Where Evil Dwells (1985)

Part of the whole 'Transgressive Cinema movement', "Where Evil Dwells" is the supposed "preview" of an originally 2-hour long super-8 punko-horror flick that was destroyed in a fire. It's hard to say if the full version consisted of a more intelligible narrative or was just an extended variant of what currently exists, but based on this 28-minute piece of nihilistic celluloid, I'd bet on the latter...

A series of destructive and sadistic events are introduced as seemingly random vignettes by a killer ventriloquist's dummy (who sounds like Beavis, of "Beavis and Butthead"...). Such pernicious acts involve smashing up vehicles, dangling a life-size dummy off a bridge to fuck with traffic, participating in satanic rituals and a pretty gruesome head stabbing around a bonfire. It all ends with a bizarre depiction of Hell.

So, yeah, it's alright for what it is. If you dig 'experimental' aberration set to a metal/punk soundtrack then check it out. Frankly, I have to be in the right kind of mood to get at all 'into' this kind 'transgressive' type shit, but "Where Evil Dwells" was one of the better I've seen. Again, I'm not sure what the full cut of this was intended to be, but as is, it works as far as this type of 'underground' anarchist punker-flick goes. Check it out for the face stabbing scene.