Mar 9, 2022
Hell Night (1981)
"If you weren't screaming, and we weren't screaming... then someone is trying to mind fuck us here."
#hell night#1981#horror film#Tom DeSimone#Randy Feldman#slasher film#linda blair#vincent van patten#peter barton#kevin brophy#jenny neumann#suki goodwin#jimmy sturtevant#hal ralston#carey fox#ron gans#gloria heilman#dan wyman#mix of campus slasher and house of horrors; this is fairly derivative but it's still a fun time. solid and good looking but#unexceptional and definitely a little over long: too many repetitive conversations and too much exposition#whatever faults it may have‚ it certainly trundles along well enough and is a pretty good time and it absolutely#steps up a gear for the final twenty minutes once all the twists are done and dusted and it comes down to monster man v#Linda Blair (and she's very good too! for once she doesn't have to do the possession shtick). this last act is brutal and violent#and brilliantly shot‚ and if only the preceeding 80 minutes had been executed with the same oomph this would be a bonafide classic#of early 80s splatter cinema. hey ho hey ho‚ tis still a fun time
