Spookies

Spookies (1986) is a rubber-and-latex creature feature you can watch online on iFILM, a love letter to the era when monsters were built by hand. A handful of strangers take a wrong turn and end up trapped in a mansion beside a graveyard, ruled by an undead sorcerer.

The old man needs victims. Every life he claims feeds the eternal youth of his beautiful bride. What follows is a conveyor belt of ghouls — spider cocoons, a muck-covered swamp creature, cackling goblins in greasepaint, roughly one per hallway. The plot barely holds together, but the practical effects were made with obvious affection.

Three directors worked on it, and the finished film was stitched from two separate productions, which explains the gleeful chaos. If you grew up on scrappy '80s horror where charm beats logic, dig in. Stream Spookies (1986) online on iFILM.