Hell Night

R

1981

1h 40m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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57%

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14 Reviews

44%

Audience Score

2,500+ Ratings

Fraternity and sorority pledges ignore rumors and spend the night in a mansion haunted by victims of a family massacre.

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Anton Bitel

Little White Lies

Hell Night reconfigures the slasher as social struggle, with Marti not just its final girl, but also its working-class heroine. And while she may continue to embrace liberty and equality, Marti learns to turn her back on fraternity.

Jul 26, 2021

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

You know a movie is in trouble when what is happening on the screen inspires daydreams. I had lasted through the first reel, and nothing had happened. Now I was somewhere in the middle of the third reel, and still nothing had happened.

Rated: 1/4

Oct 23, 2004

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Alan Jones

Starburst

Hell Night is sheer hell to sit through.

Jul 28, 2022

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

While slasher-flick aficionados prefer their pictures with generous servings of both gore and T&A, Hell Night is relatively restrained on both fronts, making it a good bet for family viewing around Christmastime. (OK, that might be a slight exaggeration.)

Rated: 2/4

Sep 18, 2021

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

...despite no sequels, reboots or remakes, this semi-original shocker shouldn't be forgotten...

Rated: 3/5

Jul 28, 2021

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Eve Tushnet

Patheos

It has really nothing to say, and I found that I couldn't quite love it, but it's much better-crafted than it needed to be. The music is striking...

Jan 23, 2021

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Ricky R

Would actually be a cool little slasher if not for the painfully slow pace.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/03/24

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Steve D

There are no surprises here but it is effective.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/11/23

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Elvis D

Una buena película de terror slasher para ver en noche de Halloween con una Linda Blair que cumple su rol como otro icono del terror después de su papel en The Exorcist. La trama es buena, los efectos prácticos de la época son aceptables y por más que sea una película simple, es bastante entretenida. Lo que si tiene algunas fallas que generan algunas dudas como que no se tiene en claro si la mansión donde transcurre la historia estaba embrujada. Aun así, Hell Night es un slasher más que ofrece buen entretenimiento para los que disfrutan del subgénero. Mi nota final para esta película es un 8/10.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/10/23

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Audience Member

A truly underrated and underappreciated horror slasher film. Hell Night is the story of four college pledges who have to stay a night at a infamous mansion where things get spooky for them on Halloween night. Is it a prank from their fraternity or something beyond? Now I can see why people would not like it because of the writing but the film still has so much good qualities. The costume designs were pretty impressive. Linda Blair gives her best performance since doing The Exorcist. The musical score composed by Dan Wyman is pretty well made. But most importantly, Hell Night is a creepy and scary film. Hell Night is a satisfying film in the horror slasher genre.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/18/23

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Audience Member

Linda Blair is always sexy. Otherwise, lots of killings at the hands of...somebody...we never know who. Standard "teens" near their thirtieth birthdays getting killed off.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/15/23

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Audience Member

Hell night is one of the more polished and entertaining teen slashers to come out of the early eighties. Four college kids (including a blonde surfer dude, an English chick with a penchant for running around in her underwear, a Jared Leto lookalike and of course Linda Blair) are locked within the grounds of a reportedly haunted mansion as part of a fraternity initiation and are picked off one-by-one by the deformed family members who still inhabit the place. It's far from original, but let's face it you go in knowing what you're going to get and this film does what it does very well.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/01/23

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Synopsis

Fraternity and sorority pledges ignore rumors and spend the night in a mansion haunted by victims of a family massacre.

Director: Tom DeSimone
Producer: Chuck Russell, Joseph Wolf
Screenwriter: Randy Feldman
Production Co: BLT Productions, Media Home Entertainment
Rating: R
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 2, 2018
Runtime: 1h 40m
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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