A bizarre 'B' movie offering from the evergreen Fred Olen Ray. Here we have a horror/tits n'ass movie, combining live action with animation, as seen in 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' (1988).

The story has four girls employed as cleaners (!!) staying in a spooky old house for the weekend to tidy things up for the new owners. Three of them are good-time girls with 'big' hair and cut-off denim shorts - the foursome made up by the obligatory bespectacled square, played by soft-core porn actress Monique Gabrielle.

The film is low-brow to say the least, but its quite well-made with a reasonable dose of entertainment value. There are lots of breasts on display, particularly Monique's which are quite fantastic, and the film has a self-mocking tone which helps maintain the sense of fun - one girl asks - "Why do these things always have to start with young beautiful co-eds going into the basement?"

David Carradine tries to give the film a star name, but he wanders aimlessly around as some bloke from years ago who got involved with a cursed book, which the girls then find. This unleashes a sexually frustrated cartoon demon which proceeds to stalk the female flesh on display.

60's Corman stalwart Dick Miller puts in an appearance, and proceedings meander along until the script gives up the ghost. For 'B' movie fans 'Evil Toons' has a surprisingly lot to offer. Production values are good and everything gives the impression of having been made by people whose passion for their work is strong.

BEST SCENE - Roxanne's strip dance is good, but Megan's topless scene in front of the mirror is out of the top drawer.

EVIL TOONS is one of the more infamous cheapie horror flicks made by Fred Olen Ray in the 1990s; I remember some minor fuss when it was released to video here in the UK. Seen today, it's rather passe effort, completely cheesy and rather uninteresting too. The only mildly controversial scene is a comedic one in which a nubile young woman is raped by a cartoon character who looks like a cheap rip-off of the Tasmanian Devil. Sadly, those expecting a live action/cartoon mix along the lines of WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT? will be disappointed, because said cartoon character only appears in two scenes. The rest is the usual nonsense in which a possessed woman bumps off her colleagues one night. There's very little gore or nastiness, but a ton of nudity. The best thing about the film is the presence of some old-timers, including David Carradine (who hangs himself in one prescient moment) and the great Dick Miller, who has a wonderful in-joke where he's seen watching A BUCKET OF BLOOD on TV.

Burt (Dick Miller) has a cleaning company and hires four women to clean an isolated house. They find an old book, a dagger and a soul shred and when one of them, Megan (Monique Gabrielle),reads an incantation, she unleashes an evil beast in our world.

"Evil Toons" is a lame, unfunny, dull and boring exploitation with porn starlets. The plot is ridiculous and the storyline "four sexy young girls are to clean an old house for the new owners" is awful since the women are not "sexy young girls" and the house is not "old". Surprisingly David Carradine participates of this garbage. The worst is that I saw this movie many years ago but I did not recall how bad it is and I have just seen it again. My vote is one (awful).

Title (Brazil): "Magias do Mal" ("Magic of Evil")