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?
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?
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.