever Evil

THE STORY: Most people who have seen this film will tell you that its incredibly bad, that its an affront to all mankind. Even the mysterious Dr. Freex at The Bad Movie Report said "You poor fool" when I told him I had bought a copy of it for 2 bucks. ..and Dr. Freex wrote the screenplay for this movie! While Forever Evil is by no means a great movie I think its fairly entertaining for a b-movie that was made on a pretty low budget. No offense to Dr. Freex, but I think its so cheap its fun to watch in an MST3K kinda way. Also its actually got more originality tan most big budget losers you can rent today.

Our tale begins when Magnus, a fortune teller is confronted by a supernatural being. This creature either kills him or hurts him bad enough that he runs away because after this scene we won't see Magnus again.

Next we go to a cabin in the woods. Marc Denning and his brother Jay are entertaining a few friends in celebration to a new invention they've come up with. The cabin is being sold after this, by Marc's realtor, Parker Nash. Marc's a little down in the dumps since he's just learned that his girlfriend, Holly, is pregnant. But that doesn't stop the good times from rolling and soon Marc, his brother and their buddies are laughing and joking. Holly goes to take a shower and that's when the trouble begins.

Julie finds Holly's bloody body in the shower. Something or someone has ripped the fetus right out of her. Within minutes the group are besieged by a supernatural force. The entity is seen in the hallway, only two large glowing red eyes. Jay is pulled into it, and the other are killed lickity-split. Marc, who almost gets pulled down the hallway and into the creature's maw strikes at it with a knife and escapes. As soon as he is outside he is attacked by an animated cadaver. The zombie-like creature tries to throttle Marc, but he escapes it and makes it to a nearby road. This is when his good luck wears off as he is hit by a car.

Marc awakens in a hospital to discover his brother and friends are dead. The evil force pretty much ripped them all to shreds. A police detective named Leo Ball, interested in the case befriends Marc and they begin working together to get to the bottom of it. (when Marc meets Leo in the hospital cafeteria, Leo offers him a cigarette....um, are you allowed to smoke in hospital cafeterias?) Marc also meets Reggie Osbourne, a woman who had a similar experience a few years before. Reggie, Leo and Marc go to Magnus' house. Leo is a friend of Magnus and says that Magnus contacted him about the danger earlier on. Magnus is gone, however. I don't know if he just left or if the evil entity killed him. ( Personally I like to think Magnus survived, went to Tijauna and is chillin' out in a bar reading fortunes and sayin' "I ain't going back there!") But they find a book about Yog-Kothag and a letter addressed to Leo warning him that "Its coming back".

Yog-Kothag is one of the ancient gods. He was apparently a real dickweed, too, since the other gods got together and kicked his ass off of the earth. Ol' Yoggy can really hold a grudge since he plans on coming back to earth and opening up a can of ancient-god-whoop-ass. Being a skeptic, Leo dismisses the possibility that Yog-Kothag, an ancient demon-god is responsible. But Marc is convinced that it is so. He and Reggie team up to track Yog-Kothag down and destroy it. Leo comes across some clues that might help Marc and Yog-Kothag knows it. Leo is the next victim because of this.

Clues pile up that link Yog-Kothag to a quasar that pulses on an irregular basis and to Parker Nash. Surmising where Yog -Kothag's next murder will take place Reggie and Mark set a trap for him. Apparently Yog-Kothag needs so many people killed before he can return to earth. Marc and Reggie wait in a cabin that is the place of the monster's next strike. They aren't disappointed. The zombie shows up and they have to kill it about three times to destroy it. Marc sets it on fire. He and Reggie go to a hotel near Nash's office. Marc is determined to kill Nash so that this evil will never happen again. Unfortunately the zombie, though worse for wear is in the hotel room and attacks Marc. Reggie escapes and goes right to Nash's office with the intention of killing him. Nash, however expected her. Reggie does shoot him but it has no effect.

Nash explains to her that he has served Yog-Kothag for over one hundred years. The demon made him immortal and Nash is convinced that he will be rewarded greatly when he succeeds in bringing Yog-Kothag back to earth. He even shows her a letter that Leo sent to Marc. The letter contains Nash's birth certificate from the 19th century! He further explains that the zombie, "Alfie" is one of his victims from the past. He uses it to do his killing for him. Since Marc succeeded in destroying Alfie, Nash has now made Marc his new slave. Marc enters the room, under Nash's control. The prerequisite for Yog-Kothag's victims is that they die in terror. Nash orders Marc to kill Reggie.

Luckily for Reggie, Marc's force of will allows him to break Nash's control long enough to stab Nash with a dagger. (Its a magic dagger, some kind of relic that is supposedly deadly to Yog-Kothag). Marc then passes out and Reggie drags him outta the building. the last thing we see is Nash's soul being pulled away by the demon. Yog-Kothag's voice is heard telling Nash that he has failed. Words on the screen let us know that somewhere a man named Nash is screaming.

Okay...lets look at a few things. Was this movie done a low budget: Yes. Was the acting bad?: No, not necessarily...I've seen worse in other b-movies. It was actually pretty good at times, but I wouldn't call it bad. Were the special effects cheap: Hell yeah! Some of them were downright laughable! Was the story stupid: No. It was actually kind of interesting. If this movie had had a bigger budget this movie would have been a helluva lot better.

When it comes down to it, a group of people tried to make a movie. Its no Oscar winner and the road to cheesy movies is paved with like individuals that tried to make a piece of entertainment and it went horribly, unspeakably wrong. But this movie didn't really go that wrong. Dr. Freex himself may not agree with me totally, but I think Forever Evil deserves a look-see by the B-Movie watching public. I, for one, kinda like it.

Best Lines: "Well I got a newsflash...what we're dealing with doesn't give a damn about any law, and thats assuming you could lock it up!"-Mark persuades Reggie to join forces with him in finding and destroying Yog-Kothag.

"That's it? that's all there is to it?"-Reggie's suprise that the zombie guy was easy to kill. Of course he gets right up after she says that and attacks them.

"I got hit with a car, I'm still living...get the gas!"-Mark convinces Reggie that running the Zombie over with her truck didn't kill it.

"I'm a busy man! I can't be expected to go around killing people!"-Parker Nash explains to Reggie why he uses his zombie, "Alfie" to kill people.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?:

1.) After Marc's girlfriend, Holly, is found dead in the shower, the others argue about going into the rest of the cabin to find Julie. The argument is that they shouldn't do that because Julie may be the killer! These guys are friends?! Did they just meet Julie or was she homicidal to begin with? Why think she is the murderer? Especially when Julie could be in danger herself! I think the thought that one of my female friends might be in danger from a killer would supercede the urge to suspect her of murder...unless she just got of jail or the crazy-house or something.

2.)  Apart from dragging firewood across the room what use is Marc's invention? He says its for firefighters and mountaineers. Not knowing much about those professions I ask wouldn't it dislocate a shoulder or something to be pulled up somewhere by your arm?

3.) Mark is right when he notices the points on his map of the murders forms a pentagon in the middle (brrrr....the Pentagon...my most grueling post to date!) but I wonder how anyone could miss the fact that all of the points form a glaringly obvious PENTAGRAM. Seeing how they're hunting a demon guy after all you'd think that'd be a shape they'd recognize.

4.) When Reggie and Marc seemingly destroy the zombie the first time I knew that the physical laws of Movie Land would allow the monster to get up again. After a brief battle they seemingly kill the zombie again! Fine. But when they see the zombie on the road and Reggie runs him over she argues with Marc for a moment about his idea to douse the monster with gasoline and burn it. I hope her school records indicate her apparent lack of critical reasoning skills. Look, honey, its a supernatural being....you've shot it a few times, hit it with a fireaxe and impaled it with a metal fireplace rod-thingie...get with the program! You're going to have to atomize it to stop it! That's pretty standard for destroying "Tubthumping"* monsters!

5.) The Zombie attacks Marc and Reggie one last time in the hotel room they stay in. Marc, though injured drags it away from Reggie with his grappling device. Reggie doesn't even stop to see if Marc needs a little help fighting the undead creature. She just lams outta there! This from a woman who said a few minutes ago that she loves him! Damn....Love IS a battlefield!

NUDITY AND SEX: Holly's nude dead body is seen.

HUH?: Why is it suprising that the records on Parker Nash only go back thirty years? Reggie said he couldn't be a day over forty-five. So there's no records on him when he was 15 and under? So? Maybe his parents raised him abroad. Marc says how can this be in a credit card society...assuming this movie was made in the 80's to 90's time frame, did people use credit cards a lot in the 50's and 60's?

Reggie loves Marc? That came right out of left field! They had a watered down Mulder & Scully** type relationship. I guess the Physics of Movie Land demand that they fall in love.

How'd Reggie's truck get in that Alley behind Nash's building? She parked it on the street but after she escapes Nash, carrying the wounded Marc its in the alley? Is her truck really the Knight 2000***?

THE TALLY: Trust me, I'm not giving this movie a break just because I know Dr. Freex wrote it and I really love his site. I honestly don't think its that bad. Maybe I've developed a thick skin from watching really crappy movies, but Forever Evil is an entertaining b-movie. If you go The Bad Movie Report you can read about the making of this movie. If other b-movies were at least as good as this one, the Inferno would have a harder time finding candidates.

*Tubthumping is a song by Chubawamba. The lyrics say "I get knocked down, but I get up again, you ain't never gonna keep me down!"

**Mulder and Scully are the stars of the hit TV show the X-Files. I'm assuming you knew that unless you've been living on the moon for the last few years.

***The Knight 2000, also known as KITT was the talking supercar from the TV show, Knight Rider.