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Apr 2019
Not much happens in this flick until the end, but it manages to maintain a nicely eerie atmosphere in any event.

For anyone who doesn't know: One Dark Night stars Meg Tilly, fresh off Psycho II, playing Julie, a timid high schooler who wants to join "The Sisters," a clique of bitchy popular girls, in order to shed her good girl image.

The Sisters have one final initiation for her: spend the night in the creepy local mausoleum. K, easy enough. Except in true '80s movie fashion, these girls have no intention of letting Julie join and only wanna scare the ever living shit out of her.

Hijinx ensue, but then the recently-deceased maniac Karl Raymar, who has telekinetic powers and just so happens to reside in the very same mausoleum Julie spends the night in (oh no!) wants one last posthumous rendezvous..

I love this movie. I have major personal attachment to it, having been one of the first horror movies I ever saw, maybe even thee first. The interior of the mausoleum looks fantastic; there's some great imagery to be had here. And of course, the highlight of One Dark Night, are the reanimated corpses Karl Raymar uses to frighten his victims to death and man are they some wonderfully icky, rotten sumbitches.

A fun little sleeper I think. Thoughts?


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Znep27 says:
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Apr 2019
Don't forget Adam West in this one. And it's from the same director as Jason Lives. That's really all I remember, it's been over a decade.


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sfpx says:
#2, Reply to #1

Apr 2019
I have a feeling Adam West leaves this one off his resume, along with Zombie Nightmare.


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Yakko says:
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Apr 2019
I liked this one. A Blu-ray is long overdue. The mausoleum is one of the largest in the country if I remember correctly, and it was in another movie that I can't now remember the name of.

Adam West was kind of wasted in this, with not a very big role. I remember reading someplace that his character was originally supposed to be more important to the story, but the script was rewritten at some point.

This is the movie with the one girl constantly chewing on an old toothbrush. That's probably the one thing that most people who have seen it will remember about it.


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sfpx says:
#8, Reply to #3

Apr 2019
Yep, tootbrush-chewing girl definitely stuck out in my young impressionable mind. Strange habit she had, but little details like that appeal to me, as random as they are.


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Tommix says:
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Apr 2019
I have not seen this, but you're making me want to. I will have to check this out. Your description of the mausoleum made me think of the church basement scenes in Children of the Night (1991). The movie is not always great, but some cool things about it are the church, the flooded church basement and the effects that go with it, and the way the vampires breathe when they are sleeping the sleep of the undead. (Ew).


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Tommix says:
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Apr 2019
PS Youtube seems to think One Dark Night was released in 1982.


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sfpx says:
#10, Reply to #5

Apr 2019
YouTube can be a no good filthy liar at times, but perhaps in this case it's right.


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Tommix says:
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Apr 2019
PSS Here, if you just watch the last couple minutes of this clip (which is the worst quality video clip on all of Youtube, so, sorry about that) you can (sort of) see the part of Children of the Night in the church and its flooded basement.
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sfpx says:
#9, Reply to #6

Apr 2019
You ain't lyin' about the bad quality. Never seen it, or even heard of it, I don't think.

Tommix, you're a funny one. When I saw I had five replies by you I thought what on Earth is going on?! Lol.


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Tommix says:
#11, Reply to #9

Apr 2019
Yeah, I got a little carried away there. emoticon

Children of the Night is not a fantastic movie, but it does have a few redeeming scenes. The church and church basement scenes are probably quite beautiful on blu ray, or in any high quality format. (It might be available on Laserdisc, God help us). And the way the vamps breathe is both disgusting and innovative, soooo that's good.


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Tommix says:
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Apr 2019
PSSSSSSSSSSSSSS the plot of the mean girls doing a fake initiation just to mess with a girl they don't like makes me think of The Grudge 2. Also... what the hell was that movie called... Sorority Row. Actually, not exactly that, but... sort of similar I guess.


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Box_a_Hair says:
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Apr 2019
I have this movie on dvd. I don't have many thoughts on it, as I thought it was kind of lackluster, but then again... it's been a minute since I've watched it. While I like Tom McLoughlin's "Jason Lives" and I like Meg Tilly's "Psycho II", this movie... yeah... it definitely needs a rewatch.

This was one of those movies I watched when I was jumping feet first into Italian and obscure horror. Great times, but I hardly remember the lot of them, because I was also getting baked. All the time.

I got it in one of those awesome Shriekshow triple feature sets with "Girls Nite Out" (1982), "One Dark Night" (1982), and "Blood Sisters" (1987). Even though I thought all of these movies sucked, their hearts were definitely in the right place, and I still think it's a good Shriekshow set.


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sfpx says:
#13, Reply to #12

Apr 2019
I firmly believe my nostalgia has a lot to do with it. It's just one of those things, you know? Everyone's got something they hold dear that others won't or can't understand. Maybe give it a re-watch one dark night, keep your expectations low, revel in that early 80s atmosphere and jump for joy during the floating corpses finale.


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