Effective slasher, hell night is a fun treat despite its flaws. B movie style credits it turns into one of the more interesting stalk and slash films of the 80s. Four college pledges are forced to spend the night in a deserted old mansion, where they are. Nothing about the film s execution allows it to rise above its predictable origins. And it was largely thanks to stillnewatthetime vhs tapes feeding that insatiable hunger, allowing me to devour every new release with little to no concern of its quality because the cover art. Its an 80s slasher, produced inbetween two halloweenfilms. Furthermore, freed from the need to deliver a massive body count, the creative parties involved both director desimone and.
Hell night 1981 linda blair and peter barton in hell night 1981 suki goodwin. Four sorority pledges enter the abandoned house, which they are told was the home to a man who killed his wife and three of his four deformed children, and the. It doesnt seem to have cost a whole lot, and i suspect that the biggest line item in the budget was linda blairs cocaine. A group of kids get together for some kind of adventure or forbidden ritual in a haunted house, summer camp, old school, etc. Four college pledges are forced to spend the night in a deserted old mansion, where they are stalked by the monstrous survivor of a family massacre years earlier. I am willing to give anything a go and i am always thrilled to find an example of a genre film that has every excuse in the world to be a lousy phoned in slasher flick actually put forth the effort. As an initiation rite into alpha sigma rho fraternity, four pledges must spend a night in garth manor, twelve years to the day after the previous resident murdered his entire family. Hell night 1981 linda blair and peter barton in hell night 1981 suki goodwin and vincent. January 2, 2017 the increasingly violent and exploitative slasher cycle was in full force when hell night reached theaters in august 1981. Even by 1981, the basic premise of hell night felt cliche.
Hell night is a 1981 horror film about a group of college coeds who spend the night in a haunted house as part of an initiation ceremony. Kautzer, the movie isle hell night is a very fun, wellmade slasher film with a notable star from the 1980s heyday of the horror subgenre. Hell night dvd for sale 1981 linda blair dvd synopsis and information. Dec 11, 2017 as an initiation rite into alpha sigma rho fraternity, four pledges must spend a night in garth manor, twelve years to the day after the previous resident murdered his entire family. Hell nights hours and hours of special features raise this scream factory bluray disc to a must own for any horrorslasher geek. While the other fraternity members are playing pranks to increase the eeriness, the real killer comes to interfere of course, you cant really refer to this hell night as being a good film. Sure it doesnt have a skyhigh body count, and the killer didnt have an iconic gimmick. Hell night 1981 nude scenes film, cinema, 80s, scary, horror, slasher, monster, killer, haunted house if night of the creeps didnt make you afraid of pledging a fraternity, 1981s hell night certainly will. The increasingly violent and exploitative slasher cycle was in full force when hell night reached theaters in august 1981. When this seemingly innocent night turns deadly, these college students will do anything to survive hell night. Hell night 1981 tom desimone synopsis, characteristics. One of several dozen slasher movies to find its way to screens during the slasher horror movie boom of the late 70s and early 80s, tom desimones hell night always seems like the one that gets left out in the cold.
The film centers around a four of new alpha sigma rho fraternity kids. Hell night has a slight edge over many of the other films from the early80s slasher film cycle because randolph feldmans script boasts a unique old dark house setting with an interesting backstory. Hell night may have an intriguing setup, but ultimately it suffers from bland execution and a rather uneventful narrative, which results in just another forgettable slasher from the 80s. It is not so good as it might be, either, but remember that it is a horror film. The plot blends elements of slasher films and haunted housethemed films. Its got some choice jump moments, a good storyline and a damn creepy location. Hell night is a fun little 1981 horror film from the producer of halloween. Linda blair, peter barton, vincent van patten, kevin brophy, suki goodwin, jenny neumann, jimmy sturtevant. Hell of a night official trailer 2019 horror movie duration. Scene from hell night 1981 guy survives an attack and checks the body. Hell night 1981 from the grindhouse cinema database. Hell night 1981 is shamefully underrated and i wonder what kind of drugs youd have to be on to not see how superior it is to the films its usually lumped with. As the popular culture declines, the horror film declines with it, and. One dark night 12 years ago, madman raymond garth butchered.
Obviously having linda blair in the lead is the main draw, but hell night has a lot more to offer. Hell night dvd is still a terrific 80s slasher and shocker movie. Hell night is riddled with such oil and water scenes, and the net effect is an average horror flick without a lot of originality, but with plenty of spirit and mysterious skill thats unfortunately marred with halfbaked attempts to squeeze a good film into a popular genre. A for effort scream factory goes allout for the minor lowbudget college slasher flick with linda blair. College fraternity and sorority pledges spend a night in an abandoned mansion and get stalked by the one monstrous survivor of a family. Hell night featuring linda blair and vincent van patten is streaming with subscription on shout. The film depicts a night of fraternity hazing set in an old manor, during which a deformed killer terrorizes and murders many of the college students.
Hell night, linda blair, peter barton, movie, film, cinema, 80s, scary, horror, slasher, monster, killer, haunted house if night of the creeps didnt make you afraid of pledging a fraternity, 1981s hell night certainly will. Mar 02, 2009 in the cynical weknoweverything days of 2009, a film with a premise so simplistic as hell night is likely to be casually dismissed as ancient crap. Hell night is available to stream on shout factory tv, shudder and tubi. Four college pledges are forced to spend the night in a deserted old mansion, where they are stalked by. Granted, theres very little to outwardly discern the 1981 shocker starring the exorcists linda blair from any other movie of the era featuring a group of annoying college kids. High resolution movie poster image for hell night 1981. Its not an overly gory movie outside of a gruesome severed head in a bed gag and a bloody scythe murder. Feb 20, 2012 hell night 1981 is shamefully underrated and i wonder what kind of drugs youd have to be on to not see how superior it is to the films its usually lumped with.
Four college pledges are forced to spend the night in a deserted old mansion where they get killed off one by one by the monstrous surviving members of a family massacre years earlier for trespassing on their living grounds. Usually dismissed as yet another halloween clone, in retrospect hell night plays more like a charming gothic throwback to those old teens in a castlehaunted house movies like the headless ghost, albeit laced with a little 80s gore and mild sexiness to spice things up. Hell night happily resides within those already crampacked memory banks of my horrorcraving youth, those formative years when i was most ravenous and eager to watch anything without discrimination. Its a horror and mystery movie with an average rotten tomatoes critics score of 56% and an. When the marti and jeff seemingly innocent rite of passage turns terrible and deadly these pledges will do anything to survive hell night dvd. College frat kids marti gaines played by linda blair have a special hazing and initiating rites to get into the elite alpha sigma rho fraternity house. An illustration of a computer application window wayback machine an illustration of an open book. C this is a fairly entertaining little slasher film with pretty welldone suspense, some great jumpscares, some interesting murders, and linda blair dressed in ruffles and velvet. The image measures 2151 3250 pixels and is 829 kilobytes large. Hell night is a relentlessly lackluster example of the dead teenager movie. After the four pledges bed down for the night mainly with each other, though blair is called upon for the standard. With linda blair, vincent van patten, peter barton, kevin brophy. Tom desimones stylish direction milks this haunted house atmosphere for all its worth and he crafts a few effective shock sequences toward.
Hell night 1981 watch on shout factory tv, shudder, tubi, and. On hell night, the sorority and fraternity pledges at the local college face the initiation ritual of spending the night in old garth manor. Now i was somewhere in the middle of the third reel, and still nothing had happened. Instead, hell night delivers a slow, scarefree 102 minutes. The plot is as follows twelve years ago, a man savagely murdered his wife and three of their deformed and disabled children, leaving only one son as a survivor, then hanging himself in his family mansion. Hell night 1981 is one of my most fondly remembered horror movies of the 1980s and one that has a large following. College fraternity and sorority pledges spend a night in an abandoned mansion and get stalked by the one monstrous survivor of a family massacre. Hell night is a 1981 american slasher film directed by tom desimone, written by randy feldman, and starring linda blair. After being possessed by the demon pazuzu in the exorcist, linda blair faced a different kind of threat that made some horror fans pray for day in hell night. While the film closely adhered to the subgenres triedandtrue formula, dropping young adults into an isolated setting and pitting them against a homicidal maniac, director tom desimone, writer randolph feldman, and producer irwin yablans coming off the success of 1978. Watch hell night 1981 full movie free online streaming tubi. Its often painted as a halloween alsoran but it does so much to distinguish itself from the fly by nights of its day that it should be considered a classic in its own right.
Hell night dvd is a terrific little early 80s shocker, perfect. While the film closely adhered to the subgenres triedandtrue formula, dropping young adults into an isolated setting and pitting them against a homicidal maniac. Pray for day four college pledges are forced to spend the night in a deserted old mansion where they get killed off one by one by the monstrous surviving members of a family massacre years earlier for trespassing on their living grounds. Its long and slow with a low body count why bother. The opening sequence gives us a long frat party that introduces the characters in a. Buy hell night dvd 1981 us import from amazons movies store. The film has some terrific creepy old house atmosphere, the characters are likeable and its genuinely suspenseful. Fraternity and sorority pledges spend the night in a mansion haunted by victims of a family massacre. At a frat party, alpha sigma rho pledges marti linda blair, seth vincent van patten, jeff peter barton, and denise suki goodwin are required, as part of an initiation, to spend the night in the garth manor mansion where several murders took place. Enjoy a rich lineup of tv shows and movies included with your prime membership. When it comes time for people to name their favorite slashers from the 80s, as it always does, 1981s hell night is often overlooked by many horror fans, and i dont know why. Watch it if youre a pretty serious horror fan, because theres. With the 1981 slasher film out now on a collectors edition bluray from scream factory, weve been provided with three copies to give away to lucky daily dead readers. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
The film is an underrated horror yarn that stars linda blair and vincent van patten. Hell night is a stereotypical but fondly remembered slasher flick from the 80s. Staring jimmy sturtevant, suki goodwin, jenny neumann and kevin brophy. Some, however, say that one member of the garth family survived, and still resides somewhere in the nowdeserted mansion. By nothing, by the way, i mean nothing original, unexpected, wellcrafted, interestingly acted, or even excitingly violent. Hell night 1981 the hollow 2004 movie by edward barkdoll. Hell night 1981 dvd remains a terrific little 80s shocker and horror film.
Watch hell night 1981 full movie free online streaming. Hell night 1981 tom desimone, linda blair, vincent van. While tom desimones hell night is a mostly forgotten bslasher, produced at a time when the subgenre was just about to explode in popularity, the movie has become one of my most cherished memories partly because of the vhs box artwork daring me to welcome the nightmare as a kid. This is a fairly entertaining little slasher film with pretty welldone suspense, some great jumpscares, some interesting murders, and linda blair dressed in ruffles and velvet. Hell night 1981 before being able to join alpha sigma rho fraternity and its sister sorority, four pledges must spend the night in garth manor, twelve years to the day after the previous resident murdered his entire family. At a frat party, alpha sigma rho pledges marti linda blair, seth vincent van patten, jeff peter barton, and denise suki goodwin are required, as part of.
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