FrightMeter A late entry into the mid-80's/early 90's slasher explosion, "Happy Hell Night" remains obsolete for good reason: it's not very good.With an unusually high IMDb rating for a film like this, I was expecting much more. The film basically centers around a college campus celebrating Hell Night. In the meantime, a crazed, escaped murderous priest escapes from a mental hospital and goes on a murderous rampage. Throw in some supernatural elements, and you have quite a mess of a film.I give the film credit for having a damn creepy-looking killer: picture a bald albino with black eyes--not a pretty image. However, the filmmakers ruin the potential creepiness of the character by making him speak cheesy lines before killing a victim. As a result, the killer becomes a comical gimmick, rather than the potential frightening horror villain that he could have been. The pacing of the film is quite slow, as well, and there are long periods of time when nothing of any importance seems to happen. The acting verges on being atrocious from all involved, particular the female and male leads. To top it off, the climax is laughingly ridiculous as the survivors try to lure the killer into a circle to kill him.Overall, this film is a bore and I would only recommend seeing it if you are a DIE HARD slasher fan. Even then, this film offers nothing new or exciting. My suggestions-rewatch an 80's slasher classic like "The Burning," "My Bloody Valentine," or "Stage Fright." 3 out of 10

hawk-handsaw Amateurish direction, bad acting and a weak script are the best parts of this awful movie. Plot holes, inadequate character motivations, choppy editing and an overall lack of film-making skills. One often wonders who lets these people direct movies. I suppose this is one of those movies financed by a rich relative. It is just typical of the phrase "They'll let anybody direct a movie these days."I watched this because I'm a big Darren McGavin fan. Too bad he didn't end his career with his stellar turn in "The Natural" instead of taking this home movie as a job.

K Sprowl This would be an excellent movie for Mystery Science Theater 3000 to do. Predictable plot with lots of gore and a hideous bad guy with good comic relief like spouting "no parking" after killing Jorga Fox in the car.Only time I would recommend it is if you were having a marathon horror flick on a weekend near Halloween, would be an interesting one to add to the fare for the '90's nostalgic look, the ugly, yet comical, demon and the adequate gory special effects. Only other reason would be if you are a Darrin McGavin or Jorga Fox fan as it displays their attempt to breathe life into cardboard character of the script.

Maciste_Brother HAPPY HELL NIGHT, also known as FRAT FRIGHT (which I have on VHS), is terrible. There's nothing else to say about it. It's just bad. Almost as bad as PLEDGE NIGHT, which is one of the worst of the worst films of all time. Yep, HAPPY HELL NIGHT is that bad: bad acting, bad cinematography, horrible script, even worse dialogue, clueless direction, etc. The only good things about HAPPY HELL NIGHT are the gore (well made for such a low budget flick) and that really creepy actor playing the killer. He should be in better films.But aside from those two things, the rest is total crap. AVOID!!!