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 Released: 1988
This underrated teen-revenge horror film starring Stephen Geoffreys (Fright Night) was the directorial debut of Robert Englund, best known as Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare on Elm Street series. Geoffreys plays Hoax, a picked-on nerd who lives with his religious-nut mother Lucy (the marvelous Sandy Dennis). One day Hoax calls a 976-line for a "Horrorscope," and the demonic voice at the other end starts giving him wicked advice. Before long, he has killed his brother's girlfriend with tarantulas, slashed the face of a teen tough with his newly-sprouted talons, and gutted several of his tormentors. Only a well-meaning journalist and a sexy schoolmarm can stop the now-demonic Hoax before he sends the whole neighborhood straight to Hell. Granted, the screenplay is rather confused and slow-moving, but Geoffreys and Dennis are great, the effects work by Kevin Yagher is skillful, and this is one of the few teen-horror films with characters that are actually interesting. Look for Robert Picardo (The Howling) in a fun cameo as the diabolical Mark Darke. After a brief stint as a teen star, Geoffreys went on to appear in gay porn films as "Sam Ritter." Robert Firsching
Stephen Geoffreys - Hoax
Jim Metzler - Marty Palmer
Patrick O'Bryan - Spike
Maria Rubell - Angella Martinez
Sandy Dennis - Aunt Lucy
Jim Thiebaud - Rags
Gunther Jensen - Airhead
Darren E. Burrows - Jeff
Robert Picardo - Mark Dark
Cynthia Szigeti - Female Operator
Paul Willson - Mr. Michaels
Joe Slade - John Doe
Demetre Phillips - Sgt. Bell
Bert Hinchman - Coroner
Christopher Metas - Cashier
Joanna Keyes - Suzie's Mother
Jim Landis - Paramedic #2
J.J. Cohen - Marcus
Greg Collins - Mr. Selby
Don Bajema - Deputy
Rene Assa
Roxanne Rogers - Waitress
J.J. Johnston - Virgil
Tom McFadden - Minister
Wendy J. Cooke - Gang Girl
Lezlie Deane - Suzie
Ed Corbett - Santa Claus
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