The Midnight Hour (1985)

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   sahkoo

   Brilliant Halloween flick. 12 years 6 months ago
2. 

   Siskoid

   I can see why, TV movie or not, The Midnight Hour is a fondly remembered Halloween movie. It's silly nonsense a lot of the time - even before the sudden musical number - but it's fun nonsense, and I think more than a little what Buffy the Vampire Slayer would have felt like had it been made in the '80s. A bunch of adults playing high schoolers - among them Shari Belafonte and LeVar Burton! - open a Hellmouth on a goof, and release a variety of undead types on their town on Halloween night. Depending on any given kid's experience, what ensues may be a ghost story paying tribute to Grease, a camp vampire movie, or a rampaging monster flick, and you're really not supposed to take any of it very seriously. Where I think it goes wrong is the epilogue, which abandons all plot lines but one, and fails to answer some important question and rob us of the happy ending the tone as up until then promised - or even a clear, bleak ending that would have acted as contrast or Twilight Zone point d'orgue. 3 years 5 months ago
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   jlfitz

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMMCG--ex_8 8 years 11 months ago

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