 Hello and welcome to another episode of Frightfully Forgotten Horror Movies. Before we get started, what are we drinking? Today we are drinking V for Vienna. Nice. It's a Vienna Lager. Today we're going to bring to you One Dark Night. It is directed by Tom McLulin and he also directed Friday the 13th, Jason Lives. Yeah. The movie stars Meg Tilley. She was in The Big Chill and Psycho 2. Boom! Elizabeth Daley is in this and she's in The Devil's Rejects and she's in Pee Wee's Big Adventure. And of course Adam West is in this too. Pure West. The movie starts off with an ambulance pulling up at this crime scene. There's a big crowd of people outside watching. It shows this kind of weird Andy Warhol looking guy hanging out. This is the apartment of this famous Russian occultist by the name of Karl Reymar and he's found dead in his apartment along with six girls kind of shoved in this closet who are also dead. And it's a bizarre crime scene because there's all this stuff like shoved in the walls like by brute force like cutlery and they go to go move the body and his hand kind of comes out and all this lightning comes out of his hand and breaks the ceiling. Then we're taking to the funeral for this Karl Reymar and his estranged daughter is there. Her husband played by Adam West. Karl's funeral is taking place in this mausoleum. Mausoleum? I thought it was mausoleum. Quite sure it's pronounced mausoleum. On their way back from the funeral as they're going into their house that weird Andy Warhol guy shows up, a colleague of Reymar and he tells the two that Reymar is like a psychic vampire who feeds off this bioenergy off of other people and kidnap girls and if they're scared he can get more energy from them and makes it stronger. The Andy Warhol guy gives her this tape that she's supposed to listen to later in private. They're a little group, the sisters they're called. There's three of them but one of them is kind of jealous of this Julie because she likes this guy that Julie's going out with. She's got this scheme to kind of haze this Julie. The idea is that they're going to make Julie spend the night in a mausoleum. I thought you said it was mausoleum. The other girls are going to break in and scare her even more and they've got like masks and you know like... It's a pretty good legit looking mask. Yeah it's really good, yeah. Bear in mind this is the same mausoleum that Reymar is buried in. So they drop her off. Everything is supposedly cleared and we know this by the caretaker guy. Anybody in here? Andy also gives the other girls in the car a shit too and tells them to get going. I don't understand the guy. She's kind of settling down and trying to get to sleep. The girls are starting to come back. The estranged daughter starts listening to that tape and starts learning about all of Reymar's experiments. And if he gets enough energy he can come back from the dead. Reymar's coffin or little slot that he's put in is starting to crack and is starting to glow and they end up just scaring the shit out of her by putting on one of those masks. One of them is sort of starts walking towards her like a dead person, like a phantom or something wearing that sheet. And it looks scary. It is pretty scary looking. So the more he starts to feed off of Julie's fear, the more he actually starts to manifest that into physical things. And he actually goes as far as being able to open one of the little crypt things and you see a coffin come out and it opens up and there's a dead person in there. And he starts sort of walking towards them. And now the other girls are shit scared and so he starts feeding off that even more. And then more bodies start coming out. And that's where we're going to end it. So if you want to see what Reymar does, how they're going to deal with all of this and what the daughter is going to do, stay tuned and keep watching. A really cool movie. Simple plot as far as like spend the night in a mausoleum. But then you put all this kind of psychic vampire stuff in there and it kind of changes it all, right? Yeah. It gives it a sort of a sci-fi feel. Yeah. A different edge. And it also adds the complexity to it too, right? The effects of the dead bodies and the rest of the movie throughout are just wicked. To me, these look like real dead bodies. Yeah. Yeah. It looks very like Tom Savini quality almost. Not all the dead bodies look the same. Different characters almost. And all the lighting. It reminds me a lot of the keep with all the lighting coming out of the cracks in the marble and starting to come back to life and all that energy and everything. Yeah, it's cool. The setting too. Yeah. Like what a great setting for a horror movie. A graveyard is kind of scary. The mausoleum is scarier because you're trapped and the bodies are stacked vertical. They're not buried. Yeah. And it's all helped along by the wicked 80s music too, right? The music is very hypnotic because the pacing is so slow for this movie. The music really helps you stay kind of entranced in the movie as the story is kind of slowly unfolding. There's nothing really that happens until like the last what, 15, 20 minutes of the movie. That's when it really kicks up, yeah. But they manage to keep you interested enough with all the little things that the girls are doing, right? Yeah. But they still manage to keep it a horror movie. Spending the night where they are, girls are scaring. The other girl? Yeah, exactly. Using, you know, kind of horror methods, right? The whole character of this Karl Reymar, you never actually see him. The Andy Warhol guy describing him and the daughter talking about him and then you hear about him kind of on the radio. You get to know him really good without ever laying eyes on the guy. Yeah. Like even when he's dead in the beginning, there's already a sheet over him so you have no clue what he looks like. You still know almost. You know him. Yeah. Which is really cool. It comes at a time too. All this kind of psychic phenomenon shit is popular. It's all in the media and on the talk shows. Yeah, there's, you know, famous guys like Yuri Geller who's doing all that psychic shit. James Hydrick. Yeah. With his kimonos. I kept expecting James Randi to show up in the movie and just debunk this restart guy. Yeah. You see, now that can't be done. Yeah. Totally check out One Dark Night. It's stylistically, it looks really good. Yeah. It's got a lot of the keep, phantasm. Phantasm for sure. Yeah. Not only because where it takes place, but also like the music is kind of very phantasm-ish. And it has Adam West in it, so how can you go wrong? Exactly. Until next time, keep drinking and don't spend a night in a mausoleum. We know it's pronounced mausoleum.