A Masterpiece!

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

The first must-see film of the year.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

What? Why is the rating so low here? It wasn't like this movie even tried to be good! It wasn't like it even tried to tell you it was good! This was a bad movie made to be a bad movie made to entertain you on the basis of it being a bad movie!It achieved that goal. You can't give the movie 3 stars for achieving the goal it set out to.And to ensure it is both bad and entertaining, a cartoon rapes someone. That's right, you have a cartoon raping a human.It's kind of like someone watched "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" and then said "hey, we can do that so much worse. You think that's good? We can make a movie like it that is so bad you'll love it!"And that is exactly what they did. It's a twisted B-rated version of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" only the cartoon are evil and that makes it, not better, but in a category all to its own.It's not trying to scare you and even the jokes aren't trying to make you laugh. It's trying to be a bad movie that entertains you by hitting all the cliche's of the bad movie genre.So, 10 out of 10 stars, it set a goal for itself and achieved it.

Ever reliable Dick Miller plays Burt, owner / operator of a cleaning company. His four very sexy young female employees are dropped off at an old house that - and you can all say it with me now - HAS A DARK HISTORY. The babes never get around to doing very much cleaning, but among the ancient artifacts that they find are a "book of the dead" type of thing. By reading from it, they summon a demon into existence. This demon takes the form of a wolf-like cartoon characterDespite the title, we only ever see one Evil Toon. And writer / co-producer / director Fred Olen Ray never spends nearly as much time exploiting the "Roger Rabbit" hook of combining live action and traditional hand drawn animation as you'd think. Mostly, it's the comely quartet of ladies that is required to carry the movie, and although most of them aren't particularly good as actresses, viewers will still enjoy watching (and ogling) them. Ray does have some fun with this material; some of his dialogue may be patently ridiculous, but he does have his characters repeatedly address tropes and clichés of the horror genre.David Carradine, hired for name value, doesn't do a whole lot until the finale. He's just picking up a paycheck, but Miller is always worth his weight in gold. There's a protracted sequence where he actually watches himself in the Roger Corman classic "A Bucket of Blood". Arte Johnson is mildly amusing as a lecherous neighbor. Among the ladies, well endowed Monique Gabrielle comes off the best. She really does have a knack for playing a "smart, nice" type. Alas, fellow B movie perennial Michelle Bauer is wasted in an extremely brief cameo as Millers' hot to trot young wife.The animation may not be super slick, but the cartoon villain (designed by horror journalist Chas Balun) is a mild hoot. Certainly one major asset is the classy music score by the talented Chuck Cirino.So-so entertainment that doesn't live up to its potential. The sight of our actresses in various stages of undress is obviously the real drawing card.Six out of 10.

This movie essentially begins with 4 young college women being hired to clean a house prior to it being put up on the real estate market. What they don't know until they get there is that the house has a reputation for being haunted. Undaunted the young ladies decide to continue on with their work even though they will have to spend the night in the process. That evening a man named "Gideon Fisk" (David Carradine) knocks on the door and delivers an ancient book to them which upon being read releases a cartoon demon intent on killing all of them. Now rather than reveal any more of this movie and risk spoiling it for those who haven't seen it I will just say that the concept of using animation probably came from the successful film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" which was produced 3 or 4 years earlier. No doubt the director, "Fred Olen Ray" figured that if he threw in some attractive women and used every opportunity to show their breasts that he could make some money from it. The end result is a "bimbo comedy" where acting is basically a side issue that doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things. The funny thing is that it almost worked thanks in great measure to the presence of "Monique Gabrielle" (as "Megan") and Barbara Dare ("Jan"). But as pretty as they were there was no way either of them could lift this movie any higher. No way. Slightly below average.

A bizarre 'B' movie offering from the evergreen Fred Olen Ray. Here we have a horror/tits n'ass movie, combining live action with animation, as seen in 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' (1988).The story has four girls employed as cleaners (!!) staying in a spooky old house for the weekend to tidy things up for the new owners. Three of them are good-time girls with 'big' hair and cut-off denim shorts - the foursome made up by the obligatory bespectacled square, played by soft-core porn actress Monique Gabrielle. The film is low-brow to say the least, but its quite well-made with a reasonable dose of entertainment value. There are lots of breasts on display, particularly Monique's which are quite fantastic, and the film has a self-mocking tone which helps maintain the sense of fun - one girl asks - "Why do these things always have to start with young beautiful co-eds going into the basement?"David Carradine tries to give the film a star name, but he wanders aimlessly around as some bloke from years ago who got involved with a cursed book, which the girls then find. This unleashes a sexually frustrated cartoon demon which proceeds to stalk the female flesh on display.60's Corman stalwart Dick Miller puts in an appearance, and proceedings meander along until the script gives up the ghost. For 'B' movie fans 'Evil Toons' has a surprisingly lot to offer. Production values are good and everything gives the impression of having been made by people whose passion for their work is strong.BEST SCENE - Roxanne's strip dance is good, but Megan's topless scene in front of the mirror is out of the top drawer.