the scant few teenager who go to see 976 evil in 1989 probably have no idea who sandy dennis be ( just a the kid who first saw carrie do not know who piper laurie be ) and but the veteran actress manages to bring a few minute of class to an otherwise lousy and fifth rate screamer about a nerdy high school kid acquire demonic power from a satanic phone number . amateurish mishmash and derivative and grimy and mark the directorial debut of freddy krueger himself and robert englund . englund offer precious little originality and but he do let dennis strut her stuff in an amusing and fanatical support bit heavily reminiscent of piper laurie religious mama from carrie . from .