# EVIL TOONS (1992) – COMPLETE RPG BIO

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## THE WORLD

Evil Toons is a 1992 American live-action/adult animated comedy horror B-movie written and directed by Fred Olen Ray. Shot on a shoestring budget of $140,000 (Ray initially pitched the idea to Roger Corman for $250,000, but Corman passed, calling it "too risky"), the film is a light spoof of traditional haunted-house films—a gleefully trashy blend of cheap thrills, gratuitous nudity, and a single, horndog cartoon demon.

The film takes place in and around a decaying suburban mansion, isolated and crumbling, that once belonged to a man named Gideon Fisk. The mansion sits in a state of neglect, its rooms filled with dust, cobwebs, and the lingering echoes of a dark past. Outside, the world is mundane—neighbors watch television, bosses run cleaning companies, and life goes on. But inside these walls, reality bends. The boundaries between the living and the dead, the real and the animated, are terrifyingly thin.

The tone is self-aware and campy—a knowing wink to the audience that this is a B-movie, and it knows exactly what it is. The dialogue is deliberately obtuse, the scares are mixed with laughs, and the whole affair is drenched in a thick, sleazy atmosphere of and supernatural horror. The tagline might as well be: " , Slime, and Saturday Morning Cartoons from Hell."

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## THE CURSE

In the early 1930s, a man named Gideon Fisk—the owner of a run-down suburban mansion and an ancient book bound in human skin—hanged himself in his basement. His was an act of defiance, a desperate attempt to spite the cursed tome that had consumed his life. But death was not an escape. Gideon's spirit became bound to the house and the book, cursed to wander its halls for decades, unable to find peace until the evil within the book was destroyed.

The book itself is a thing of nightmare—a Necronomicon-style grimoire, its pages covered in sketches of bizarre monsters, some engaged in depraved acts. It is a textbook of sin, a catalogue of corrupted desire, and a prison for demons waiting to be unleashed. Written in Latin, its incantations are a gateway to a world of animated evil.

Hidden alongside the book was a strange, ancient dagger—the only weapon capable of harming the demon that dwells within the book's pages.

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## THE CHARACTERS

### Megan (Monique Gabrielle) – The Survivor

Megan is the film's central figure—a "prim and proper virginal co-ed", the good girl among a group of sexually liberated college students. She is shy, intellectual, and mostly just worried about surviving until morning. Her innocence is both her vulnerability and her strength. She is the one who ultimately survives, aided by Gideon's ghost, because she has not been corrupted by the demon's influence. She represents purity in a world of sin, and her journey is one of reluctant heroism as she is forced to confront a nightmare beyond her imagination. (Monique Gabrielle, despite playing the "virginal" role, still gets her clothes off—this is a Fred Olen Ray film, after all.)

### Gideon Fisk (David Carradine) – The Cursed Guardian

Gideon Fisk is a tragic, ghostly figure. In life, he was the owner of the mansion and the cursed book—a man driven to by the evil he could not destroy. In death, he is a wanderer, his spirit bound to the house, unable to move on. He appears to the four girls, delivering the book to them, setting the plot in motion. He is a blend of weary guardian and tragic figure—a man who sacrificed himself to contain an evil he could not destroy alone. In the climax, he returns to aid Megan, stabbing the demon with the ancient dagger, and finally ascends to the afterlife, his centuries-long curse at an end.

### Roxanne (Madison Stone) – The First Victim

Roxanne is the "sexually liberated" one—confident, playful, and eager to party overnight with her idiot boyfriend. She is the first to die, stalked and attacked by the Evil Toon, which takes on her physical form after murdering her. Her death establishes the demon's modus operandi: seduction, violation, and assimilation. She is genuinely funny in her brief screen time, delivering her lines with a playful quirkiness.

### Jan (Barbara Dare, credited as Stacey Nix) – The Pragmatist

Jan is one of the four college students hired to clean the mansion. She is practical and focused—she wants to get the house cleaned so she can get paid. She is a victim of the Evil Toon, murdered as the demon collects souls to free itself from the book.

### Terry (Suzanne Ager) – The Casualty

Terry is another of the four college students. Like Jan and Roxanne, she falls prey to the Evil Toon's rampage. Her character, along with the others, represents the disposable nature of the film's victims—beautiful, doomed, and ultimately forgotten as the plot barrels toward its climax.

### Biff Bullock (Don Dowe) – The Jock

Biff is Roxanne's football player boyfriend. He arrives at the mansion, only to be murdered by the Evil Toon, which then takes his form as well. His death, like Roxanne's, demonstrates the demon's ability to mimic and absorb its victims. He is a classic jock archetype, brought low by supernatural forces.

### Burt ( Miller) – The Boss

Burt is the owner of the cleaning company that hires the four women. He is a minor character who arrives at the mansion to check on the girls, only to be lured away and murdered by the demon. Miller, a beloved character actor and B-movie regular, brings a touch of gravitas to his brief, doomed role. In one memorable scene, Burt watches Bucket of Blood (starring Miller, of course) on television and asks, "How come that guy never won an Academy Award?"

### Mr. Hinchlow (Arte Johnson) – The Neighbor

Mr. Hinchlow is the nosy neighbor who appears at the film's end, bringing a portable television so the revived girls can watch Saturday morning cartoons. His appearance is a final, absurdist punchline, underscoring the film's comedic, self-aware tone.

### The Evil Toon – The Demon

The Evil Toon is a sentient cartoon demon—a horny, murderous entity that emerges from the cursed book. Designed by horror journalist Chas Balun, this creature is a grotesque parody of classic cartoon characters: think the Big Bad Wolf crossed with the Tasmanian Devil, but far more bloodthirsty and horny than either.

The demon is a rapist and a killer. Its primary method of attack is sexual assault—it rapes its victims before murdering them and taking on their physical forms. Its ultimate goal is to collect enough souls (a process described as a "soul shred") to free itself and its fellow demons from their imprisonment in the book.

Despite the film's title, there is only one evil toon, and it only gets about 90 seconds of screen time in the 90-minute runtime (the animation was created using real animation cels). But its presence looms over every scene—a constant threat of animated violation.

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## THE PLOT

### Part One: The Setup

In the early 1930s, Gideon Fisk hangs himself in the basement of his suburban mansion, seemingly to spite a possessed book made of human skin.

Decades later, four beautiful female college students—Megan, Roxanne, Jan, and Terry—are hired by Burt to clean the now-vacant mansion over the weekend. They arrive, explore the dusty rooms, and clean the basement, where they find a strange dagger hidden in a chest.

That night, Gideon's cursed spirit delivers the book to them at the front door. The quartet examines it, finding sketches of bizarre monsters engaged in depraved acts. Megan, the "sexually inexperienced" one, reads an incantation from the book—and one of the drawings emerges, becoming a sentient cartoon.

### Part Two: The Rampage

The Evil Toon stalks and attacks the sexually liberated Roxanne. It rapes her, murders her, and takes on her physical form. It then does the same to her arriving boyfriend, Biff Bullock.

The demon's plan is to collect the souls of everyone in the mansion to free itself and its fellow demons from the book. After finding Biff's corpse, the remaining women call their boss, Burt, but before he can help, he is lured away and murdered by the demon. The women eventually discover the demon, who then murders Jan and Terry.

### Part Three: The Climax

Megan, the only survivor, is aided by Gideon's ghost, who returns to help her defeat the demon. He stabs the demon with the strange dagger. Before the demon can retreat to the safety of the book, Megan throws the book into the fireplace, incinerating it and erasing the demon from existence.

Gideon explains that he had needed another mortal's corporeal strength to destroy the book and end his decades-long curse. With his mission complete, Gideon ascends to the afterlife.

### Part Four: The Twist

All of the demon's victims are mysteriously revived. The film ends with Mr. Hinchlow arriving with a portable television, asking: "Hey, kids! Who wants to watch Saturday morning cartoons?" The revived girls gather around the TV as the credits roll.

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## THE TONE

Evil Toons is a movie that knows exactly what it is—and it revels in it. It is:

- Campy and self-aware—a light spoof of haunted-house films.

- Sleazy and exploitative—gratuitous nudity, sexual violence played for queasy laughs, and a "very horny cartoon character with an extra long tongue".

- Deliberately obtuse—the dialogue is ridiculous, the plot is nonsensical, and the characters react to supernatural horror with bizarre nonchalance.

- Funny in spite of itself—there are genuinely funny lines, and the cast is game (and frequently undressed).

As one review put it: "This movie is bad, doesn't have enough Carradine and all the gorgeous ladies in the world can't save it". And yet, it endures—a cult classic, a testament to the power of schlock, and a reminder that "most cartoon characters aren't that innocent, especially the ones that are drawn in the margins of the Necronomicon".

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## KEY LOCATIONS

- The Mansion – A decaying, isolated suburban house. Dusty, cobwebbed, and filled with the echoes of Gideon Fisk's tragedy. The basement is where Fisk hanged himself and where the dagger is hidden. The front door is where Gideon's ghost delivers the cursed book.

- The Basement – The heart of the mansion's dark history. A chest here contains the ancient dagger. The air is cold, the shadows are deep, and the walls seem to breathe.

- The Living Room – Where the girls examine the cursed book, read the incantation, and unleash the Evil Toon. Also where the final confrontation takes place—and where the book is thrown into the fireplace.

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## KEY ITEMS

- The Book – A Necronomicon-style grimoire bound in human skin. Filled with sketches of monsters and depraved acts. Written in Latin. Contains the incantation that unleashes the Evil Toon.

- The Dagger – A strange, ancient blade hidden in a chest in the basement. The only weapon capable of harming the Evil Toon.

- The Book of Souls – Mentioned in some sources as containing a "soul shred"—the process by which the demon collects souls to free itself.

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## BEHIND THE SCENES

- Director/Writer: Fred Olen Ray

- Budget: $140,000

- Shooting Schedule: 8 days

- Animation Screen Time: Approximately 90 seconds

- Notable Cast: David Carradine (Gideon Fisk), Arte Johnson (Mr. Hinchlow), Miller (Burt), Monique Gabrielle (Megan)

- The Demon is voiced by: Robert Quarry and Fred Olen Ray himself

- Trivia: Ray initially pitched the idea to Roger Corman, who passed, calling it "too risky"

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## ROLEPLAY NOTES

This bio is designed for any point of view and any user character. You can be:

- Megan – the virginal survivor, trying to stay alive.

- Roxanne, Jan, or Terry – the doomed victims, enjoying (or regretting) their last night alive.

- Gideon Fisk – the cursed ghost, manipulating events from beyond the grave.

- The Evil Toon – the horny, murderous cartoon demon, stalking and possessing your victims.

- Burt or Mr. Hinchlow – the mundane outsider, stumbling into a nightmare.

- An original character – a new victim, a new hunter, or a new resident of the cursed mansion.

The mansion is your playground. The book is your curse. The demon is your hunger. And the toons... the toons are evil.