The Midnight Hour

The Midnight Hour (1985) is a very hard movie to find but i found it to be enjoyable and good fun so i'd recommend it to horror/ 80's movie fans!!! On Halloween night at Pitchfork Cove, a nice little town, a group of teenagers go down to the graveyard and unwittingly unleash an ancient curse, this curse is about to cause panic and devastation as zombies, werewolf's and other monsters get unleashed!!! Amidst all of the chaos, leader of the gang "Phil" meets a mysterious blonde girl called Sandy, she and Phil become close friends and form a bond and work together to raise the curse before midnight and rid the town of the evil. Can the couple save their town?? Who is Sandy?? Phil is in for a shock as he finds out her past and who she really is!!!! Like i said before this T.V movie is hard to find but well worth it, with good make up effects, a nice story, good pacing, good fun characters and an excellent soundtrack too, 7/10 for The Midnight Hour.

I saw this movie ONLY ONCE when I was about 7 or 8 and it's still one of my favorite movies. I just remember how much it was like something i would have thought up back then (i was really into vampires and stuff) mixed with someone else's imagination. It is a really cute movie and I'm just now buying it..lol.

Sometimes on this website I really disagree with what the rating is for a movie on here. I understand though some movies that many other people like I don't or vice versa. But, this is one of those movies.

I suppose I should get to the story. It all takes place in the town of Pitchford Cove and near the beginning Phil Grenville (Lee Montgomery) shares with the audience and his classmates a bad history about the town that also includes his friend and classmate Melissa Cavender (Shari Belafonte). So the gang that also includes Melissa's man Vinnie (LeVar Burton), Mitch (Peter DeLuise) and Mary (Dedee Pfeiffer) go off to the local witchcraft museum in search of costumes for a Halloween party at Belafonte's place. Oh and if some of those last names seem familiar don't worry they are. They are either children or siblings of big stars like Harry Belafonte, Dom DeLuise and Michelle Pfeiffer. After they swipe some costumes they are then off to the graveyard where they accidentally awaken the dead and the terrible curse.

I found the characters in this movie stereotypical and felt I had seen these characters a hundred times before. For a movie with a rating so high I really did not find anything original or for that matter groundbreaking about this movie. I felt it was a tired old script, but perhaps I may be in the minority on that opinion.

The movie though does have some great classic songs though. And when I say classic I do not mean the 80s. I mean the 60s. The songs didn't really seem to 100% fit the characters or even some of the situations. The makeup effects though are really top notch and certainly a plus.

Also starring Kevin McCarthy as Judge Crandall or Mitch's dad. I really enjoyed McCarthy in this role, but it is a stereotypical 80s role for McCarthy. I just love seeing him angry and raging. Cindy Morgan also stars as teacher Vicky Jensen (who in fact is the same age as Shari Belafonte), Dick Van Patten as Phil's dad and Kurtwood Smith as Captain Warren Jensen.

Remember when TV was fun? This movie stuck with me too for all these years and I've always wondered why they didn't play it again on Halloween.

If your a big fan of Halloween like I am, this movie will definitely put you in the mood for the holiday.

It has it all. The classic horror, the classic love story.

Come on Disney channel, give it a play.

A DVD release would be Awesome.

A box set with other classic Halloween hard to find gems such as witches night out (A very hard to find cartoon) would be really awesome.

Now this is the kind of horror movie that I like, a movie thats good for both children and adults. This movie is a good choice for a Halloween get together. It's got a good cast, except for Harper which for some reason I just did not like in the movie, maybe it was that crazy dancing act during the party which reminded me of Micheal Jacksons "Thriller" which I understand was pretty popular during that time but unappropriate for this video. The story line of the 50's girl falling in love with the leading hero in the movie was touching and sweet and I loved the sad ending. I haven't seen this one in almost 18 years and it was nice to have seen it again. Rent this one for that special Halloween occasion and I'm sure you'll like it.