#Really good?? Idk that's somehow even more annoying. There's so much visual flair and inventiveness in that finale and so much incredible
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One Dark Night (1982)
"There is a phenomenon that's called psychic vampirism. Have you ever known anyone who's left you feeling physically drained of energy?"
#one dark night#american cinema#horror film#films i done watched#tom mcloughlin#meg tilly#Melissa Newman#robin evans#Leslie Speights#Donald Hotton#elizabeth daily#David Mason Daniels#adam west#Leo Gorcey Jr.#Rhio H. Blair#kevin peter hall#A hot mess of a film. Over an hour of slog and trudge with no real action and constant awkward exposition in the form of a woman sat in her#Home listening to a tape recording. The constant cuts back to this woman and her tape recording become maddening#I was all ready to write this one off as an utter loss. A badly made horribly filmed waste of time. And then the last 20 minutes are really#Really good?? Idk that's somehow even more annoying. There's so much visual flair and inventiveness in that finale and so much incredible#Practical effects stuff and it's really clear that there is a lot of talent behind the camera. So where was it for the preceding hour??#According to the Web this film went through a lot of behind the scenes issues and had a lot of interference from the studio but I can't#Believe the director is free of blame. The scenes with Adam West and Melissa Newman are dreck and unless they were totally filmed without#His involvement then he has to carry some of the blame. The girls are great tho! They feel like real teens! And that ending is so good!#And agrhhrh why is this such a goddamn mess. Right down to that poster I mean ffs what is that
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