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List Price: $19.97 | | Label: Anchor Bay Entertainment
Salesrank: 23202
Released: November 24, 2008 |
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Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Linda Blair strs in the hit horror shocker from the Executive Producer of HALLOWEEN. One dark night 12 years ago, madman Raymong Garth butchered his wife and children in their creepy mansion before killing himself. Legend has it that one child survived the slaughter and remains hidden in the house as a deformed monster. Tonight, a group of fraternity and sorority pledges must spend the night in Garth Manor on the anniversary of the killings. But even if these college kids can handle one wild evening of sex, partying, and pranks, will the survive the ultimate horrors of HELL NIGHT? Vincent Van Patten (ROCK 'N' ROLL HIGH SCHOOL) and Peter Barton (THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS) co-star in this slasher hit produced by Irwin Yablans (HALLOWEEN) and Bruce Cohn Curis (BORN INNOCENT) and directed by Tom DeSimone (REFORM SCHOOL GIRLS), and filled with all the grisly murders and startling shocks that made HELL NIGHT an '80s body count classic.
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Hell Night Reviews:
"Pray for Day" 
2009-10-24 - Yeah, actually I was praying for day. Mostly because I presumed that the arrival of day meant that this movie was over, and I could finally eject this turd from my DVD player.
As part of a pledge, four college age kids are required to spend the night in the notorious house where a father murdered his family. That is all but the youngest son "Andrew", a freak of nature who supposedly still dwells somewhere inside the house. Sure enough, the group starts getting picked off one by one as the rest try to escape the house to survive. Boy I could swear I've heard this story once before...Maybe twice.
There isn't much to say about Hell Night. The slasher craze was really starting take off around 1981, and this was simply another forgettable, cookie-cutter entry in the genre. Linda Blair is obviously included to inject a little star power into this mess, but the rest of the cast is atrocious. Super slow build-ups designed to elicit suspense really just hurt the pace and make Hell Night a drawn out bore of a movie. Maybe if they could have kept it short and sweet, it would have been a bit more tolerable. However, an excruciating hour and forty minutes long, you'll be praying for Hell Night to be over. This was a movie that took me a few tries to get through awake.
Recommended for Linda Blair completists. I guess. Otherwise, it's safe to pass on this one.
AWFUL
2009-08-04 - terrible movie, especially linda blair purposely shaking her nasty tits everytime the killer pops out. Bad scares, veeeery slow, and NOT at all scary. One of the worst horror films of the 80's.
Linda Blair Memories 
2009-07-04 - Hell Night I find this movie one of extreme interest as I had never seen it before for wont of avoiding horror movies for some time. My everyday life back then was of 24/7 probable horror while serving in the military.
It was nice to see the standard college prank relying on an urban legend regarding a haunted house. And boy, the heads soon start to roll. Leave it to Linda's character to save her day at the end. It's just too bad about the remainder of the initiates. Excuse me while I shed a tear or two.
Hell Night
2009-04-13 - If you like the sometimes "campy" horror films of the early 1980's, then you'll love "Hell Night"! Four young college students must spend the night in a supposedly haunted house for pledge night(a.k.a Hell Night) where a grizzly mass murder took place years earlier. The horror begins when they discover it's not haunted but that the killer is still alive and living in the tunnels that run under the entire mansion. One by one the deformed killer stalks and kills his prey. Starring Linda Blair from "The Exorcist"(She's much hotter in this film) it's a must see for horror fans!
Great spooky house, whacko killer 80's flick. Get it. Love it. 
2009-02-08 -
This is a fun movie, and well made. The people saying this is "tedious" don't know what they're talking about. Sorry, folks, but I calls 'em as I sees 'em.
It took me a while to catch up with "Hell Night"--I saw it on cable long ago, in the 80's, and I remember enjoying it then. Well, a few intervening years have improved this particular psycho killer on the loose movie. It might have gotten three stars from me then, but now it's so much fun that it rates five stars. Why do deformed people lurking inside abandoned houses go on mad murdering sprees? Well, in these movies, they just do. That's what you paid your five bucks for, and that's what you get.
We have our standard setup--fraternity pledges must spend a night in a creepy old haunted house. Of course, there really IS something very evil and dangerous in the house, and the pledges find they are in a dire situation. A night of horror ensues. "Hell Night" delivers the goods fairly well, and rates up there with "The Funhouse" as a well-produced, nice looking slasher film with style to spare.
The 80's saw a glut of slasher films after the release of "Halloween," and most of them were wretchedly awful, so the gems stand out, and this is one of the gems.
The acting performances are pretty decent all around. We have the wonderful Linda Blair, doing a screaming, cleavage-baring Hammer Films-style damsel-in-distress bit, sure to satisfy fans of that sort of thing. Vince Van Patten steals the show for a few reels when his surfer/party animal character "Seth" suddenly grows a brain and LEAVES THE SPOOKY OLD HOUSE as soon as he realizes there is a real killer on the loose. Seth then goes on to alert the authorities, procure a weapon, and return to the house to save his buddies. This is all very entertainingly bizarre for an 80's horror film because in most of these things, there are no characters so sensible and proactive. Van Patten literally has to be seen to be believed. The various supporting players also do well.
The spooky old house itself is a combination of two houses (one for the exterior scenes, one for the interiors) and some sets built on a stage for special business (catacombs below the house, hair-raising rooftop action, etc.). The DVD is a little murky at times, but the house is one of THE best spooky houses ever presented in a film. I think it rivals Hill House from the original "The Haunting". There, I said it.
Finally, although there is a good bit of blood and gore, the film has an admirable sense of restraint and never goes overboard in that department. Graphic violence is usually only quickly shown, and this helps the character performances stay in proper focus. This is what they call "class," guys.
A very nice-looking, well-acted horror film. Don't buy that new stuff they are calling horror films; all that new stuff is garbage. Get your microwave popcorn popping, and give this one a spin.
