Happy Hell Night

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Movie
German title Happy Hell Night
Original title Happy Hell Night
Country of production Yugoslavia , Canada
original language English
Publishing year 1992
length 84 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Brian Owens
script Brian Owens
Ron Peterson
Michael Fitzpatrick
production Leslie Sunshine
Pavlina Proevska
music Nenad Bach
camera Sol Negrin
Curtis Peterson
cut David Mitchell
occupation

Happy Hell Night (Original: Happy Hell Night ) is a 1992 Yugoslav - Canadian horror film directed by Brian Owens .

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Young Henry Collins makes a pact with a strange old man that fulfills all his wishes in the distant future. In return, he has to open the coffin of the former priest Zachary Malius in the Winfield cemetery mausoleum and summon the corpse in a satanic ritual. As a result, the corpse awakens to an immortal, pale, emaciated creature with black eyes who dismembered seven students on Halloween 1966. Immediately after the crime, the silent murderer is found by Pastor Cane; the incident was hushed up and Malius was sent to the local mental hospital. There he remained in a solitary cell for almost a quarter of a century, completely motionless and without food, without ever being tried.

25 years later, on Halloween 1991, the student and video voyeur Ned Bara found out about the mysterious story through an old newspaper article and began investigating the past series of ritual murders. He receives help from a group of friendly students. Two of them, Sonny and Ralph, break into the sanatorium at night to photograph an alleged eyewitness who soon turns out to be a satanic murderer. Due to the carelessness of the two, however, the apathetic , devil-possessed beast frees itself , kills Ralph and a nurse on duty before he disappears without a trace. Meanwhile, Sonny manages to escape unharmed.

Out of grief for her lover Sonny, who does not show up for the Halloween party, Liz, who was also in a relationship with Sonny's brother Eric, seeks Pastor Cane for advice. The clergyman warns the young woman about the willless “tool of the devil” and asks her to cancel a nearby Halloween party in a fraternity house because the participants are in danger. Meanwhile, the serial killer in front of the building kills a woman with an ice ax, followed by a whole series of gruesome and brutal murders of the party guests. The student villa is voyeuristically monitored with permanently installed video cameras by Ned Bara, who not only records pictures of loving couples but also several murders.

When Liz finally reaches the spacious building, however, she is too late. Mutilated corpses pile up in the gloomy house. Together with their ex-boyfriend Eric and his brother Sonny, who has since arrived, they take up the fight against Malius. They receive support from their father Henry Collins, who informs them in between with the necessary information about the immortal creature and plans another ritual to stop the murderous figure. According to the old gentleman shortly before his death, this ritual should take place in the mausoleum and meet certain conditions. After the murder of the old man, Liz conjures up a new ritual together with Eric and Sonny, which, however, is constantly interrupted by Malius. The serial killer manages to seriously injure Eric and to involve Sonny in a duel, while Liz completes the ritual at the same time. In a subsequent arc, Malius apparently dies, while Sonny disappears without a trace. At the end of the film, the unsuspecting Liz accompanies the injured Eric in an ambulance whose driver is Malius. The immortal figure shows itself to both of them before the start of the journey, when suddenly the film ends.

Reviews

“Conventional horror thriller off the shelf. Purpose in itself in depicting violence, bloody and brutal, and on top of that with a greasy voyeuristic attitude. "

- Lexicon of international film

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Happy Hell Night. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used