Evil Toons (1992)

A Killer What?

Despite the fact that the title is clearly pluralized there is only one evil toon in this movie and it has maybe a whopping 5 minutes of screen time. It’s a demon spirit from a sort of dollar store brand Necronomicon. The book features a cruddy rendering of a wolf monster, summoned by an incantation in the book to appear as a cruddy cartoon wolf monster.

The wolf attacks and kills one of our leads and takes on her form to kill others. The wolf isn’t seen again until the end of the film when it’s released briefly.

Is It Any Good?

Hell no! The best way I could describe Evil Toons is Night of the Demons but less good, or Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-o-Rama but less good, or The Hazing but less good. The takeaway here is that this is like a ripoff of an Evil Dead ripoff and by the second generation of ripping off all the fun has been wrung out of the idea.

A group of young women are taken to clean out a creepy old mansion where we saw David Carradine commit suicide a scene earlier. Late the first night Carradine shows up and presents the women with a book bound in human flesh. The virginal nerd of the group (Monique Gabrielle, probably best known as the princess from Deathstalker II) manages to translate it unwittingly releasing a demonic being in the form of a cartoon wolf who kills the designated promiscuous member of the group (adult film actress Madison Stone) who then begins killing various people. Also Dick Miller’s in this.

Evil Toons is billed as a “parody” of haunted house movies but there aren’t a whole lot of actual jokes featured in the movie unless the joke is just how much of a lazy soft-core porn this movie is in spite of it ostensibly being a horror movie.

The acting is atrocious but never speak poorly of porn acting again as Madison Stone as the film’s villain Roxanne is easily the most magnetic and talented performer in this movie who isn’t Dick Miller. And yes, I know that means I’m throwing shade on David Carradine but he has the weakest excuse for a walk-on roll in this one, they could have just put a cardboard standee on a skateboard and rolled it out for all he contributes to this movie.

This movie and Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-o-Rama are pretty equal in cheese factor, bad acting, and gratuitous nudity but at least Full Moon’s movie had some charm beyond its flaws, Evil Toons is just a dud. So in this one instance Charles Band outdid Roger Corman.

Watch, Toss, or Buy?

Toss it from a great height. Ticks and Blades are out of print and this has a fancy Blu-ray release?!