Mischief Night

Mischief Night (2013)

The lucky ones die first

Young Emily Walton, who has suffered from psychosomatic blindness ever since the car accident that took her mother's life, must summon every instinct at her disposal to protect herself and her loved ones from an intruder.

Date of release
2013-10-30
TMDB
5.1 / 10 (105)
Runtime
1h 26m
Genres
Horror, Drama, Thriller
Director
Richard Schenkman

Casting

Interesting facts

Mischief Night is a 2013 American horror film written and directed by Richard Schenkman. It focuses on a young girl with psychosomatic blindness being terrorized by a hooded killer.

Production

Mischief Night was written and directed by Richard Schenkman, from a story idea by Eric Wilkinson and Jesse Baget.

Development for the film began in 2007 after the release of The Man From Earth, which Schenkman produced. Baget and Wilkinson had both grown up in New Jersey where Mischief Night was "celebrated" by the two filmmakers, according to Schenkmen " with real vigour". Lifelong fans of the horror genre, Baget and Wilkinson developed a scenario for a horror film centered around the holiday, which they subsequently pitched to Image Entertainment.

For the role of the film's main protagonist Emily Walton, extensive auditions were done to find the right actress for the role, "it had to be somebody young, somebody whom the audience would believe was only 17. She also had to be able to be convincingly blind, somebody who could find the humor in the role, somebody funny & charming because it certainly wasn't all screaming and crying" as Schankman later stated in an interview.

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