Despite Rachel calling this the "worst film" she'd ever seen when she wandered into a screening back in 2011, the schlockfest that is Evil Toons has a special place in my heart.
Not only did I review it for our local paper when it was first released on VHS, but it even merited a mention in my university dissertation about the role of women in trash cinema... and also features an all-too brief cameo by the wonderful Michelle Bauer (star of the infamous Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers).A horror-comedy - with a ridiculously large quota of unclad flesh on display and OTT sound effects - this is the simple story of a gaggle of attractive young ladies (students at Lovecraft's Miskatonic University if you listen carefully!) hired to clean-up an abandoned mansion and who accidentally release a demonic "cartoon" from an ancient tome.
The demon quickly kills one of the girls, possesses her - topless - form... and hilarity ensues.
Evil Toons is beer-and-pizza, braindead, slapstick, low-brow entertainment at its finest with a plot that doesn't really make sense used as a flimsy excuse to dress attractive women in flimsy outfits and have them running around for an hour-and-a-half.
This is not the sort of film you watch by accident, the DVD cover alone should tell you what to expect, so there's no excuse for coming away from Evil Toons disappointed.
A true masterpiece of harmless nonsense from Fred Olen Ray, with deliriously silly performances from Dick Miller (including a great in-joke where his character is watching an old Dick Miller movie) and David Carradine.
And, of course, Rachel has walked in on many far worse movies than this in subsequent years.