However, a warlock named Kreon resides there, keeping watch over his bride, Isabelle, whom he has kept preserved for over 70 years using an unrevealed method, but it is known that he needs human victims to do it.

These include muck-men, small reptilian demons, giant spiders, an arachnid woman, an octopus-like creature with electric tentacles, a skeletal witch, a Grim Reaper statue, a vampiric boy in a monk's habit, and a large group of zombies.

[1] Principal photography for the film began at the Jay Estate in Rye, New York in late summer of 1984 and finished in October of that same year.

The original Twisted Souls footage directed by Faulkner and Doran consists of all the travelers who arrive in two cars and all the monsters and effects they encounter within the house.

[1] The creature effects were created by Gabe Bartalos,[1] Arnold Gargulio,[1] Jennifer Aspinall,[1] John Dods, and others helping in various capacities.

Spookies was given a limited theatrical release in the United States by Sony Video Software Company in January 1987 and grossed $17,785 at the box office.

[2] A contemporary review in Variety referred to Spookies as "a silly horror picture which contains some interesting special makeup effects, along with very amateurish ones".

Spookies was also released on VHS in the UK by Palace Video, alongside Evil Dead 2, featuring artwork by Graham Humphries.

[15] A 35 mm print of the film was also screened by American Cinematheque on October 24 of that year at the 10th annual "Dusk-to-Dawn Horrorthon", held at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica, California.