With the directors not around, the makeup and special effects crew indulges their fancies. The 1980s was the decade of puffy rubbery monster suits, herky-jerky animatronics, skittery stop-motion, and greenish-purplish makeup with fangs. You see all of it in this film to varying degrees of success.

One by one, our blundering bunch of bickering idiots gets taken out by one monstrosity after another. Interspersed between each tableau of gory doom, the sorcerer gloats, speaks in a Lugosi-styled accent that's as bad as his makeup, and summons forth more creatures of the night through Carly. And each time someone scrambles to get out of a room, we cut to the purple werewolf holding the door closed so they can't open it.

The creatures encountered reminded me of those you'd find in a Warren magazine like Creepy or Eerie. There are the sod-men in the cellar, who farted with each step they took. Soil does have a lot of nitrogen, but aesthetically speaking, it ruins the terror when farting sod-men are chasing after you. Then there's the spider-woman who sucks the juices out of the annoying sock-puppet guy. That's actually done well, with the alluring woman turning into a slimy spider. Another keeper is the grim reaper statue coming to life with blazing red eyes and razor-sharp scythe. The tentacled, sucker-fish-looking creature that shoots electric bolts is also not too shabby either.

While all this is going on, the sorcerer's bride, awakened from her eternal sleep, tries to run away from the sorcerer's bad acting, as well as his professed ardor. An interlude with a witch-thingy in a cave sends her running into the graveyard, where zombies pop up and grab her in an overdrawn groping romp. She manages to break free only to run into the purple werewolf guy as the sorcerer gloats some more.

The end makes no sense whatsoever, but it's done for visual effect only. Indeed, the entire film is one big series of visual setups, spliced together with uneven cuts between the sorcerer gloating, the party people screaming and dying, and the bride loathing her predicament.

If ever there was a reason to throw popcorn at a movie screen, this is it. This film is so goofy, you'll love it.

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