Happy Hell Night
25 years ago at Winfield College, psycho-priest Zachary Malius murdered seven frat boys and was put away in the local asylum. Now, however, the same fraternity stages a prank from which Malius is inadvertently set free and returns to the house to repeat his crime...
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- Cast:
- Nick Gregory , Sam Rockwell , Darren McGavin , Charles Cragin , Frank John Hughes , Jorja Fox , Irfan Mensur
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Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.
This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.
Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.
"Happy Hell Night" came out at a time when the slasher craze had well and truly died, as the same ideas were being recycled over and over again, and this one is no different, here we have a killer priest who escapes from a mental hospital after 25 years for murdering a group of college students and surprise surprise, he sets out to do it again to a new group of college kids.Happy Hell Night is an OK effort and I actually liked it more than I thought I would, once the first half hour is over and the killer priest starts killing, it actually starts livening up and there are some touches in the gore department, but I could have done without the stupid cheesy one liners from the killer, as it would have made him a whole lot creepier, and the supernatural element was done rather well and it does set it apart from the other slasher fodder that came out during this point.All in all "Happy Hell Night" is an okay movie once it gets going although it does take quite a while and the cast weren't very interesting but they do get killed which is a bonus, and this movie may just be another run of the mill early 90's slasher, but it's still OK.
Amateurish direction, bad acting and a weak script are the best parts of this awful movie. Plot holes, inadequate character motivations, choppy editing and an overall lack of film-making skills. One often wonders who lets these people direct movies. I suppose this is one of those movies financed by a rich relative. It is just typical of the phrase "They'll let anybody direct a movie these days."I watched this because I'm a big Darren McGavin fan. Too bad he didn't end his career with his stellar turn in "The Natural" instead of taking this home movie as a job.
Happy Hell Night missed their decade by a few years. I believe that's why the movie is so obscure and not very well received. It had a lot of bad characters, choppy editing, and a wasted Darrin McGavin. There also seemed to be some missing ingredients. We would see a character sitting in a chair and the next time we saw that character he would be dead on the floor with no explanation. It does have the creepiest killer since Barlow from Salem's Lot though. There were also some very creepy moments in the film, just too few of them. If the whole film would have taken on the tone of "Scary Jesus" scene, the film would have been great. Other than that, this is not the best fraternity prank/slasher film. How to do it right: Hell Night. How to do is so terrible wrong that it becomes right: Pledge Night. This film is somewhere in between those two and, thus, not as enjoyable. Keep an eye out for a pre-fame Sam Rockwell and Jorja Fox.
i was really entertained by this movie it got scares and some one-liner jokes by the killer which cracked my jaw from laughing,but then again,the movie got a nice horror story which is (in summary:2 guys trying to take a picture of a prisoner(who happened to be a devil-worshipper wearing a priest costume) in an old asylum,and guess what happened later ,of course, all hell breaking loose :)end summarythe cast did well here,the gore and blood were not enough though for my taste (im bald too )however ,genre fans will really enjoy this movie