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Hell Night
Why this pick
Its college initiation premise, imposing old mansion, and isolated young ensemble deliver the same glossy early-’80s slasher mood, with suspense built around who can survive the night.
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MOVIE1982 1h 31m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Seven sorority sisters Katey, Vicki, Liz, Jeanie, Diane, Morgan, and Stevie celebrate their graduation ceremony at their sorority house, located at the far end of a Fraternities and sororities#Residency. Their celebration is interrupted by their domineering house mother, Mrs. Slater, who denies the girls' plan to throw a graduation party. The girls then devise a prank: They steal her walking cane and place it in the house's unused outdoor pool and force her at gunpoint to retrieve it. The prank goes awry when Vicki inadvertently shoots Slater, who appears to be dead. The girls agree to hide the body in the pool until their party ends.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Kate McNeil
Katherine
Eileen Davidson
Vicki
Janis Ward
Liz
Lois Kelso Hunt
Mrs. Slater
Michael Sergio
Rick
Jean Schertler
Nurse
Nanna Ingvarsson
Freshman Girl #3
Harley Jane Kozak
Diane