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Happy Hell Night

Happy Hell Night

  • Status: Released
  • 13-04-1992
  • Runtime: 87 min
  • Score: 4.75
  • Vote count: 32

25 years ago at Winfield College, psycho-priest Zachary Malius murdered seven frat boys and was put away in the local asylum. Now, however, the same fraternity stages a prank from which Malius is inadvertently set free and returns to the house to repeat his crime...

Nick Gregory

Eric

Laura Carney

Liz

Sam Rockwell

Young Henry Collins

Darren McGavin

Henry Collins

Charles Cragin

Malius

Frank John Hughes

Sonny

Ted Clark

Ned Bara

Jorja Fox

Kappa Sig Girl (uncredited)

Larry Robinson

Orderly

Lisa Nichols

Nurse

Irfan Mensur

Young Father Cane

Elvis Restaino

Jake

Melissa Blanchard

Campus Girl

Jeffrey Miller

Ralph

Dennis Gallant

Man in Bar

Kat Delay

Susan

Scott Bell

Pete

John Askwith

Bartender

Winston May

Sheriff

Tatjana Pujin

Kimberly

Gala Videnović

Marjorie

William Morris

Frat Boy

Lisa Rankine

Nurse

Chuck Vergara

Patient

Kate Healey

Cop

Janez Vrhovec

Father Cane

Jesse Grey Walken

Sal (uncredited)

Wuchak

**_Decent cast, good locations and fine f/x, but lousy storytelling_** Students of an upstate New York college celebrate their annual Hell Night with a few of them inadvertently unleashing a diabolical inmate of a nearby asylum, who happens to have a history with the school. Darren McGavin plays the father of two siblings who attend the college (Franke John Hughes & Nick Gregory) with Sam Rockwell playing the younger version of the dad in flashbacks. "Happy Hell Night" (1992) has everything for a quality slasher, but fumbles the ball with grossly amateur directing and editing. There are bits of certain key scenes that are so clumsily executed the director or editor should’ve been fired. It doesn’t help that the supernatural element is awkwardly worked into the script with the corresponding gobbledygook. On a positive note, the antagonist is effective enough and the female cast is quite good, highlighted by Laura Carney (Liz), Tatjana Pujin (Kimberly), Gala Videnovic (Marjorie), Jorja Fox (Kappa Sig Girl) and Kate Delay (Susan). Speaking as a fan of the genre, it’s strange how this flick failed so badly despite its resources and the fact that it had a dozen years of slashers to use as a blueprint. The film runs 1 hour, 27 minutes, and was shot in Yugoslavia and Humber College, Toronto (I’m assuming the latter applies to exterior shots, but I’m not sure). GRADE: D+/C-