Watch Hell Night For Free

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Taking part in a poll on ICM for the best films of 1981,I started to keep a look out for DVDs of titles from the year. Becoming more aware of her credits after a friend kindly gave me a personalised signed photo of her last October,I was taken aback to spot Linda Blair's 1981 flick in the local DVD shop!,which led to me getting set for a hellish night.The plot:Deciding to give four new students a challenge before they are welcomed into the group,the president of the Alpha Sigma Rho,gives Marti,Jeff,Seth and Denise the task of spending a night in haunted estate,which the lone survivor of a family massacre is said to haunt. Desperate to join the group,each of them decides to take part. Using the estate as an urban legends,members of Alpha Sigma go to the estate to freak the four out by pretending to be ghosts. As they start making spooky sounds,the Alpha Sigma discover to their horror that they have stepped on an estate whose resident does not want any visitors.View on the film:Made during a (how should we word this?...) "hazy" phase in her life,Linda Blair gives a very good performance as Marti,whose "Final Girl" innocence allows Blair to show a Gothic Horror queen reserve manner,which is torn by Blair getting Marti to show some guts in the final Slasher phase of the flick. Stumbling round as the "jock" goofball, Vincent Van Patten gives a terrific performance as Seth,with Patten using Seth's comedic exchanges with Denise to show some wits which become more prominent as the night of hell begins.Initially looking like a typical dumb frat party Slasher movie,the first screenplay by Randy Feldman reveals the satirical bite that Feldman would later use on Tango and Cash. Playing around with Seth being annoyed at just being seen as a complete idiot,Feldman turns the "dumb jock" image of Seth into someone who actually shows intelligence over how to survive the night,which allows for a firm bond to be made between the four. Whilst being a bit inconsistent with the mythology of the estate,Feldman pushes those flaws aside with a delicious blend of the Haunted House and Slasher film,as the creepy things that go bump in the night that the four hear,is smashed by elaborate body count slayings.Making one of his few non-"Adult" flicks,director Tom DeSimone (who reunited with Blair as a co-director on Savage Streets) and cinematographer Mac Ahlberg (who later worked on Re-Animator) give the hellish night an eye-catching,stylised appearance,via slightly "mis—framed" shots bringing attention to the evil bubbling behind the gang. Filmed in three different locations, DeSimone cleverly makes it all look like one location,thanks to whip-pans and overlapping shots circling the estate,as the hell night unfolds.

Linda Blair, Peter Barton, Vincent Van Patten, Suki Goodwin and Kevin Brophy star in this 1981 horror film. Blair (The Exorcist) plays college student, Marti who pledges a sister sorority of Alpha Sigma Rho. She and 3 others are forced to spend the night in a deserted house, Garth Manor where murders occurred 12 years prior. Soon, Marti and the others become terrorized by a mysterious killer who may be a surviving member of the family. Barton (Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter) plays Jeff, a boy who Marti finds romance with, Van Patten plays Seth, Goodwin plays Marti's friend, Denise and Brophy plays Peter, President of the Alpha Sigma Rho frat. This isn't a bad film and Blair is good in it. If you like horror/slasher flicks, give this one a try.

I didn't expect much from this film. I figured it would be a campy 1980s horror flick. Let's face it, if you've seen Linda Blair act before, then you know this movie can't be all that good. The only time she did a convincing performance was in the Exorcist and even then the makeup and effects pretty much did all the acting for her.I watched this movie anyway so I could see the "exciting" and "clever" ending, of which many of the other reviewer have spoken. Are they kidding? "Exciting," "clever"? All she did was drive the car into a fence and the guy got impaled. So what? It wasn't even that good and certainly not worth sitting through the rest of the movie. There wasn't even nudity to give this movie at least some value. Even when they came close to nudity it was the most lame sex scene that I'd ever seen in my life. Basically it was two kids in their underwear rolling on the bed and laughing and talking, the scene of which was peppered nearly throughout the entire movie.Sorry other reviewers, this movie isn't worth the time to watch it.

Hell Night is an 80's slasher with a little added class and sophistication to it's production. Linda Blair, star of the Exorcist, plays Marti in this thriller about a group of pledges that have to stay in a haunted mansion over night as a part of their initiation. The mansion is Garth Manor and the story goes that the man who lived there more than a decade ago, murdered his entire family. The legend is that one member of the Garth family survived, and roams the empty corridors of the deserted estate. Once inside the manor, Marti and her three friends soon discover that two frat boys are playing pranks to spook them. But very soon, they realize that something is very wrong when one of their own turns up dead.I really like the style of Hell Night. It is an eighties film, but definitely has the feel of the old classic monster movies from the fifties. There are also some genuine scares when the ghoul pops up out of nowhere to strike his next victim. The monster's make up is also done really well. He looks realistic and almost human like. The characters are pretty likable too, with Linda Blair and Peter Barton leading the way. Pretty decent acting all around.Some things I had problems with where the overall legend of Garth Manor and whether or not there were two killers or one. The story is never really fully explained to the viewers, it almost would have been the same if they hadn't had a back story to the manor at all. There is also the question of is their two killers. I always took it that there was just one. That's how the story of Garth Manor is also written. Check this one out, it's one of the more unique of the 80's slashers flicks.8/10