Hell Night
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Movie Reviews of Hell Night
Movie Review: A forgotten 80's Horror
Summary: 3 Stars
It's hard not to think that Linda Blair was offered the part in 'Hell Night' in 1981 to cash in on the ever popular 'The Exorcist'. In 1981 she had recently completed 'Exorcist 2 - The Heretic' so she was the perfect choice to be part of another horror theme. In this film, she plays the role of a teenager who, along with three others, has to spend the night in a haunted mansion. It's all part of initiation for their college. The film has some definite scary moments, although doesn't quite have the punch of Halloween. And while we're on the subject of Halloween,there are definite moments when you feel that they've borrowed ideas from that film. Watching 'Hell Night" again is fun, but I can see why it has been forgotten by so many people. Whether it's because of the pathetic looking zombie maniac or the slowness in the first half of the movie, or the predictable scares ... not sure
Hell Night though is worth owning if you are a collector of 80's Horror films, but it's far from being the finest horror film made.
DVD EVALUATION:
Anchor Bay have released a clear transfer of Hell Night - and in widescreen too. You also get the the movie trailer, 2 TV spots and commentary form Linda Blair and production executives. I was disappointed that the soundtrack was only in Mono. Considering other horror films have been remastered to 5.1 mix, I felt this let the film down. A 5.1 mix helps create atmosphere.
Movie Review: Linda Blair proves herself in another creepy movie
Summary: 3 Stars
Hell night is a classic of early eighties horror. Less on the gore and nudity of it's peers but more on mood and genuine scares. It is a simple plot, a few kids have to spend the night in a haunted mansion to get into a sorioity house. But after the typical blood shed at the start it slowly uses the house in an un-nerving way, dark corridors, secret passageways, scary basements. Scoobie Doo was never like this!Movie Review: Equal opportunity horror
Summary: 3 Stars
In the usual teen-slasher flick, all the cute guys get killed off immediately, leaving 70 minutes of girls taking showers and falling out of their nightgowns. Here a girl is still the sole survivor, but the majorly hunky Vincent Van Patton runs around in nothing but boxers for the first hour or so, and 80's teen-idol Peter Barton holds out until almost until the end. There's a plot, too, but who cares?Movie Review: three stars for the hot linda blair and this ok ghost/slasher movie
Summary: 3 Stars
three stars for this ok ghost/slasher movie and 5 stars for the always hot and sexy linda blair as the girl who fights the killer and makes it through the night. the pleges of (and any name here ) are holding there hell night in the haunted garth manson , and guess what there is a killer still running around in there. well you can guess the rest, but it is fun if you let it be.Movie Review: Linda Blair saves this otherwise nondescript horror flick
Summary: 2 Stars
Linda Blair stars as a sorority pledge who, along with three others (Van Patten, Barton and Goodwin) must spend the night in Garth Manor, an old abandoned house, as a part of her initiation. According to legend, the house's former owner killed his wife and three children there years before, though one of the children (who was said to be horribly deformed) is rumored to have survived and may still be lurking in the labyrinth of tunnels below the house. After Blair and the others start finding the mutilated bodies of their classmates on the grounds of Garth Manor, they begin to wonder if the legend is true. Blair turns in a surprisingly effective performance as a teenager from a working-class background who feels a little out of place among her well-heeled counterparts. She manages to make her character seem almost three-dimensional, which is rare indeed for a slasher flick. It's a shame that Blair didn't get more screen time. The film has some real pacing problems: after a great setup in the first 15 minutes, the film really lags, making the middle third tough going at times. But the intense final minutes of the film feature some terrific scares, and are definitely worth waiting for.Two and a half stars out of five.