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The Midnight Hour

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Teenage Halloween pranksters (Shari Belafonte-Harper, LeVar Burton, Lee Montgomery) revive a 300-year-old witch and some of her ghoul friends.

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Brian T The Midnight Hour | Has easily become one of my newest favorite "Family Halloween" rotations each year. I came across this movie about 4 years ago on Youtube. We sat down as a family to watch and have done so each year ever since. This one is just a fun, has some cool make up designs and a solid story behind it. For me, this one is right up there with Ernest Scared Stupid, Halloweentown, Hocus Pocus and Hubie's Halloween for family time viewings. 🔪🎃Rotten Reviews Podcast🎃🔪 Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 08/30/25 Full Review Jeepers C This movie is a great seasonal Halloween treat from my childhood. It has monsters coming back from the dead and crashing a Halloween party going on. The students must stop this mayhem, by doing a ritual before the midnight hour. If not, evil will walk the earth forever. It has alot of big star actors in it . This made for TV was well done and is now a rare, nostalgic treat every Halloween 🎃. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/19/24 Full Review Jay H Nostalgia is a powerful drug... this isn't a great movie, but I loved it when I was younger. If you're an adult and you watch it for the first time, it's probably mighty corny. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 10/01/24 Full Review James E Watched it when I was a kid. Now it's a tradition to watch it for Halloweenor right before. My whole family likes it. Just wish the had better release it's hard to find we have it on VHS from TV when it aired forever ago and found poor quality dvd but still worth it. It's a classic if you ask me. And one of it's kind. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 10/31/23 Full Review Audience Member A made-for-tv Halloween movie that originally aired on November 1, 1985, this movie is cheesy and corny in a perfectly 1980s way, and is so much fun!!!! If you love Halloween, then this movie is a must see! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Audience Member 1985 TVM: Five teenagers sneak into a museum and steal some artifacts and clothes for Halloween pranks and costumes. They unwittingly open up a curse of the dead coming back to life, while reading a scroll in a graveyard. The ghouls run amok in the city, turning the citizens into vampires. One of the resurrected is a dead cheerleader who makes a bond with one of the teenagers. The two must put the artifacts back in synch again to reverse the curse, or the curse never leaves. OK movie, not boring. More of a horror comedy than a straight horror story. Liked the cute relationship between the nerdiest of the five teens and the dead cheerleader. The story from 300 years prior (leading to the curse) involved witches, not vampires. OK, go with it. Stars: Lee Montgomery, Jonna Lee, Shari Belafonte Harper, LeVar Burton, Peter DeLuise, and Dedee Pfieffer. Directed by Jack Bender. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/12/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Teenage Halloween pranksters (Shari Belafonte-Harper, LeVar Burton, Lee Montgomery) revive a 300-year-old witch and some of her ghoul friends.
Director
Jack Bender
Genre
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (TV)
Nov 1, 1985
Runtime
1h 37m