One Dark Night

1982
PG
1h 29m

IMDb RATING

5.6/10

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Meg Tilly and David Mason Daniels in One Dark Night (1982)

As part of an initiation into a club called the Sisters, a young girl must spend the night in a mausoleum.

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As part of an initiation into a club called the Sisters, a young girl must spend the night in a mausoleum.As part of an initiation into a club called the Sisters, a young girl must spend the night in a mausoleum.As part of an initiation into a club called the Sisters, a young girl must spend the night in a mausoleum.

Directors
- Tom McLoughlin
- Michael Schroeder
Writers
- Tom McLoughlin
- Michael Hawes
Stars

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IMDb RATING

5.6/10

YOUR RATING

Directors
- Tom McLoughlin
- Michael Schroeder
Writers
- Tom McLoughlin
- Michael Hawes
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 nomination total

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Storyline

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Trivia
Meg Tilly was incredibly uncomfortable in the actual mausoleum. Her reactions to her surroundings were often genuine. During the scenes where she was hysterical, she actually did throw herself into hysterics and it took her awhile after each take to calm herself down.

Goofs
When Carol and Kitty find Julie's stuff, it's not hers. In fact, it's their own, because they were shown leaving it there a few scenes back. Julie never left anything there.

Quotes
Steve: [Leslie keeps walking and Steve stops her, asking her where the Mausoleum is] Okay, Leslie, come on.
Leslie: What do you mean, 'come on'?
Steve: Well, you're gonna show me where it is.
Leslie: No! No way! I'm not going in that place! If you wanna go, YOU go, Hugo!
Steve: Thanks a lot. Those guys are in a lot of trouble now.
[Steve revs off to the Mausoleum and Leslie continues to walk home]

Alternate versions
Billed as the "Director's Cut," the alternative version of "One Dark Night" available on the Shriek Show DVD is the filmmaker's original cut, which doesn't include completed effects and music. Much of this version is comprised of alternative takes and additional dialogue, and it includes less of Melissa Newman, who producers expanded the role of.

Connections
Featured in Nightmares in Red, White and Blue: The Evolution of the American Horror Film (2009)

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Much better than its reputation suggests; watch for it!

The first sixty-or-so minutes of this undeservedly obscure horror film, when we're introduced to a fairly typical group of prankish teens, is unremarkable. However, the film offers a memorably horrifying climax that's well worth hanging on for: As the kids are setting up an elaborate practical joke in a mausoleum, a supernatural force causes numerous corpses, in varying stages of decay, to leave their coffins and pursue the now-terrified pranksters through the dark corridors. The film contains no gore (which is unusual for a horror movie of this period), but if your tastes run to ambulatory corpses it really delivers the goods. By the way, the film's shooting title was "Rest In Peace".