One Dark Night Movie Review

One Dark Night is a 1983 horror movie directed by Tom McLoughlin and starring Meg Tilly, Adam West and E.G. Daily.

A few dead girls are found in an apartment of a man called Raymar who is an occultist. He was with the girls and he died of a heart attack. The girls were murdered. Raymar was a psychic. His daughter is called Olivia McKenna(Melissa Newman). She has a vision of corpses coming back to life. Her husband is Allan(West). A man called Samuel Dockstader calls to see them. He is a magazine writer and he tells them about Raymar. He tells them that he could use energy to drain the life out of people. He used the girls to take their energy. He inadvertently killed himself while he was doing it. He gives Olivia a tape of her father. Cut to a group of girls. They are in a sorotity and they have an initiation planned for a girl called Julie(Tilly).Leslie(Daily), Kitty and Carol are the girls and they talk to a guy called Steve about it. He is Julie's boyfriend and he is not happy about them planning anything for her. He used to date Carol and she wants revenge on him by taking it out on Julie.

Steve tries to talk to Carol about it but she tries to get him back. He pushes her off and she is mad. She calls Julie to tell her that the initiation is tonight. The girls collect her. They drive her to a mausoleum. They tell her that she has to stay there for one night. They lock her inside. She looks around. Raymar's corpse is in there and his crypt is opening. Steve calls to see Julie but finds out she has gone. Meanwhile, Olivia is listening to her father on the tape. He has very strong energy. The sisters are at the mausoleum. They are going to frighten Julie. They gave her a drug and she is groggy. They scare her and chase her. Steve finds out where she is and he goes to the mausoleum. Olivia discovers that she might have powers too. Things start moving inside the mausoleum. Reymar is making a return from the dead. The place starts shaking. Carol and her pals decide to leave.

Steve arrives, looking for Julie. Carol and Kitty get trapped. Coffins start to open. The dead are back.
They chase the girls. Olivia decides that she wants to go to the mausoleum. Rayman comes back. He calls on the dead. They converge on Kitty and Carol. Julie wanders around and meets Steve. The dead follow. They get surrounded. Oliovia shows up. Raymar gets Julie and Steve can't stop him. Olivia arrives and stops him. She grabs her mirror and he destroys himself with his eneergy. The dead drop. His power has gone. He is dead(again). Julie and Steve are okay.

This film was quite entertaining. It got a bit slow in the middle, but it picked up near the end. The cast were good and it was good 80's fun. The zombies were so so but I can let that go. I hadn't heard of this film before when I came upon it and it was certainly worth a watch. The setting of the mausoleum was interesting. It was fun seeing Adam West in this. Meg Tilly is young here, but she plays her part well. All in all, this is enjoyable so give it a chance if you like 80's horror. I will give it a 5/10.