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Hell Night
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0013131085136
Format: Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Languages: English (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Release Date: July 20, 1999
Running Time: 102 minutes
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Theatrical Release Date: August 28, 1981
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Editorial Review:
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
Average Rating: 
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 ... 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 ... Read More
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. ... 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.
Rating: - Atmospheric "Slasher", Film Starring Legendary Horror Icon Linda Blair
In the huge glut of "slasher" films produced in the early 1980's, "Hell Night", starring Linda Blair, Peter Barton and Vincent Van Patten, has always been a favourite on mine on a number levels. A viewing last night confirmed for me that while the characters are indeed fairly shallow and the dialogue would certainly never be mistaken for anything penned by Oscar Wilde, "Hell Night", is definately one of the most atmospheric and beautifully photographed efforts to come out of this particular horror sub-genre. ... Read More
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