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Hell Night1981

Name: Hell Night
Genre: Slasher, Ghosts & Haunting, Survival
Released: 1981-08-28
Rating: 5.5

“Scream and you're dead!”

Directed by Tom DeSimone

5.5

Crypt Score

Blended from 4 sources

IMDb 5.6Rotten Tomatoes 57%Metacritic 36TMDB 5.5

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Year

1981

Runtime

101 min

Box Office

🏆 1 win & 1 nomination total

The premise

As an initiation rite into Alpha Sigma Rho fraternity, four pledges must spend a night in Garth Manor, twelve years to the day after the previous resident murdered his entire family.

Horror Vault's take

Four college pledges are dared to spend the night in Garth Manor — a crumbling estate with a blood-soaked past — as part of a fraternity initiation gone very wrong. What begins as a rite of passage quickly becomes a desperate fight for survival as the manor's secrets prove far more dangerous than any prank. Linda Blair leads the cast through a slow-burn night of escalating dread, where the line between legend and lethal reality collapses. Hell Night delivers old-school gothic atmosphere alongside its slasher thrills, setting it apart from its more brash early-80s contemporaries.

Content: Violence, Murder, Depictions Of Physical Deformity

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