Name: Hell Night
Released: 1981
Duration: 101 min

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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.

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Buck Flower Sings

6.5/10 - The problem isn't that it's a bad movie, in fact it plays the Gothic atmosphere and setup quite well and plays off the history and hell night quite well. The issue is so much of this film is silent without build up or characters talking that it fades in and out of jump scare too much to try and make up for the fact. Not so much a hell night, more of a kinda meh night. Linda Blair doesn't do much in the way of helping improve it either which is a shame.

jekyl6669

Another solid slasher that mixes in old school horror with the Gothic creepy old house. It also has some likeable, pretty human characters, which helps it stand out from the crowd.

mattblack_uk

Well... it is a bit rubbish, isn'#39;t it? Strangely though, I rather enjoyed it.

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Wuchak

0/10

_**Early 80s slasher in a gothic manor with Linda Blair**_ Four pledges at a Southern Cal university have to spend the night at an infamous deserted mansion. As the other students try to scare them they learn that the horrific legends about the house might be real. Peter Barton and Vincent Van Patten play the male protagonists. “Hell Night” (1981) plays like "Friday the 13th" in a gothic manor. People who like "The Funhouse" (1981), "The Prowler" (1981), "Zombie High" (1987) and "Prom Night IV: Deliver Us from Evil" (1991) should appreciate it, although "The Funhouse," "Prom Night IV" and "Friday the 13th" (any of them) are all-around more entertaining. Aside from Ms. Blair, Suki Goodwin and Jenny Neumann stand out on the female front. Their beauty is displayed without getting too raunchy. This is a good ‘scary movie’ for the Halloween season as all the staples are present and it’s not painful & unpalatable like some horror flicks. There’s a little too much filler though and it needed cut down by 10-12 minutes. The movie runs 1 hour, 41 minutes, and was shot in Kimberly Crest Estate, Redlands (Garth Manor), University of Redlands and Redlands, California, with party interiors done in South Pasadena and studio work done in Hollywood. GRADE: B-/C+