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  Review by Sean Baker 12

  This was one of the few early 80's slasher films that I never saw for whatever reason. This film, Curtains, Silent Scream and The Boogey Man are the biggies that I missed back in the day.

  Anyhows.... finally watched Hell Night. Enjoyed it. A few very inspired scenes/shots... the reveal cut of  the killer at the end of the bed... and the frustrated teen (Vincent Van Patten) raiding the back room of the police precinct.

  Scream Factory Blu-ray is jammed with extras. And they do a good job with the 4K scan of the best surviving archival 35mm film print. (so that means the negative is lost... very sad. Preservation/archivism is so important. Indie films can still be easily lost.)

  Too bad actress Suki Goodwin never made another film.

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  Review by Ian West ★★ 6

  Haunted gothic castle roaming 80’s Slasher with a decent enough villain and an awesome ending, unfortunately so much of Hell Night is bogged down by a lack of tension and slow pacing—especially in that second act.

  Happy that this hit blu a year or two ago and I was interested in revisiting this but alas... it still didn’t do much for me—I wish I could cut 15 minutes from this movie (and Linda Blair—who I love and respect but I just can’t with her character in this). Still though, there’s some ok stuff in here... and I love that last 10 minutes—a truly fun ending that feels wasted amongst all the filler.

  
  Bummer.

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  Review by Tony the Terror 666 ★★★ 1

  A slasher starring Linda Blair and set inside a spooky old house sounds like something I would absolutely give a 4-5 star rating right? But no, le sigh, it’s only a 3 star deal and that’s mostly due to parts of it being so so so boring. There’s way too much talking between these teens and they just aren’t that interesting. Like the blond surfer guy wanders around the house in his boxers for half the movie and either take them off or put all your clothes on k, stop being a cock tease.

  Still, Linda is super adorable and the kills are pretty fun so I still come back to this every once in a while in spite of the talkiness and unacceptable lack of male nudity.

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  Review by Kevflix And Chill ★★½ 1

  #SlasherSaturday
  Watching this, I was really hoping Seth was going to be the final girl. I should have know it would be the one and only Linda Blair though. (When the film first started, I thought for sure it was Stevie Nicks 😆). This was a pretty fun 80’s slasher complete with some cheese dialogue. A couple decent kills, but this kind of left me wanting for more in that department. Great poster though. 

  Degrees of Kevin Bacon: 2
  1. Linda Blair and Neve Campbell in Scream
  2. Neve Campbell and Kevin Bacon in Wild Things

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  Review by belial_carboni ★★★ 10

  When you start an 80s horror with a bomb Halloween party, blood red title font and a glorious opening song you've got my attention! I have been familiar with the poster art of Hell Night for many years and was always curious the movie itself. 80s horror has a way of delivering top notch artwork but it doesn't always equal the viewing experience. And once again thats the case here.

  While a little slow and tame Hell Night delivers a fun and charming ride through supernatural horrors and 80s cheese. Some college pledges are initiated by staying in an old mansion overnight. Too bad the mansion was a scene of a family massacre years before! It isn't long before the…

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  Review by Lou (rhymes with wow!) ★★★ 4

  Not a very good slasher, since it lacks a lot of the genre's best qualities (a memorable killer, inventive kills/gore and nudity). It does take place at an atmospheric location however, which is always fun.

  I still had a good time watching this with Michelle, despite it being a lesser movie.

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  Review by NotAnnaFaris 💔🏴‍☠️💔 ★★★

  "WTH is this HOLE?!?"
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  Idk, but Jeff gave that candle the saddest goodnight kiss I've ever seen 😭

  #SlasherSaturday

  Really fun & surprisingly well made, Hell Night made for a very brisk & entertaining Monster Slash. It's also AUTUMN A F 😍

  
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  3 outta 5 Finger-Guns to go with the Level-10 Mirror-Check after ya score another one for the good guys.

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★ 2

  35

  In theory, a mix of William Castle movies and an early-80s Slasher film sounds like an instant classic, but Hell Night has about 25 minutes of filler added to an absurdly slow pace. By the time anything interesting happens, you're already checked out. Boring. Cool setting, though, and the intro/opening song is fantastic.

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  Review by nathaxnne [hiatus: blast injury] ★★★★½ 6

  We have forgotten how to watch Hell Night because we no longer have available to us important material co-factors in the creation and contemporary reception of Hell Night not the least of which are totally quaaludes. Hell Night is gloriously manifest maybe-peak-quaalude-cinema heavy-duty inertial real-time slow-motion creeping-as-if-you-are-almost-sleeping towards inevitable danger/mortality which is some grumpy dude with insomnia/ptsd understandably hella upset that a torch-bearing mob of frat bros direct-deposited rando kids in his living room or wherever whereupon the important life lesson of polydrug rock-paper-scissors jack daniels covers the cocaine which covers the jack daniels while quaaludes keeps everything chill if chill is kind of a sultry extended heave wave through space in bra & panties & high-humidity hair that isn't going to…

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  Review by 📀 Cammmalot 📀 ★★½ 2

  Cinematic Time Capsule
  1981 Marathon - Film #59

  ”Help! There’s been a murder!”
  “What fraternity are you with?”

  This slasher film’s runtime is in desperate need of some serious slashing.

  “Son, you kids have been getting away with murder all night long.”

  
  I was an 80’s Slasher

  Cinematic Time Capsule - 1981 Ranked

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  Review by Sam G🎃 ★★★

  #SLASHERSATURDAY

  Surprised to see Linda Blair in this. As it started, it had a simple enough premise to get characters from point A to point creepy house stalked by a monstrous killer. 

  It’s got the Halloween vibes I love and these characters weren’t entirely annoying, just kinda there lol(Seth is the MVP). Jumps straight into things tho and I was surprised by how well shot it was. The creepy house setting was just right and it loads in the atmosphere bcuz of it. The effects were well handled for the most part, in that cheesy dated sorta way but it did lack the carnage and kills needed to push this higher for me. The final moments were cool and where it shined gore wise. I just didn’t find any of it really that memorable and it was decent enough for a Saturday night slash. 6.4/10🗝️

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  Review by Middle-Aged Hate Eternal Enthusiast ★★★ 6

  I can’t think of anything less dignified than to be killed while dressed as Mork from Ork. 

  This was a hoot! Great setting, fun premise, lovely cinematography. Some halfway decent jump scares too. I don’t always abhor a poky slasher where people aimlessly wander around a dark house questioningly saying other people’s names. In fact, sometime I enjoy it. But only so long as the film is well shot and has a handful of decent kills and is as dripping with atmosphere as this one is. 

  Blair is shockingly bad. Inept and adrift. It’s stunning how someone who got their start in one of the scariest films of all time could be this incapable of credibly portraying terror. But here…