The Midnight Hour (1985 TV Movie)

Cindy Morgan: Vicky Jensen

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• Phil Grenville : Halloween. The holiday we now call Halloween used to be called All Hallow's Eve, and it was a pagan festival that fired upon the powers of darkness.

  [Vinnie slams his book on the floor] 

  Vicky Jensen : Okay guys, that's enough.

  Phil Grenville : Food left for wandering dead souls was how the idea of trick or treat got started, and costumes were worn, costumes were worn to scare away the evil spirits on the night they had the most power. In the early years of the town, Nathanial Grenville, my great, great, great, great grandfather, was minister and constable general. Anyhow these guys back then believed in all this stuff about witches, and as it so happened one of the most powerful witches came from right here in Pitchford Cove, or Pitchfork Cove as it got to be known because of what happened. And this witch was Lucinda, Grenville's slave, and the great, great, great, great grandmother of Melissa Cavender.

  Melissa Cavender : Great, great, I know, I know, we all know, it was that old black magic. Thank you.

  Phil Grenville : Lucinda brought a terrible curse on the town, Halloween was the best time to do it, when witchcraft is at its most powerful. All the legendary demons of hell were loosed, and the dead with unfinished business came back from the grave. Though no one knows how he did it, Nathanial Grenville, the witch hunter general as he was later called, put an end to the curse at midnight on Halloween, and all the demons were laid to rest. All except Lucinda who was hung in the town square in the early morning hours following Halloween. These wax figures of Lucinda and Nathanial Grenville, the witch and the witch hunter, are dressed in authentic period outfits passed down to the archives of the old church, which now house the witchcraft museum in the town square.

  Mitch Crandall : [whispers to Vinnie]  Hey, I got an idea. Yeah, I got a really hot idea.