I have seen many bad horror movies,but "Night of Terror" is easily among the worst horror movies of 80's.The action takes place in a mental hospital full of mentally challenged patients.Renee Harmon is constantly hallucinating and her visions are taken from "Frozen Scream".There's also a creepy doctor,Harmon talking with a thick German accent,a ghost,some teenagers,a Gypsy psychic,some hooded assailants ala Sunn O))),a masked psycho killer and a melting living corpse.Utterly incomprehensible and amateurish piece of crap with enough weirdness to satisfy fans of low-budget trash.After watching this movie you will never be the same and you will never want to see Felix Girard use any kind of storytelling device ever again.3 out of 10.Only for the lovers of extremely BAD cinema.
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If you love your films bad, boring, and confusing, by all means!
sNate872 October 2019
I'll also add for the fans of cheesy 80's horror, absolutely nudity or gore (save for the final five minutes) either! The only enjoyable part of this film is a two minute scene towards the end that's slightly trippy and features the film's only gore/effects moment. That could work out totally fine if this film was an enjoyable slow burn, but that it is far from. With everything you had to suffer through just to get that one cool scene, who cares?!
Where to begin on this one... There seems to be about seven or eight subplots going at once, none of them interesting. It mainly follows around a woman who's trying to decide whether or not she's still crazy. And man, does she like to talk! The movie is compromised mainly of endless dialogue scenes, occasionally jumping into a random 80's dance party featuring a live band for several minutes. We're also treated to random cuts into stock footage (with a MAJOR jump in quality) of another film featuring the same lead actress. I originally thought this footage was going to pan out and it would be playing on a TV or something. Nope. Supposedly it's the character's "visions". Cool.
About the only thing that saved this movie from being a total dud was that scene mentioned before, and the fact I got a kick out of all the bad acting and dialogue; the teenagers in particular. I normally love everything Massacre Video puts out, but you can definitely skip this one. You know, unless you're like me and have to seek out every single bad horror movie ever made.
Where to begin on this one... There seems to be about seven or eight subplots going at once, none of them interesting. It mainly follows around a woman who's trying to decide whether or not she's still crazy. And man, does she like to talk! The movie is compromised mainly of endless dialogue scenes, occasionally jumping into a random 80's dance party featuring a live band for several minutes. We're also treated to random cuts into stock footage (with a MAJOR jump in quality) of another film featuring the same lead actress. I originally thought this footage was going to pan out and it would be playing on a TV or something. Nope. Supposedly it's the character's "visions". Cool.
About the only thing that saved this movie from being a total dud was that scene mentioned before, and the fact I got a kick out of all the bad acting and dialogue; the teenagers in particular. I normally love everything Massacre Video puts out, but you can definitely skip this one. You know, unless you're like me and have to seek out every single bad horror movie ever made.
Wow
BandSAboutMovies20 January 2023
Warning: Spoilers
The one and done directorial work of Felix Girard, Night of Terror was written by Renee Harmon, who went from being in an acting group in Texas with fellow Army officer's wives to roles in Al Adamson's Cinderella 2000 as well as Frozen Scream, Lady Streetfigher, Van Nuys Blvd., Jungle Trap and Hell Riders. She also stars Chris Nilsen, who is being kept in a mental hospital against her will by her philandering husband Alex (Henry Lewis) and Dr. Seymour Harper (Frank Neuhaus), who just wants to experiment on his patients in a very Hellhole scenario.
Her lawyer finally gets her released and she moves into the former home of Harper - bad idea - and becomes friends with Harper's wife Ellen (Lynn Whitmire) - bad idea again - and stays there even after learning that Harper's mistress Inez (Susette Andres) was killed there in the worst of all these ideas. If that doesn't just beat all, there's also a hooded would-be giallo killer in the form of Harper's patient Paul Peterson (Steven Neuhardt) who is haunting the house as well.
Somehow, in the midst of all of this, we get to see Chris' stepdaughter Becky (Lauren Brent) go to a pool party where a new wave band plays and by plays, I mean we hear the entire song and not just a clip of them.
As all of this is happening, Chris also meets Paul's psychic mother Celeste (Arline Specht) who uses an Ouija board - oh man, Ouija and SOV in the same movie, alert my Letterboxd lists - to introduce our protagonist to her spirit guide Julian.
Obviously this was also produced by Harmon, so no one told her not to speak in an impenetrable accent - to be fair, she was born in Mannheim, Germany but had lived in the U. S. for some time and there's usually always a second take but come on, there wasn't we all know that - or play scenes from Frozen Scream as happening at the same time as this tale, despite that movie being made ten years or more before that.
That said, I kind of love this whole enterprise. From Paul wearing a full set of fancy pajamas while supposedly in a mental hospital - topped by the bald female patient who looks to be wearing an outfit from a combination fast food restaurant and Nickelodeon game show - this is a movie full of choices, so few of those choices being ones that make the slightest sense. It also has a Night Killer-level scene of its lead character having a long conversation with herself in a mirror and you know how much I love that.
This is also a film that ends with potential forced surgery and a ghost melting her face in front of everyone, as well as Paul being absolved of all the murders he's committed and yet stalking our heroine in a twist sting that made me laugh at the sheer ridiculousness of it all.
Keep in mind as you watch this that Renee Harmon was an acting teacher in East Texas and yes, of course she was. She should have been. More people should make movies like Night of Terror, which is also called Escape from the Insane Asylum. There are Dutch angles, sure, but there's also a scene where Harmon screams at herself and puts lipstick all over her face and man, that's cinema.
Her lawyer finally gets her released and she moves into the former home of Harper - bad idea - and becomes friends with Harper's wife Ellen (Lynn Whitmire) - bad idea again - and stays there even after learning that Harper's mistress Inez (Susette Andres) was killed there in the worst of all these ideas. If that doesn't just beat all, there's also a hooded would-be giallo killer in the form of Harper's patient Paul Peterson (Steven Neuhardt) who is haunting the house as well.
Somehow, in the midst of all of this, we get to see Chris' stepdaughter Becky (Lauren Brent) go to a pool party where a new wave band plays and by plays, I mean we hear the entire song and not just a clip of them.
As all of this is happening, Chris also meets Paul's psychic mother Celeste (Arline Specht) who uses an Ouija board - oh man, Ouija and SOV in the same movie, alert my Letterboxd lists - to introduce our protagonist to her spirit guide Julian.
Obviously this was also produced by Harmon, so no one told her not to speak in an impenetrable accent - to be fair, she was born in Mannheim, Germany but had lived in the U. S. for some time and there's usually always a second take but come on, there wasn't we all know that - or play scenes from Frozen Scream as happening at the same time as this tale, despite that movie being made ten years or more before that.
That said, I kind of love this whole enterprise. From Paul wearing a full set of fancy pajamas while supposedly in a mental hospital - topped by the bald female patient who looks to be wearing an outfit from a combination fast food restaurant and Nickelodeon game show - this is a movie full of choices, so few of those choices being ones that make the slightest sense. It also has a Night Killer-level scene of its lead character having a long conversation with herself in a mirror and you know how much I love that.
This is also a film that ends with potential forced surgery and a ghost melting her face in front of everyone, as well as Paul being absolved of all the murders he's committed and yet stalking our heroine in a twist sting that made me laugh at the sheer ridiculousness of it all.
Keep in mind as you watch this that Renee Harmon was an acting teacher in East Texas and yes, of course she was. She should have been. More people should make movies like Night of Terror, which is also called Escape from the Insane Asylum. There are Dutch angles, sure, but there's also a scene where Harmon screams at herself and puts lipstick all over her face and man, that's cinema.
Trash, Stay Aawy From This Film
jakebabee14 April 2009
Warning: Spoilers
O.K I know a lot of you really want to add this movie to your Palace Explosive Video collection. And even just see it for its obscurity . Well don't, it is the worst movie a have ever seen in my whole life and that is saying something as I'm a big fan of B grade 80's horror e.g. (boarding-house, blood beat, rats night of terror etc) This movie is just boring and looks like it has been shot on a video camera. So the movie starts we are in a mental hospital with some very bad actors trying as hard as they can to act crazy (one of the patients has a little doll she looks very fond of, then a crazy girl comes up and says I'm going to kill your doll. Umm o.k.) The main actress in the movie is played by Renee Harmon, A German actress who know one will understand as her English is very bad . She has been admitted by her husband to stay at the hospital , when really she is not crazy he is just out to make her look that way so he can take her money and use it on this brain operation thing he has invented which has a few BAD side effects . So she gets out of the hospital and endeavors to find out what her husband is up to .
There is no gore in this movie really. Long dull scenes that are absolutely pointless, awful characters. The ending is very bad. And you just want the lead actress to die the minute she enters on the screen (which she never does) Oh and one more thing , there is stock footage from a completely different film that randomly pops up every 15 minutes or so. I may of made this movie sound like fun. But it really isn't. You Are Warned!!!
There is no gore in this movie really. Long dull scenes that are absolutely pointless, awful characters. The ending is very bad. And you just want the lead actress to die the minute she enters on the screen (which she never does) Oh and one more thing , there is stock footage from a completely different film that randomly pops up every 15 minutes or so. I may of made this movie sound like fun. But it really isn't. You Are Warned!!!
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fgirard11 February 2011
Awesome B movie, you will laugh, and great memories of the 80's, April 27, 2010 By Lynette R. Alba - See all my reviews (REAL NAME) Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: Night of Terror (DVD) This movie was a spoof parody of how the B movies were made. The random dialect will keep you laughing through out. Me and my two older children had the best evening together watching and laughing, all the music is an original score. Little creepy. Buy it watch it. If you like B movies that remind you of your youth, you will be a happy purchaser.
Story line is about mad scientists performing brain surgery on unsuspecting patients and turning them into trained killers. Can the teenagers, the psychic, the nurse, the doctors, the patients, the party guests, the rock band and the street people all survive this haunted night of terror? Probably not many!
Story line is about mad scientists performing brain surgery on unsuspecting patients and turning them into trained killers. Can the teenagers, the psychic, the nurse, the doctors, the patients, the party guests, the rock band and the street people all survive this haunted night of terror? Probably not many!
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