One Dark Night (1982 film)
One Dark Night, AKA Entity Force, Mausoleum, Rest in Peace, Dark Night, Night of Darkness, The Entity Force, Night in the Crypt (1982)
Summary
"A night to remember - until the day until you die!" A teen must spend the night in a mausoleum to join a club whose members plan to scare her.
Details
- Release Date: 1982
- Country/Language: US, English
- Genres/Technical: Horror
- Runtime: 1 hr 29 min
- Starring: Meg Tilly, Melissa Newman, Robin Evans
- Director: Thomas Tom McLoughlin
- Writer: Thomas Tom McLoughlin, Michael Hawes
- Producer/Production Co: Picture Company, The
- View Trailer: (link)
Ratings
MPAA Ratings
- Rated: PG (mild Violence and Adult Content?)
Tentacle Ratings
A rough measure of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:
- S____ (One Tentacle: Debateably Lovecraftian; has almost no direct connection to Lovecraft's work)
Apparently the atmosphere contributes to a "Lovecraftian" impression on some viewers, and perhaps the premise of a dead Russian psychic interred in a creepy mausoleum awakens from death as a kind of vampire/lich that feeds on terror helps (compare to "The Shunned House (fiction)").
Note: This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.
Reviews
Review Links:
- Drew Beard at Horror News dotnet, (link) - "...Truly one of those movies that is a category of its own... the film’s setting has a personality of its own and it helps elevate what might have other been a muffled misfire by a first-time movie director... much more suspenseful than I had expected given its somewhat conventional set-up...."
Synopsis
Spoiler Section (Highlight to Read)
As part of an initiation into a club called "the Sisters", a teen girl must spend the night in a mausoleum with the reanimated corpse of a dead Russian mystic.
Notes
Comments, Trivia, Dedication
Associated Mythos Elements
- fiction: compare to "The Shunned House (fiction)"
- film: compare to Poltergeist (1982 franchise), Evil Dead (1981 franchise), Phantasm (1979 franchise)
- race: Lich
- race: Deadites
