''Evil Laugh'' is a 1986 American
slasher film
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directed and starring Dominick Brascia, Jr. and stars Myles O'Brien, Jerold Pearson, and
Kim McKamy
Ashlyn Gere is an American pornographic film actress who has also performed in mainstream film and television, including appearances on the science fiction television series ''The X-Files'' and '' Space: Above and Beyond''. Gere is an inductee i ...
. The film is about a group of medical students attacked by a masked killer while repairing a building over the weekend.
Plot
A decade ago, an orphanage has been rebuilt after being burned down following accusations of child molestation and abuse from the building's custodian, resulting him to A group of medical students is brought in by pediatrician-turned-doctor to rebuild the building as a foster home, as a psychotic masked assailant stalks them.
Cast
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Kim McKamy
Ashlyn Gere is an American pornographic film actress who has also performed in mainstream film and television, including appearances on the science fiction television series ''The X-Files'' and '' Space: Above and Beyond''. Gere is an inductee i ...
as Connie
* Steven Baio as Johnny
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Tony Griffin
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as Sammy
* Jerold Pearson as Barney
* Myles O'Brien as Mark
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Jody Gibson
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Using the pseudonym "Sasha of the Valley", Gibson operated an "escort agency" in Hollywood, employing ...
as Tina
* Howard Weiss as Mr. Burns
* Karyn O'Bryan as Betty
* Susan Grant as Sadie
* Gary Hays as Jerry
* Hal Shafer as Chief Cash
* Johnny Venocur as Freddy
* Tom Shell as Delivery Boy
* Dominick Brascia as Evil Laugher
Reception
In his overview of horror films from the 1980s, Scott Aaron Stine described the film as "effortless tripe" and that "There is nothing, I repeat, nothing worthwhile or even remotely worthwhile or even remotely memorable about this waste of celluloid."
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American serial killer films
American slasher films
1986 horror films
1986 films
American comedy horror films
American exploitation films
1980s slasher films
American splatter films
1980s American films
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