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Evilspeak

Evilspeak is a 1981 American horror film directed by Eric Weston and co-written by Weston and Joseph Garofalo. The film stars Clint Howard as an outcast cadet named Stanley Coopersmith, who frequently gets tormented by his mates and advisers at a military academy. Upon finding a book of Black Mass that belonged to the evil medieval Father Lorenzo Esteban, he taps through a computer to conjure Satan and summons spells and demons to get revenge on his harassers.

The movie was one of the infamous "video nasties" banned in the United Kingdom in the 1980s.

16th-century Spanish Satanist Father Lorenzo Esteban and his followers are told by a priest that they are banished to America and denied God's grace unless they renounce Satan and their evil ways.

Currently, Stanley Coopersmith is a cadet at West Andover military academy. He is an outcast, bullied by classmates for being an orphan, and maltreated by instructors who think him of above average IQ, but inept. While cleaning the church cellar as punishment, he finds a room belonging to Esteban that contains books on black magic. He uses his computer skills to translate one book from Latin into English. This diary includes rituals for performing the Black Mass and a promise from Esteban: "I will return".

Oversleeping the following day, Stanley finds his alarm clock unplugged and his clothing tied in knots by his classmates. This makes him late for class, and his teacher writes him a note to take to the headmaster, Colonel Kincaid. In Kincaid's office, he accidentally leaves the diary on the school secretary's desk, Miss Friedemeyer, who hides it. While Stanley is cleaning the pigsty, she tries to pry the jewels from the book's front cover, which causes the pigs to attack her.

Stanley returns to his dormitory room to find his belongings scattered. Missing his book, he assumes his classmates stole it and confronts them, but they deny any knowledge. Stanley goes to the school's computer lab to research Satanism, but his allotted time runs out before he can complete his research.

Stanley appears in the cellar with computer equipment stolen from the lab. He sets up the computer and checks the requirements for a black mass. He attempts to initiate one, but the computer informs him that he still lacks crucial ingredients: blood and a consecrated host. Reverend Jameson, the church's pastor, nearly discovers him and sends him to the mess. Arriving too late for dinner, he befriends the school's cook, who feeds him and shows him some puppies his dog just gave birth to. Stanley takes the runt of the litter, names him Fred, and hides him in the cellar.

Stanley steals the host from the church. He attempts the ritual, and figures in robes with pig faces appear. Stanley is knocked unconscious; these are his classmates in disguise. After they leave, Stanley's computer tells him that the ritual is incomplete. He accidentally wakes the drunken caretaker, Sarge, who accuses him of being a thief and attacks him. An unseen force twists Sarge's head completely around, breaking his neck. Stanley discovers a catacomb containing Esteban's crypt. He hides Sarge's body.

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