Excuse me, was this supposed to be a "horror" movie or just a "horrible" movie?
"Hell Night" makes the grave mistake (pardon the pun) of casting a bunch of long-in-the-tooth geezers as teenagers and making them slog through the old spend-a-night-in-a-haunted-house plotline while the ghost stories of a long-dead maniac still living in the house turn out to be all too true. Yee-haw.
There is NO suspense, NO tension, ZERO shocks, little to no blood (sorry, gore-hounds) and if the only talent in a movie like this is Linda Blair, that should tell you two things: the rest of the cast are no-names and - SPOILER(?) AHEAD - there's only gonna be one survivor.
Look, what kind of aficionado of these kind of films hasn't done the research on Blair? She's a battle-hardened veteran and has put up with much worse (just check out her filmography), especially when there's a killer as bargain-basement as this one. And it doesn't help to have Matthew Star and a Van Patten kid along for the ride.
Anything good about "Hell Night"? The mansion this is set in looks appropriately spooky and Blair is cute enough...and that's about it.
You want blood and shocks? Watch the news, it's more entertaining.
One star. For Blair. Darn it, if she wasn't so cute....
"Hell Night" makes the grave mistake (pardon the pun) of casting a bunch of long-in-the-tooth geezers as teenagers and making them slog through the old spend-a-night-in-a-haunted-house plotline while the ghost stories of a long-dead maniac still living in the house turn out to be all too true. Yee-haw.
There is NO suspense, NO tension, ZERO shocks, little to no blood (sorry, gore-hounds) and if the only talent in a movie like this is Linda Blair, that should tell you two things: the rest of the cast are no-names and - SPOILER(?) AHEAD - there's only gonna be one survivor.
Look, what kind of aficionado of these kind of films hasn't done the research on Blair? She's a battle-hardened veteran and has put up with much worse (just check out her filmography), especially when there's a killer as bargain-basement as this one. And it doesn't help to have Matthew Star and a Van Patten kid along for the ride.
Anything good about "Hell Night"? The mansion this is set in looks appropriately spooky and Blair is cute enough...and that's about it.
You want blood and shocks? Watch the news, it's more entertaining.
One star. For Blair. Darn it, if she wasn't so cute....