Midnight

Midnight (1982)

A Startling & Shocking Adventure - As Three College Students Take a Strange Detour to the Land of the LIVING DEAD!

While hitchhiking to escape an abusive home life, a teenage girl is picked up by a couple on a camping trip. The trip turns deadly when a group of Satanists, hellbent on resurrecting their dead mother, attack the campers.

Date of release
1982-12-31
TMDB
5.4 / 10 (24)
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Horror
Director
John A. Russo
Collection
Midnight Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

Midnight is a 1982 American exploitation horror film directed by John Russo and starring Melanie Verlin, Lawrence Tierney, and John Amplas. Its plot follows a female hitchhiker en route to San Francisco who finds herself at the mercy of a backwoods Satanic cult in Pennsylvania who sacrifice young women in an attempt to resurrect their dead mother. It is based on Russo's 1980 novel of the same name.

Production

Midnight was filmed on location outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1980 on a budget of $70,000 Tom Savini supplied some of the film's special effects/props such as the real life skeleton and the black-faced mother mummy makeup. When Savini left to work on Knightriders (1981), Russo stepped in and finished the remaining special effects shots.

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