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Hell Night (1981)
Director: Tom De Simone
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Producer Irwin Yablans spent the time between Halloween and Halloween II cooking up more of the same. This time the innocent lambs set up for slaughter are a quartet of students (sporting fancy dress for more picturesque effect) who are locked overnight into a haunted house as a fraternity initiation test. To nobody's surprise but their own, jokey efforts to stage manage some nocturnal frights turn into the real thing. Amazing, though, what a competent director, cameraman and cast can do to help out a soggy plot. Tolerably watchable by comparison with the average Halloween rip-off.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Tom De Simone
Producer: Irwin Yablans, Bruce Cohn Curtis
Cast: Linda Blair, Vincent Van Patten, Peter Barton, Kevin Brophy, Jenny Neumann, Suki Goodwin full cast
Genre(s): Horror
Duration: 102 mins
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