Evils of the Night – 1985 – United States
Human-like aliens in glittery silver jumpsuits invade a “secluded college town”. They need the bodies of young people for their experiments, so they hire two dumb mechanics to abduct college students. The aliens pay the mechanics in handfuls of quarters that are supposed to be gold coins. The kidnapped college students are taken to an abandoned hospital, and when they try to escape, the aliens shoot them with laser-emitting jewelry. One group of young people fights back. They become trapped in the mechanics’ shop, and they attack their abductors with a drill, an air compressor, and a hydraulic jack. When the mechanics are killed, the aliens leave Earth and suffer no repercussions for their evil deeds.
Evils of the Night is reminiscent of a 1950s teen sci-fi movie. The aliens are old people (one is played by David Carradine), and only young people can stop them. There are lots of scenes in laboratories full of strange equipment. Some of the special effects, especially the lasers, even look they are from the 50s. However, the movie’s copious amount of sex and gore is definitely from the 80s, as is its soundtrack of synthesized pop music.
For the first 45 minutes of Evils of the Night, college students camp, play pranks on each other, talk about sex, and have sex. The women talk like valley girls and don’t wear bras. There is lots of nudity. In the movie’s second half, the same college students struggle to survive as the alien’s hired thugs molest them and murder them with power tools. Everyone fights incompetently and the gore effects look silly. A man has his shoes tied together so that he cannot escape as a car is slowly lowered on him. Another man has his brains blown out his ear by a pressurized air hose.
Evils of the Night is made for teenagers, but even teenagers will think it’s dumb. Undoubtedly, real teenagers would fare much better against the movie’s bumbling villains.
Rating: 4/10 Shrunken Heads. The women’s hairstyles are huge and finely sculpted.
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