Synopsis
Hell Night (1981) is a vintage slasher from director Tom DeSimone you can watch online on iFILM. As a fraternity initiation, four pledges have to last one night inside Garth Manor — twelve years after its owner slaughtered his own family there.
The upperclassmen rig the place for a prank: hidden speakers piping in groans, skeletons dropping out of closets, doors that slam on their own. For a while it plays like a game. Then the screams stop being staged, and someone is actually picking off the kids in the dark. Linda Blair — yes, the girl from The Exorcist — plays Marti, the one pledge keeping her head while the others bolt for exits that aren't there.
Made on a shoestring, it leans hard on its setting: a cavernous gothic house, fog, costume-party clothes, and long quiet stretches between the kills. If you came up on early-'80s horror, this is the genre before it learned to wink at itself. Stream Hell Night (1981) online on iFILM.
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