One Dark Night (1983)

User Rating:

5.3/10   

Director:

Tom McLoughlin

Writers:

Tom McLoughlin (written by) &
Michael Hawes (written by)

Release Date:

February 1983 (USA)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

A night to remember - until the day until you die!

Plot:

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

Plot Keywords:

Mausoleum | Death | Murder | Zombie | Ghost

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Meg Tilly	...	Julie Wells
Melissa Newman	...	Olivia McKenna
Robin Evans	...	Carol Mason
Leslie Speights	...	Kitty
Donald Hotton	...	Dockstader
Elizabeth Daily	...	Leslie Winslow
David Mason Daniels	...	Steve
Adam West	...	Allan
Leo Gorcey Jr.	...	Barlow
Rhio H. Blair	...	Coroner
Larry Carroll	...	T.V. Reporter
Katee McClure	...	Female Reporter
Kevin Peter Hall	...	Eddie
Theodore Lehmann	...	Drunk (as Ted Lehman)
Nancy Mott	...	Lucy

Also Known As:

Dark Night (UK) (video title)
Entity Force
Mausoleum
Night in the Crypt
Night of Darkness (UK) (video title)
Rest in Peace
The Entity Force (UK) (video title)

Runtime:

94 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:16 | UK:18 (1987 video release) | Australia:M | Norway:18 | UK:15 | USA:PG

Filming Locations:

2nd Street Tunnel, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Picture Company, The

Trivia:

Kitty's habit of chewing on a toothbrush was based on a mutual friend of Tom McLoughlin and Michael Hawes. They thought it was such an endearing character quirk that they put it in the film.

Quotes:

Kitty: Let's book up!
Leslie: What's the big rush?
Carol: I wanna get there before it closes, nerdle brain!
Leslie: Nerdle brain; very nice.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Shocking Truth (2000) (V)

A Night To Remember Until The Day You Die

Multiply named and strangely casted, "One Dark Night" aka "Mausoleum", is one of the better early horror video-rentals. Original and quite raw, we meet Adam West briefly in this film about telekinesis and teen-age headgames. Meg Tilly is dared into spending the night in a crypt by "The Sisters" a high-school gang of hair-hoppers in blue satin jackets. The initiation is interrupted by the recently interred body of a mass-murdering psychic wizard called "Raymar". Surprisingly awesome make-up and scare effects paints this chiller film with style and deliver a heart-pounding climax.