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Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 0013131085136 Format: Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC Label: Starz / Anchor Bay Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay Release Date: July 20, 1999 Running Time: 101 minutes Sales Rank: 11736 Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay Theatrical Release Date: August 28, 1981
Amazon.com: Is there a cheesier, funnier (without meaning to be) actress than Linda Blair? A victim of early Hollywood success with The Exorcist, she hit puberty, tried being a teen queen and a scream queen, and then hung around on the basis of the success of her first major role, exploring the limits of her talent in a series of sub-B movies. This 1981 film, about bad shenanigans during Pledge Week at college, wasn't exactly one of the high points. This surprisingly tedious venture features a group of fraternity and sorority pledges forced to spend the night in an abandoned--and, of course, haunted--mansion that once housed a killer. And would you be surprised to find out that it still does? The cast includes Vincent Van Patten and Peter Barton, as though that's an attraction. No scares, no skin--what's the point? --Marshall Fine
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Get The Hell Out Of My House!
"Hell Night" stars adorable, vivacious Linda Blair of "Exorcist" fame. She must spend the night in the abandoned, decrepit Garth manor along with three other sorority and fraternity pledges. Members of Sigma Phi Rho have rigged the house to emit spooky sounds and images. Unknown to them all, Garth Manor is not as abandoned as it appears. A deranged mongoloid remains and is determined to kill all intruders using a number of gruesome weapons. Who will survive this night of hell?
This slasher flick from the eighties is great to watch on Halloween or on any stormy night. ... Read More
Rating: - Not as hellacious as I remember but still somewhat decent
Linda Blair stars as a college student Marti. Together with three other friends she has to spend the night in a house with a brutal history for an initiation. What started as a mere gag turned into a night of fighting for survival.
Hell Night is an 80's slasher that could mostly appeal to Linda Blair fans. This is one of the reasons I keep it around but it doesn't add to the rating or my overall enjoyment. This to me is a movie that could have been a little better.
I give it some credit for actually trying to give the characters some personality and the setting was fair. ... Read More
Rating: - Cheap, Cheesy and Fun!
Blood and Rain
Blood for the Masses
Hell Night
Starring
Linda Blair
Reviewed By
B.L.Morgan
4 Stars
Every October there's a film festival going on in my house. If I had to put a name to it, it would be The Annual Cheap Horror Halloween Film Festival. Cheap, because for October I buy in quantity. I want to see a lot of horror films that I've never seen before.
Usually I end up with somewhere around thirty movies that go back to the pawnshops and a few that are worth keeping. This year, I'm keeping one.
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Rating: - Great spooky house, whacko killer 80's flick. Get it. Love it.
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 ... Read More
Rating: - Typical 80's Horror Classic
I don't know if I'm getting older or more jaded, but I thought I remembered this movie as being one of the scariest I had ever seen. Compared to todays films, I do appreciate the understated gore and not as much flesh and fewer trash words. Ahh the good old days. The movie was in good condition.
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