One Dark Night, which got a wide release 40 years ago, is a hidden gem that'll have fans of '80s horror pumping their fists in the air. Here's awalrusdarkly on a movie that deserves rediscovery:
We pass these discoveries along to each other with the gleeful energy of a paleontologists who just uncovered a new dinosaur, shouting our finds from the rooftops not because we want to prove some kind of genre superiority, but because we want to share what we’ve unearthed, and see if someone else in another corner of the planet just happened to dig up the same fossil. There’s great joy to it, because if you’re willing to go digging, you find buried treasure.
If you’re a seasoned veteran of horror movies, you can probably guess where this is going already, and if I’m honest, the way McLoughlin lays it all out at first is a little clumsy. Julie’s story is juggled with that of the psychic’s estranged daughter , who cuts into chunks of plot to piece together her father’s final days, and what exactly he was doing that caused his bizarre death.
Thankfully, whenever the teens are onscreen, even through clunky dialogue, the movie works, particularly where Tilly is concerned. Once the film gets going, huge chunks ofare devoted to her explorations alone in a dark mausoleum, which means she has to carry our interest even before anything supernatural is happening, and she pulls it off. It’s a performance reminiscent of Olivia Hussey’s work in: Equal parts vulnerable and tough, riveting even amid the slowest of slow-burn scenes.
But like I said, if you’re a horror fan, you know where all of this is going almost from the beginning. You can see the threads of the two stories starting to converge, and the question becomes notit will happen. It’s here that McLoughlin and special makeup effects wizard Tom Burman take over, and turn the final 20 minutes of the film into a cornucopia of rot.
If you’re a horror fan obsessed with the scary stories of the 1980s, and you’ve made it through all the obvious classics at this point, addto your watchlist. Once you’ve seen it, you’ll want to tell all of your horror friends about it, because the energy it unleashes is just that infectious and fun. In a decade packed with great horror, it’s one of the films most deserving of rediscovery.for more than a decade.
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