Evil Laugh is a 1986 American slasher film directed and starring Steven Baio, Kim McKamy, Tony Griffin, Jody Gibson with Johnny Venocur and Dominick Brascia, Jr. The film is about a group of medical students attacked by a masked killer while repairing a building over the weekend.
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Plot
A decade ago, an orphanage has been rebuilt after being burned down following accusations of child molestation and abuse from the building's custodian. A group of medical students are brought in by a pediatrician-turned-doctor to rebuild the building as a foster home, while a psychotic masked assailant stalks them.
Cast
Kim McKamy as Connie
Steven Baio as Johnny Barlony
Tony Griffin as Sammy Baxton III
Jerold Pearson as Barney White
Myles O'Brien as Mark Armstrong
Jody Gibson as Tina
Howard Weiss as Mr. Burns
Karyn O'Bryan as Betty
Susan Grant as Sadie
Gary Hays as Jerry
Hal Shafer as Chief Cash
Johnny Venocur as Freddy
Tom Shell as Delivery Boy
Dominick Brascia as Evil Laugher
Reception
In his overview of horror films from the 1980s, Scott Aaron Stine described the film as "effortless tripe" and that "There is nothing, I repeat, nothing worthwhile or even remotely worthwhile or even remotely memorable about this waste of celluloid."