Nomination Year: 2011
SYNOPSIS: As the opening text tells us, a fiend is a spirit that animates a corpse and
then must continue to kill in order to maintain its human appearance. Well,
a fiend moves in next door to a young couple and people start dying left and
right. The husband immediately suspects his odd neighbor, a music teacher
named Longfellow. He's right.
Bryan Cassidy
Smithee Award Nominations
Most Ludicrous Premise |
The Legend of the Fiend Gary reads a book he bought in the occult shop and learns
all about the fiend. And how there was a fiend named Dorian way back when.
Say, wasn't Longfellow's cat named Dorian?
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Worst Special Effect |
With Fiends Like This, Who Needs Enemas? Little Scottie finds a sword on the wall and stabs the fiend. The fiend yells tremendously and turns back into the wiggly red ghost,
who flies through the STARS and vanishes.
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Acting Appropriately Stupid |
Fryed Little Scottie sees the fiend act suspicious and go into a drain pipe.
Since the proper thing to do when half a dozen people in the immediate area
have been killed is to follow the creepy guy, that's just what he does. And
on the other side, he sees Longfellow meet with Mr. Frye. Why is Frye
there? Let me paraphrase. "Gosh, Mr. Longfellow, I know you have no alibi
for the latest little girl's death practically in your backyard, but why did
you have me lie to the police about your whereabouts at the time of the
murder, and why did you ask me to meet you in the middle of the woods
alone?" I think you can guess the rest.
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Directors
Director |
Claim to Fame |
Don Dohler |
Creator of Cinemagic film
magazine. His short list of directorial
attempts is a Smithee goldmine. |
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