October Horror Movie Challenge: Spookies (1986)

Last night's movie was Spookies from 1986, and crimony, what an absolute mess. Normally I write these up as I am watching them and then a little time at the end to cover some more. But I needed time to read up on this mess, so I am posting it tonight, early. I might need another movie to work this one out of my system.Spookies (1986)A group of people wander into an old mansion and start getting picked off by an astonishing collection of monsters. Normally I would describe the characters a little more carefully, but this is one of the strangest collections of supposed friends I have seen in a horror movie, and that is saying something. We get a couple who seem to have wandered in from a 1960s greaser movie, a buttoned-down yuppie, some idiot with a puppet, an Englishwoman for reasons I never quite understood, and a woman saddled with the unfortunate name Meegan. Not Megan. Meegan. The credits and closed captioning confirm it. There is a sorcerer, his dead wife, a kid who makes me long…