Evil Spirits

The sort of film that screams "filmed in five days," EVIL SPIRITS is notable largely for all the old-timers in the cast, some of them holdouts from the days when a movie shot on that schedule could still turn out to be fun and creepy.

Mrs. Purdy (Karen Black) is the owner of a California rooming house whose tenants include a writer named Mr. Balzac (Michael Berryman), a drunk named Willie (Mikel Angel), a suspicious psychic named Vanya (Martine Beswick), dissatisfied new arrivals Mr. and Mrs. Wilson (Bert Remsen and Virginia Mayo), a voluptuous young dancer (Debra Lamb) and a geek kept chained in the basement. The place has a high lodger turnaround, however, as...