Happy Hell Night (Blu-ray)

PLOT...The devil's henchman escapes from an asylum and stops at a fraternity house he visited 25 years before.If you love good fun slashers of the 80's then you will enjoy Happy Hell Night! Released in 1992 when the slasher was still hanging around the video stores, its a cheesy acted movie with a simple classic tale of a killer coming back after being covered up by the town folk for years, now a bunch of college kids are up for the chop! There's plenty blood and gore and limbs getting chopped off, all good old practical effects too which looks so much better. if you collect these 88Films slasher classics its certainly one for the collection, a Halloween night popcorn slasher for sure.Blu-ray has a decent HD picture transfer.Features include a commentary, 15min interview with one of the girls, plus a composer interview. trailer.Reversible sleeve with the alternate title FRAT NIGHT.Region B, Running time 87mins, 1992/2017.English language, English subtitles.

Old 80s movie... not that good!

Never seen this movie beforeTook a gamble on itWas a good 80’s slasher film

Would reommend buying the UK 88films edition over the US Code Red edition. The UK edition has got better picture quality, more special features and is cheaper (about one third of the price compared to the Code Red version).

The movie has more holes in it than a swiss cheese - the acting is ok mostly, but the real killer is the continuity errors that totally wreck the flow of things...very disappointing indeed.

got what i paid for

The stupidity of the two brothers was beyond belief. It irritates me when people behave as the script writer wants them to, rather than doing what any sane person would do in that situation

The diabolically divined ‘Happy Hell Night (1991) remains a riotously entertaining, independently financed horror film that certainly did its un-level headed best to revivify the by-then supine slasher movie, a previously played out genre, cliché corrupted, now demoniacally reborn in the early 90s by some hellaciously destructive ancient malediction, misguidedly summoned from despicable portals by the neophyte occult tinkering of a young-looking Sam Rockwell. Thusly awakened, this grossly malign, teen-creaming, doomily-quipping hell-priest Zachary Malius (Charles Cragin) can quite legitimately be added to the gruesome pantheon of maniacal, spleen-stealing, skull-splitting, mass murdering misfits that proved to be such a franchise building lure for serial video splatter junkies and creep-loving cinephiles during the wide-scream dream for much of the 1980s.With the film’s singularly disorientating, mood-altering mix of Canadian/Slovenian locations and distinctly schizoid nature, shifting bluntly from bellicose B-Movie ‘stalk n’ slash’ into a psychotic morass of rampant devilry, while occasionally baffling merely increases the lurid lustre of an already gloriously defective, satanically slashing hellride! All that being said, overly diligent analysis of these scurrilous shenanigans may well dilute the perverse pleasures to be found in ‘Happy Hell Night’, as once this benighted Hell Night hootenanny has been savagely crashed by perfidious party pooper Malius, his quite prodigious death repertoire includes a wealth of wickedly warped slaughter!Technical aspects of the film are uniformly top notch, especially notable being the magnificently moody photography by ace cameraman Sol Negrin, making excellent use of eerie chiaroscuro lighting effects, starkly effective when we first (partially) see the disturbing, preternaturally still figure of imprisoned demonic priest Malius anciently festering inside his dreadfully barren cell. The splendidly splashy make-up FX by notorious chunk-blowing wizard Gabe ‘Spookies’ Bartolos remain a fleshy delight to behold and director Brian Owens creditably keeps all the boisterously demon-charged carnage careening along at a bracingly blasphemous, eye-popping rate!