Happy Hell Night
(Demon/Frat/Institution)                             8********skulls

*Lots of Blood* *Very Violent* *Strong Sexual Language* *Nudity* *Sexual Situations* *Very Gory*

1991/Color/ Min./Quest Entertainment & Pavlina Ltd./Peterson Productions & Malius, Inc./Canada/Yugoslavia/Not Rated

Director........Brian Owens
Screenplay..Brian Owens & Ron Peterson & Michael Fitzpatrick           Music............Nenad Bach
Producer......Leslie Sunshine & Pavlina Proevska
Special Effects & Make-up by Gabe Bartalos & Joel Harlow
                             & Stanislaw Zaric

Dramatis Personae
Henry Collins...Darrin McGavin* (The Nightstalker, A Christmas Story)
Eric..................Nick Gregory
Sonny..............Franke Hughes
Liz...................Laura Carney
Ned Bara.........Ted Clark
Malius.............Charles Cragin
Father Cane....Janez Vrhovec
Jake...............Robert Restraind
Ralph.............Jeffrey Miller
Sheriff............Winston May
Young Cane....Irfan Mensur
Young Henry...Sam Rockwell

Critique: The priest is at times as funny as he is scary as he announces the transgressions of his plentiful victims before making a bloody mess of them, "No TV!".The pace is fine and what with all the blood and screaming and the priests pickax, the idea of being trapped in a dark house with this thing as barely followed by Bera's closed-circuit camera system is scary. The good acting, slick production and the sets (mausoleum, asylum, and frat house) create a wonderful horror movie atmosphere Why isn't Darren McGavin president? We love him. Give him a YIKES! Award!

Plot Summary: A stormy night at the rather scary and unethical asylum where they have one patient on whom they check "twice a week, just to see if he's still alive." The mean orderly there forces  to take a look she screams 25 years he doesn't move or speak one theory is that he eats the bugs. Seems like he's waiting for something more stupid college students 25 years earlier a young priest awakens by a student in trouble (the young Henry Collins) on hell night who leads him to a mausoleum full of slaughtered students and a monster priest covered with blood Winfield College 1991 preparations are under way at Phi Delta Sigma for the annual Hell Night when the idiot pledges are forced to outdo each other's stupidity to gain entrance to a guild of idiots. That being the goal, Phi Delta house would seem an appropriate choice. A loser named Ralph and Sonny, the successful motorcycle champion brother of a frat member, Eric Collins. Ned Berra, another nerd who hosts his own closed circuit tv show and a radio show as well Berra Beat is offering his third annual prize for stupidest stunt. He has an idea based on a story he read about a maniac in an local asylum who 25 years earlier had massacred Phi Delta after they disturbed his sleep in the mausoleum. His proposal; the pledges are to break into the asylum and photograph the mad monk. As a nice side story, the motorcycle kid is having a torrid affair with his brother's girlfriend, Liz.. The Police chief , who knows the father of the suitor brothers, warns the kids to keep their pranks close to home this year. It seems Ned Bera stole articles about the murder and a plan to the sanatorium and this has the police suspiciously unsettled. When big boy asks his father about the murders he is mortified and leaves for the university without further word. The pledges hop on Sonny's Motorcycle and head off to photograph the asylums scariest guest. Lucky for us only Sonny gets away, whoops, make that Sonny and the released radical priest Malius. The mention of the prank and the family name Collins does more than make the priest nervous, he insists that phi delta be evacuated and prepares to confront the evil suspecting the worst as he write a note explaining his attempt to stop this cunning and powerful force. Too late father. It's up to the kids at Phi Delta to stop Malius brutal killing spree in the dark (no electricity).Darren McGavin performed the ritual of the calling dad Henry Collin No matter where they go or hide it will find them, they must complete the ritual in the place of the calling, the mausoleum, and rid the world of the evil. Only the girlfriend knows Latin, thus an  The demon is as clever as they thought, ask Mr. Collin, whoops ask Sonny, whoops, oh forget it. and sons! He's ugly too.