| 词条 | The Midnight Hour |
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| show_name = The Midnight Hour | image = The Midnight Hour DVD.jpg | image_size = 230px | image_alt = | caption = Original advertisement | genre = Comedy horror[1] | creator = | based_on = | writer = Bill Bleich | screenplay = | story = | director = Jack Bender | starring = {{plainlist|Shari Belafonte-Harper
}} | narrated = | theme_music_composer = Brad Fiedel | country = United States | language = English | num_episodes = | executive_producer = Sharon L. Sawyer | producer = Ervin Zavada Jill Mullikin-Bates | location = Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California | editor = David A. Simmons | cinematography = Rexford L. Metz | runtime = 94 minutes | company = {{plainlist|ABC Circle Films[1]
}} | distributor = ABC | budget = | network = ABC | picture_format = Color | audio_format = Stereo | first_aired = {{Film date|1985|11|01|television premiere|ref1={{sfn|Sherman|2009|p=123}}}} | last_aired = | preceded_by = | followed_by = | website = }} The Midnight Hour is a 1985 American made-for-television comedy horror film directed by Jack Bender and starring Shari Belafonte-Harper, LeVar Burton, Peter DeLuise, and Dedee Pfeiffer. Its plot focuses on a small New England town that becomes overrun with zombies, witches, vampires, and all the other demons of hell after a group of teenagers unlocks a centuries-old curse on Halloween. The film aired on ABC on Friday, November 1, 1985, at 9:00-11:00 pm EST. In addition to an original musical number, "Get Dead", the film's soundtrack features songs by Wilson Pickett, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs, Three Dog Night, and The Smiths.[2] The film marks Macaulay Culkin's first screen role as an uncredited trick-or-treater. PlotIt is Halloween in the small town of Pitchford Cove located somewhere in New England, and five high school friends, Phil (Lee Montgomery), Mary (Pfeiffer), Mitch (DeLuise), Vinnie (Burton), and Melissa (Belafonte-Harper), plan on making it a night they will never forget. They steal outfits from the town's historic museum and come upon other old artifacts, including an old trunk encasing a paper scroll which contains an ancient curse. When Melissa, latent sorceress, recites the curse at the local cemetery, things take a turn for the worse. The town's dead, led by Melissa's great-great-great-great-grandmother Lucinda Cavender (Jonelle Allen), a witch who was put to death 300 years earlier, rise up from their graves and roam the town. As Melissa, Vinnie, Mitch, and Mary enjoy themselves at their annual Halloween costume party, Phil encounters a mysterious girl, named Sandra "Sandy" Matthews (Jonna Lee), dressed in a vintage 1950's cheerleader outfit, who warns him that the whole town is in danger. Meanwhile, Lucinda and the various undead crash the costume party. At first, nobody pays much attention to them since everyone is in costume. However, Lucinda begins turning the party guests into vampires, starting with her great-great-great-great-granddaughter Melissa. When Sandy discovers that Phil and his friends recited the ancient spell in the cemetery, they realize that the whole town is being overrun by the living dead and decide to team up to break the curse. The only way to do so is to find the Grenville Spirit Ring inside the grave of a witch-hunter Nathaniel Grenville - who, coincidentally, was Phil's great-great-great-great-grandfather and slave owner of Lucinda Cavender, her arch-nemesis - and use it to undo the curse. Phil and "good ghost" Sandy must restore the town to normal by midnight before it is too late and the curse becomes permanent. Cast
ReleaseAiring historyThe Midnight Hour had its world premiere on ABC on Friday, November 1, 1985, at 9:00-11:00 pm EST.[4] The film later aired on occasion during the Halloween season, with an 8 pm airing on the Lifetime network on Wednesday, October 31, 1990.[6] Lifetime continued to air the film on numerous occasions during afternoon time slots, including showings on December 27, 1990,[5] June 19, 1992,[6] and October 31, 1992.[7]Home mediaVidmark released The Midnight Hour on VHS in May 1989.[8] Anchor Bay Entertainment released it on Region 1 DVD on September 19, 2000.[9][10] The film was previously released on VHS by Anchor Bay Entertainment on July 20, 1999. Both releases of the film are out of print and are extremely rare among collectors.[11][12]ReceptionContemporaneousRick Sherwood of the San Bernardino Sun deemed the film a "less-than-satisfying teenage monster movie," adding: "The two-hour made-for-TV movie is billed as a humorous horror romp, but The Midnight Hour is really a campy monster bash in which revived corpses break into song and dance. Expect neither tricks nor treats, just lots of rock music, fake-looking special effects, and slow-moving scenes."[13] A review published in The Des Moines Register noted: "The plot is contrived and simple, but the special effects, makeup, and costumes (done by the same person who staged Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video) may be worth the watch,"[14] while a review in The Tennesseean described the film as "a sophomoric concoction about a bunch of teenagers who conjure up a gang of goblins."[15] Leonard Maltin wrote in his 1987 film guide that The Midnight Hour was "below average...[a] bland concoction of teen comedies, music videos, horror spoofs, and monster mashes."{{sfn|Maltin|1987|p=631}} ContemporaryOf retrospective assessments on the film, Gary Militzer of DVD Verdict called it "a mediocre made-for-TV horror/comedy" unworthy of a DVD release,[10] while the 2004 DVD and Video Guide deemed it an "enjoyable cross between Night of the Living Dead and An American Werewolf in London, helped along by humor and a lively cast."{{sfn|Martin|Porter|2003|p=719}} AllMovie's Robert Firsching wrote: "Cultists and completists may find it worth a look for camp value alone, but most will want to give it a wide berth."[16] In Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide (2012), Glenn Kay called the film "lavishly produced, but not particularly thrilling," adding that it "has a sickening cuteness to it."{{sfn|Kay|2012|p=174}} Vampire fiction scholar John L. Flynn referred to the film as "a hodgepodge of horror film cliches."{{sfn|Flynn|1992|p=229}} John Stanley wrote in Creature Features (2000) that the film was a "violent TV-movie vacillating between graveyard humor and shock thrills."{{sfn|Stanley|2000|p=267}} Academic Peter Dendle noted in The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia: "Even zombie movie completists will have a hard time stomaching this lame made-for-TV drivel," also comparing elements of the film's dance sequence to that of the Jackson "Thriller" video, and likening other elements of the film to those of Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (1972) and Grease (1978).{{sfn|Dendle|2001|p=110}} Similarly in Cyborgs, Santa Claus and Satan: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films Made for Television (2009), media scholar Fraser S. Sherman wrote: "This pointless film spends far too much time with teens partying and dancing, and pays much more attention to visuals than to plot."{{sfn|Sherman|2009|pages=123–24}} SoundtrackThe film features these songs, as adapted from the film credits: {{Col-start}}{{Col-2}}
References1. ^{{cite web|work=British Film Institute|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b74431593|title=The Midnight Hour (1985)|accessdate=December 23, 2017}} 2. ^{{cite AV media | people = | year =2000 | title =The Midnight Hour | asin= 6305971714 | format =DVD | orig-year=1985 | publisher =Anchor Bay Entertainment}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.dreadcentral.com/b-sides/27966/b-sides-a-thriller-rip-off-that-ll-make-you-want-to-get-dead/|title=B-Sides: A Thriller Rip-Off That’ll Make You Want to Get Dead|last=Foy|first=Scott|work=Dread Central|date=October 22, 2011|accessdate=February 4, 2015}} 4. ^{{cite news|newspaper=Democrat and Chronicle|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/137140312/|title=Today's Television|p=14|via=Newspapers.com|location=Rochester, New York}} 5. ^{{cite newspaper|title=Movies|p=145|work=Reno Gazette Journal|location=Reno, Nevada|via=Newspapers.com|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/151459848/|date=December 23, 1990}} 6. ^{{cite newspaper|title=Movies|p=155|work=Reno Gazette Journal|location=Reno, Nevada|via=Newspapers.com|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/152925036/|date=June 14, 1992}} 7. ^{{cite news|work=The Palm Beach Post|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/133756025/|via=Newspapers.com|p=105|title=Prime Time and Late Night|date=October 31, 1992}} 8. ^{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1345&dat=19890512&id=k1hYAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6_kDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5711,2402915|title=Vampires, Canseco Top Weeks' Releases|work=Spokane-Review|date=May 12, 1985|location=Spokane, Washington|page=18}} 9. ^[https://www.amazon.com/Midnight-Hour-Jonelle-Allen/dp/6305971714 Amazon.com, The Midnight Hour DVD release info] 10. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/midnighthour.php|work=DVD Verdict|title=The Midnight Hour|date=October 9, 2000|accessdate=August 22, 2014|author=Militzer, Gary}} 11. ^{{cite web|work=The Scope|title=Blogoween: The Midnight Hour (1985)|url=http://thescope.ca/blogoween/blogoween-the-midnight-hour-1985|date=October 20, 2010|accessdate=August 22, 2014}} 12. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.coffeeaddictedwriter.com/2012/10/13-days-of-halloween-retrospective.html|work=Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer|title=13 Days of Halloween: Retrospective: The Midnight Hour|date=October 31, 2012|accessdate=August 23, 2014|author=B., Billy}} 13. ^1 {{cite news|work=San Bernardino Sun|date=November 1, 1985|p=45|title=Don't expect tricks|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SBS19851101.1.45|via=California Digital Newspaper Collection|author=Sherwood, Rick}} {{free access}} 14. ^{{cite news|work=The Des Moines Register|title=MOVIE: 'The Midnight Hour'|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/129434243/|via=Newspapers.com|p=18|date=November 1, 1985}} 15. ^1 {{cite news|newspaper=The Tennesseean|title=Today's highlights|p=30|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/112836735/|via=Newspapers.com|date=October 31, 1990}} 16. ^{{cite web|work=AllMovie|title=The Midnight Hour|author=Firsching, Robert|accessdate=29 March 2018|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/v32565}} Works cited
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