976 EVIL II: The Return
976-EVIL 2
976-EVIL 2: The Astral Factor
Astral Factor
976 Chiamata per il Diavolo 2 [Italian]
Astrikos Paragon [Greek]
La Ligne du Diable 2 [French]
La Llamada del Diablo 2: El Regreso [Spanish]
Maniático Nocturno [Spanish]
Perseguição Demoníaca [Portuguese]
Tagline(s):
This time Satan returns the call.
Call If You Dare!
Nomination Year: 2001
SYNOPSIS:
At a small Californian community college, co-eds are getting murdered at an alarming rate. The prime suspect is the dean, but the slayings continue even when he's placed behind bars. The reason is that a Satanic 976 "Horrorscope" hotline has given him the power to astrally project. A gorgeous blonde named Robin is caught up in the plot when approached by a wandering occult biker named Spike (the survivor of the first 976-EVIL). She and Spike are the only ones who know the truth, and they must kill the killer, or be killed themselves.
Brigitte Neilsen only agreed to be in the film because she lost a pool-hall bet with director Jim Wynorski.
Bryan Cassidy
Smithee Award Nominations
Deus Ex Machina
Punched by an Angel
I don't even know why she's looking for Spike here at these cliffs, since he's supposed to be on a highway miles away. Suddenly Grubeck's got her! Just as suddenly, Spike shows up and saves the day! Well, at least we thought it was Spike. It's really Spike's "ghost" or "angel" or whatever, not that we care.
Don't ask me how he punched the bad guy. Or why she seemed to be okay with her boyfriend suddenly dissolving into multicolored lights.
Best One-Liner
It's a Zombieful Death
Grubeck appears as a TV pitchman for a miraculous remote...but it's a gag. He uses his psychic powers to suck...Robin's friend Paula into the TV! She finds herself a background character in It's a Wonderful Life (which, to be honest, is done very well). But...alas, it's a ZOMBIE version of the holiday classic.
Zuzu proclaims, "Every time you hear a bell, a zombie takes a soul to Hell!" The crowd turns ugly (literally). Paula screams in terror and backs away...but cute little Zuzu kills her.
*Bong!* *Bong!* THE END.
Acting Appropriately Stupid
Hello? Anybody Home?
Okay. You're not supposed to be in that office; you sneak around furtively. You know that the villain is a Satanic phone line. The phone rings with an eerie echoing sort of sound. What do you do? Hello?
I mean, even if the Big Bad weren't an evil telephone line, why would you answer the phone in an office you've just broken into??
Director of such
films as Alabama Jones and the
Busty Crusade, and the
Bare Wench Project
series, he also finds time to direct
more mainstream fare...such as
Dinocroc vs.
Supergator, Fire Down
Below, and
Camel Spiders. Oh, and
this.
Lent his Egyptian swarthiness to many a
70's and
80's TV show: "Colombo," "Airwolf,"
"The
Rockford Files," "The Facts of Life,"
"The
Bionic Woman," and "Knight Rider," to
name a
few.
Nicknamed "Buck." From bums to
bartenders, guards to
background patients, he's a contender
for appearing in
more Smithee films than anyone else,
ever... Also wrote
The Bikini Carwash
Company.