Hell Night

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Hell Night
Hell Night DVD cover
Directed by	Tom DeSimone
Produced by	Irwin Yablans Bruce Cohn Curtis
Written by	Randy Feldman
Starring	Linda Blair Vincent Van Patten Peter Barton
Music by	Dan Wyman
Cinematography	Mac Ahlberg
Editing by	Anthony DiMarco
Distributed by	Compass International Pictures
Release date(s)	28 August 1981 (USA)
Running time	101 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
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Hell Night is a 1981 horror film that was directed by Tom DeSimone and written by Randy Feldman.

Contents 1 Plot (some spoilers ahead) 1.1 Cast 2 Trivia 3 External links

[edit] Plot (some spoilers ahead)

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?

[edit] Cast

• Linda Blair - Marti
• Vincent Van Patten - Seth
• Peter Barton - Jeff Reed
• Kevin Brophy - Peter Bennett
• Jenny Neumann - May
• Suki Goodwin - Denise Dunsmore
• Jimmy Sturtevant - Scott
• Hal Ralston - Older Cop
• Carey Fox - Younger Cop
• Ronald Gans - Driver
• Gloria Heilman - Party Girl

[edit] Trivia

• Filming took 40 days.
• 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.
• The hedge maze was brought in as there was no actual garden maze on the mansion property.
• 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.
• The majority of the movie was shot in three locations. The outside of Garth Manor was shot at a mansion in Redlands, California. 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 mansion used as Garth Manor is now a museum in Redlands, California -the owners made the change from private residence to a museum shortly after filming was completed on the movie.
• 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."

[edit] External links

• Hell Night at the Internet Movie Database
• Terror Trap's "Hell Night" page