One Dark Night
1982·Horror·1h 34m
7.0
★
A strange man named Karl Rhamarevich dies shortly after discovering a way to become even more powerful in death through telekinesis. On the night of his burial in a crypt, Julie is to spend the night there as part of an initiation rite, supervised by two other girls. The crypt becomes a scene of horror as Raymar returns to life and deploys his horrifying telekinetic powers.
Directed by Tom McLoughlin
mind control
telekinesis
reanimation
super power
initiation
living dead
mausoleum
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Cast
Meg Tilly
Julie Wells
Melissa Newman
Olivia McKenna
Robin Evans
Carol Mason
Donald Hotton
Samuel Dockstader
Adam West
Allan McKenna
E. G. Daily
Leslie Winslow
Kevin Peter Hall
Eddie
Leo Gorcey Jr.
Barlow
Crew
Tom McLoughlin
Director
Tom McLoughlin
Writer
Michael Schroeder
Producer
Popular Reviews
19 reviews
Whitney
***Hooptober 12
🎃 Road to 31 Films 🎃***
Would make for a great double feature with Suicide Bid from VHS 99!
Jason Lives is obviously this directors masterpiece, but I found this to be mostly great. Maybe I’m just saying that because I’ve been to that mausoleum and it is seriously breathtaking.
🎃 Road to 31 Films 🎃***
Would make for a great double feature with Suicide Bid from VHS 99!
Jason Lives is obviously this directors masterpiece, but I found this to be mostly great. Maybe I’m just saying that because I’ve been to that mausoleum and it is seriously breathtaking.
***Hooptober 12
🎃 Road to 31 Films 🎃***
Would make for a great double feature with Suicide Bid from VHS 99!
Jason Lives is obviously this directors masterpiece, but I found this to be mostly great. Maybe I’m just saying that because I’ve been to that mausoleum and it is seriously breathtaking.
🎃 Road to 31 Films 🎃***
Would make for a great double feature with Suicide Bid from VHS 99!
Jason Lives is obviously this directors masterpiece, but I found this to be mostly great. Maybe I’m just saying that because I’ve been to that mausoleum and it is seriously breathtaking.
jack
5.0★ · 09/22/25
“she’s gonna get so messed up, she won’t know what’s going on”
another deep cut horror, and this ones probably one of my favourite so far. a girl joins a sorority, and she most spend a night in this random building, they all pull a prank on her but what they don’t know is that the building is infested by whacky creatures. the final act is just starlight up great, it has unsettling and almost campy practical effects, and really memorable telekinetic corpses, it’s really claustrophobic with constant ghouls shooting lasers out their eyes. unlike many slashers, it differentiates itself by adding a really fun supernatural twist, it’s relatively nostalgia 80s post friday the 13th horror. this film also has a decent lead performance, as meg tilly lets you sympathise with her ad the convincing vulnerable protagonist with a bunch of girls at her throat. the sound is also really ominous, and even a little over the top at some points. one big reason this isn’t any higher for me is it’s just a really slow movie, which wastes its time on simple teenage rivalry and only leaving the last act really for anything of substance to actually happen. the acting is a little uneven with its teenage cast giving amateurish portrayals, but yeah that adds to the campy factor. some of the subplots seem unnecessary and pointless. this film was extremely limited by its budget, some effects seem dated and it’s got no explicit violence, only atmosphere. this actually was fun, but takes way too long to pick up.
another deep cut horror, and this ones probably one of my favourite so far. a girl joins a sorority, and she most spend a night in this random building, they all pull a prank on her but what they don’t know is that the building is infested by whacky creatures. the final act is just starlight up great, it has unsettling and almost campy practical effects, and really memorable telekinetic corpses, it’s really claustrophobic with constant ghouls shooting lasers out their eyes. unlike many slashers, it differentiates itself by adding a really fun supernatural twist, it’s relatively nostalgia 80s post friday the 13th horror. this film also has a decent lead performance, as meg tilly lets you sympathise with her ad the convincing vulnerable protagonist with a bunch of girls at her throat. the sound is also really ominous, and even a little over the top at some points. one big reason this isn’t any higher for me is it’s just a really slow movie, which wastes its time on simple teenage rivalry and only leaving the last act really for anything of substance to actually happen. the acting is a little uneven with its teenage cast giving amateurish portrayals, but yeah that adds to the campy factor. some of the subplots seem unnecessary and pointless. this film was extremely limited by its budget, some effects seem dated and it’s got no explicit violence, only atmosphere. this actually was fun, but takes way too long to pick up.
“she’s gonna get so messed up, she won’t know what’s going on”
another deep cut horror, and this ones probably one of my favourite so far. a girl joins a sorority, and she most spend a night in this random building, they all pull a prank on her but what they don’t know is that the building is infested by whacky creatures. the final act is just starlight up great, it has unsettling and almost campy practical effects, and really memorable telekinetic corpses, it’s really claustrophobic with constant ghouls shooting lasers out their eyes. unlike many slashers, it differentiates itself by adding a really fun supernatural twist, it’s relatively nostalgia 80s post friday the 13th horror. this film also has a decent lead performance, as meg tilly lets you sympathise with her ad the convincing vulnerable protagonist with a bunch of girls at her throat. the sound is also really ominous, and even a little over the top at some points. one big reason this isn’t any higher for me is it’s just a really slow movie, which wastes its time on simple teenage rivalry and only leaving the last act really for anything of substance to actually happen. the acting is a little uneven with its teenage cast giving amateurish portrayals, but yeah that adds to the campy factor. some of the subplots seem unnecessary and pointless. this film was extremely limited by its budget, some effects seem dated and it’s got no explicit violence, only atmosphere. this actually was fun, but takes way too long to pick up.
another deep cut horror, and this ones probably one of my favourite so far. a girl joins a sorority, and she most spend a night in this random building, they all pull a prank on her but what they don’t know is that the building is infested by whacky creatures. the final act is just starlight up great, it has unsettling and almost campy practical effects, and really memorable telekinetic corpses, it’s really claustrophobic with constant ghouls shooting lasers out their eyes. unlike many slashers, it differentiates itself by adding a really fun supernatural twist, it’s relatively nostalgia 80s post friday the 13th horror. this film also has a decent lead performance, as meg tilly lets you sympathise with her ad the convincing vulnerable protagonist with a bunch of girls at her throat. the sound is also really ominous, and even a little over the top at some points. one big reason this isn’t any higher for me is it’s just a really slow movie, which wastes its time on simple teenage rivalry and only leaving the last act really for anything of substance to actually happen. the acting is a little uneven with its teenage cast giving amateurish portrayals, but yeah that adds to the campy factor. some of the subplots seem unnecessary and pointless. this film was extremely limited by its budget, some effects seem dated and it’s got no explicit violence, only atmosphere. this actually was fun, but takes way too long to pick up.
Jack
5.0★ · 09/22/25
“she’s gonna get so messed up, she won’t know what’s going on”
another deep cut horror, and this ones probably one of my favourite so far. a girl joins a sorority, and she most spend a night in this random building, they all pull a prank on her but what they don’t know is that the building is infested by whacky creatures. the final act is just starlight up great, it has unsettling and almost campy practical effects, and really memorable telekinetic corpses, it’s really claustrophobic with constant ghouls shooting lasers out their eyes. unlike many slashers, it differentiates itself by adding a really fun supernatural twist, it’s relatively nostalgia 80s post friday the 13th horror. this film also has a decent lead performance, as meg tilly lets you sympathise with her ad the convincing vulnerable protagonist with a bunch of girls at her throat. the sound is also really ominous, and even a little over the top at some points. one big reason this isn’t any higher for me is it’s just a really slow movie, which wastes its time on simple teenage rivalry and only leaving the last act really for anything of substance to actually happen. the acting is a little uneven with its teenage cast giving amateurish portrayals, but yeah that adds to the campy factor. some of the subplots seem unnecessary and pointless. this film was extremely limited by its budget, some effects seem dated and it’s got no explicit violence, only atmosphere. this actually was fun, but takes way too long to pick up.
another deep cut horror, and this ones probably one of my favourite so far. a girl joins a sorority, and she most spend a night in this random building, they all pull a prank on her but what they don’t know is that the building is infested by whacky creatures. the final act is just starlight up great, it has unsettling and almost campy practical effects, and really memorable telekinetic corpses, it’s really claustrophobic with constant ghouls shooting lasers out their eyes. unlike many slashers, it differentiates itself by adding a really fun supernatural twist, it’s relatively nostalgia 80s post friday the 13th horror. this film also has a decent lead performance, as meg tilly lets you sympathise with her ad the convincing vulnerable protagonist with a bunch of girls at her throat. the sound is also really ominous, and even a little over the top at some points. one big reason this isn’t any higher for me is it’s just a really slow movie, which wastes its time on simple teenage rivalry and only leaving the last act really for anything of substance to actually happen. the acting is a little uneven with its teenage cast giving amateurish portrayals, but yeah that adds to the campy factor. some of the subplots seem unnecessary and pointless. this film was extremely limited by its budget, some effects seem dated and it’s got no explicit violence, only atmosphere. this actually was fun, but takes way too long to pick up.
“she’s gonna get so messed up, she won’t know what’s going on”
another deep cut horror, and this ones probably one of my favourite so far. a girl joins a sorority, and she most spend a night in this random building, they all pull a prank on her but what they don’t know is that the building is infested by whacky creatures. the final act is just starlight up great, it has unsettling and almost campy practical effects, and really memorable telekinetic corpses, it’s really claustrophobic with constant ghouls shooting lasers out their eyes. unlike many slashers, it differentiates itself by adding a really fun supernatural twist, it’s relatively nostalgia 80s post friday the 13th horror. this film also has a decent lead performance, as meg tilly lets you sympathise with her ad the convincing vulnerable protagonist with a bunch of girls at her throat. the sound is also really ominous, and even a little over the top at some points. one big reason this isn’t any higher for me is it’s just a really slow movie, which wastes its time on simple teenage rivalry and only leaving the last act really for anything of substance to actually happen. the acting is a little uneven with its teenage cast giving amateurish portrayals, but yeah that adds to the campy factor. some of the subplots seem unnecessary and pointless. this film was extremely limited by its budget, some effects seem dated and it’s got no explicit violence, only atmosphere. this actually was fun, but takes way too long to pick up.
another deep cut horror, and this ones probably one of my favourite so far. a girl joins a sorority, and she most spend a night in this random building, they all pull a prank on her but what they don’t know is that the building is infested by whacky creatures. the final act is just starlight up great, it has unsettling and almost campy practical effects, and really memorable telekinetic corpses, it’s really claustrophobic with constant ghouls shooting lasers out their eyes. unlike many slashers, it differentiates itself by adding a really fun supernatural twist, it’s relatively nostalgia 80s post friday the 13th horror. this film also has a decent lead performance, as meg tilly lets you sympathise with her ad the convincing vulnerable protagonist with a bunch of girls at her throat. the sound is also really ominous, and even a little over the top at some points. one big reason this isn’t any higher for me is it’s just a really slow movie, which wastes its time on simple teenage rivalry and only leaving the last act really for anything of substance to actually happen. the acting is a little uneven with its teenage cast giving amateurish portrayals, but yeah that adds to the campy factor. some of the subplots seem unnecessary and pointless. this film was extremely limited by its budget, some effects seem dated and it’s got no explicit violence, only atmosphere. this actually was fun, but takes way too long to pick up.
Somto Umelo
7.0★ · 08/09/25
Slowest first act everrrr!
Slowest first act everrrr!
Joe Vinci
6.0★ · 05/26/25
one long boring night
until the last 20 minutes which is full of awesome effects. new fear unlocked of being suffocated by rotting corpses.
and love the concept of telekinesis from beyond the grave
until the last 20 minutes which is full of awesome effects. new fear unlocked of being suffocated by rotting corpses.
and love the concept of telekinesis from beyond the grave
one long boring night
until the last 20 minutes which is full of awesome effects. new fear unlocked of being suffocated by rotting corpses.
and love the concept of telekinesis from beyond the grave
until the last 20 minutes which is full of awesome effects. new fear unlocked of being suffocated by rotting corpses.
and love the concept of telekinesis from beyond the grave