Forever Evil (film)
1987 film by Roger Evans
Forever Evil (also known as Nemesis) is a 1987 American horror film directed by Roger Evans, who also co-edited the film. It stars Red Mitchell, Tracey Huffman, and Charles L. Trotter.
Plot
Three couples, Marc Denning and his girlfriend Holly, Marc's brother Jay and his girlfriend Julie, and Marc and Holly's friends Robert and Jeanne, meet for one last party before vacating a lakeside cabin. As the friends play cards, Holly goes to shower. A scream is heard and Holly is discovered in the shower dead, her entrails ripped open and her baby (she was pregnant) gone. Julie is found hung upside down in the living room, her throat cut, and Jay is killed by an invisible force with glowing red eyes, while Jeanne is dragged out the window by a tree branch, apparently to her death. Robert tries to save Jeanne but is soon killed as well. After being assaulted by a zombie-like creature whose eye he rips out, Denning stumbles to the nearby highway where he is hit by a car.
He wakes up in the hospital with a broken leg and three broken ribs. The police begin to investigate the murders, with Detective Leo Ball in charge, who feels the murders are connected to others.
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