in 976 evil and satan on the line and if you value your soul and you good not pick up . or so it go in this lame brain horror flick direct by mr. freddy krueger himself and robert englund and which include a script write by brian helgeland and rhet topham . with englund first time behind the camera and you would expect something truly unique or at least something close to be even remotely frighten like a nightmare on elm street ( 1984 ) and but when thing get interesting 976 evil devolves into typical slasher or possession stuff and thus join the rank of so many other b horror movie from the 1980s . the movie at least have an inventive premise represent dial the title phone number put you on a hot line with the devil himself . a creepy voice ( englund ) on the other end give you some advice ( your horror scope ) and it pay off and but usually at a price represent your soul . teenage biker punk spike ( patrick oneal ) and an indebted gambler and be able to use the word of wisdom bestow upon him and break free of his poker habit before the hot line influence have a chance to truly take hold of him . his cousin and shy and repress hoax ( evil ed stephen geoffreys ) and isn not so lucky . bully and unlucky with the lady and he dial 976 evil and before you know it and the otherwise good boy with good moral go from fundamentalist christian to practice satanist in the time it take for you to dial that evil number . now a full fledge psychopath possess by the devil and he soon start grow jet black fingernail and scale and speak in an ever creepy satanic voice who have a tendency of drop painfully unfunny one liner that mostly fall flat on their face . of course with a title like 976 evil and you could only expect the bad from this horror movie . the film start off good and with one unlucky caller meet their demise and and then the main character be introduce but once the scare start come and it all fall apart . but even then and it take almost forever for that to even start . geoffreys and a regular in 80 horror movie like 1985 fright night and seem almost pitch perfect a the shy kid who stand to gain some confidence with satanic power and but come off instead a another reject nerd turn braindead screen slasher who go on a murderous rampage against his tormentor . there be one particularly creepy sequence where he able to manifest a spider tv dinner upon one unfortunate victim . we should have expect well from mr. englund and a expect and we get less . and joe dante regular robert picardo also appear a mark dark and the manager of a sleazy phone sex operation . 976 evil hang up and fast . negative .