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'''''Hell Night''''' is a [[1981]] [[horror film]] |
'''''Hell Night''''' is a [[1981]] [[horror film]]. [[Tom DeSimone]] directed the film, which was written by [[Randy Feldman]] and stars [[Linda Blair]]. The film depicts a night of [[Fraternities and sororities|fraternity]] [[hazing]] ("hell night") set in an old manor, during which a deformed maniac terrorizes and murders many of the college students. |
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''Hell Night'' was unusual in that it was a [[slasher film]] that contained no nudity or explicit violence. Critics described the film as "extremely dull".{{fact}} |
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== Plot (some spoilers ahead)== |
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Peter Bennett, the president of a fraternity by the name of Alpha Sigma Rho, is making 4 pledges to stay at Garth Manor for 6 hours (until dawn),a place where 12 years to the day, Raymond Garth strangled his wife Lillian to death, then proceeded to murder all of his children in gruesome ways, save the youngest child Andrew, who he forced to watch the whole ordeal. Peter mentioned that the cops only found 3 bodies, and the child who Raymond Garth forced to watch the whole gruesome ordeal, may still be living within the manor. Little did they know, Peter was right. Will the 4 pledges survive the night? |
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==Plot== |
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Peter Bennett ([[Kevin Brophy]]), the president of the Alpha Sigma Rho fraternity, is making four pledges - Marti ([[Linda Blair]]), Jeff ([[Peter Barton]]), Seth ([[Vincent Van Patten]]), and Denise ([[Suki Goodwin]]) - stay at Garth Manor until dawn on hell night. Twelve years ago to the day, Raymond Garth strangled his wife Lillian to death in the house and then proceeded to murder all of his children. However, police never found the body of the youngest Garth child, Andrew. Local legend states that Andrew witnessed the murder of his family and may still be living within the manor. Scott ([[Jimmy Sturtevant]]) and May ([[Jenny Neumann]]) assist Peter in attempting to scare the pledges until an unknown prowler begins killing the teens. |
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*[[Linda Blair]] - Marti |
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*[[Vincent Van Patten]] - Seth |
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*[[Peter Barton]] - Jeff Reed |
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*[[Kevin Brophy]] - Peter Bennett |
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*[[Jenny Neumann]] - May |
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*[[Suki Goodwin]] - Denise Dunsmore |
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*[[Jimmy Sturtevant]] - Scott |
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*[[Hal Ralston]] - Older Cop |
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*[[Carey Fox]] - Younger Cop |
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*[[Ronald Gans]] - Driver |
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*[[Gloria Heilman]] - Party Girl |
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== Production == |
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| ⚫ | Filming ''Hell Night'' took only 40 days. The majority of the movie was shot in three locations: The outside of Garth Manor was shot at a mansion in Redlands, California. (The mansion was converted from a private residence to a [[museum]] shortly after filming was completed.) The hedge maze was brought in as there was no actual garden maze on the mansion property. The inside of Garth Manor was filmed in a residential home in Pasadena, California. The frat party was filmed in an apartment lobby in Los Angeles, California. The many underground tunnels filmed in the movie were actually no more than two corridors in which the director had the actors running repeatedly through from different angles. |
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* Filming took 40 days. |
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* The many underground tunnels filmed in the movie were actually no more than two corridors in which the director had the actors running repeatedly through from different angles. |
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* The hedge maze was brought in as there was no actual garden maze on the mansion property. |
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* What appears to be the usual teenage hack-'em-up has no nudity or explicit violence, making one wonder just what audience they had in mind. Critics call it "extremely dull." |
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==External links== |
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*{{imdb title|id=0082511|title=Hell Night}} |
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Revision as of 01:12, 22 June 2007
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| Directed by | Tom DeSimone |
| Written by | Randy Feldman |
| Produced by | Irwin Yablans Bruce Cohn Curtis |
| Starring | Linda Blair Vincent Van Patten Peter Barton |
| Cinematography | Mac Ahlberg |
| Edited by | Anthony DiMarco |
| Music by | Dan Wyman |
| Distributed by | Compass International Pictures |
Release dates | August 28, 1981 |
Running time | 101 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Hell Night is a 1981 horror film. Tom DeSimone directed the film, which was written by Randy Feldman and stars Linda Blair. The film depicts a night of fraternity hazing ("hell night") set in an old manor, during which a deformed maniac terrorizes and murders many of the college students.
Hell Night was unusual in that it was a slasher film that contained no nudity or explicit violence. Critics described the film as "extremely dull".[citation needed]
Plot
Peter Bennett (Kevin Brophy), the president of the Alpha Sigma Rho fraternity, is making four pledges - Marti (Linda Blair), Jeff (Peter Barton), Seth (Vincent Van Patten), and Denise (Suki Goodwin) - stay at Garth Manor until dawn on hell night. Twelve years ago to the day, Raymond Garth strangled his wife Lillian to death in the house and then proceeded to murder all of his children. However, police never found the body of the youngest Garth child, Andrew. Local legend states that Andrew witnessed the murder of his family and may still be living within the manor. Scott (Jimmy Sturtevant) and May (Jenny Neumann) assist Peter in attempting to scare the pledges until an unknown prowler begins killing the teens.
Production
Filming Hell Night took only 40 days. The majority of the movie was shot in three locations: The outside of Garth Manor was shot at a mansion in Redlands, California. (The mansion was converted from a private residence to a museum shortly after filming was completed.) The hedge maze was brought in as there was no actual garden maze on the mansion property. The inside of Garth Manor was filmed in a residential home in Pasadena, California. The frat party was filmed in an apartment lobby in Los Angeles, California. The many underground tunnels filmed in the movie were actually no more than two corridors in which the director had the actors running repeatedly through from different angles.
For the scene where Jeff is thrown down a flight of stairs and hurt his leg, there wasn't a lot of acting involved. In reality, actor Peter Barton had really hurt himself and most of his limping was due to being in real physical pain.
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