Screams of a Winter Night
Screams of a Winter Night
PG | 26 January 1979 (USA)
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Ten college friends take a winter weekend camping trip to Lake Durand. The group holes up in an old cabin where the original owners were once found dead, with local Native Americans suspecting they were the victims of a spirit called Shataba. As the group nestles in for the night, they start telling each other scary stories.

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Manhattan Grrl

As to why some have mentioned this film to be creepy, scary, uneasy, etc. Maybe I had to have first seen this when I was a teen or for that matter a pre-teen to appreciate this movie but seeing this as an adult after all the build up on how good this movie is supposed to be was a huge let down. And this is coming from someone who even to this day and age is still a sucker for scary movies. I recently watched "The Turn of the Screw", "Full Circle" (Mia Farrow), "Don't Look Now" (Donald Sutherland) and "The Ring" & those movies got under my skin and had me feeling uneasy and looking back over my shoulder for days. Not this film.

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shango7200

I saw this in high school around 1979. It was playing at our local Century theater and it was a blustery fall night. This movie was paired with another low budget movie called "The Redeemer" that was like an early slasher film about a masked killer knocking off people at (I think) a high school reunion. I cannot add anything more or repeat the plot as the above posters did, but I will say that low budget 16 MM film is the perfect medium for horror and nothing has surpassed it! This movie proves it. The stories are pretty tame but the atmosphere is perfect. With all the garbage that turns up on DVD....why not this?! I so expected this to show up in one of those "20 Chilling Movies" sets for $9.99. I have a bootleg copy from a VHS and that first story (shot as "day for night") is WAY TOO DARK. This played on cable TV in the early 80s and I told all my horror fan friends to watch it but they did not enjoy it as I did. I miss the old days when you'd go into a movie and see things like this. No hype, no stars, no fanfare. Just unexpected terror!

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Woodyanders

A bunch of young adults go deep into the woods to a remote cabin and tell each other several scary urban legend-style stories. First and coolest vignette - A diminutive albino Bigfoot creature stalks a teenage couple who find themselves stuck in the middle of nowhere after their car runs out of gas. Second and most frightening tale - Three college fraternity pledges spend the night at an old abandoned hospital that's said to be haunted. Third and most disturbing yarn - A mousy, repressed young coed turns out to be a deranged murderess. Finally, our motley group of young adults discover that the local legend of a vicious Indian wind demon isn't far-fetched in the least. Director James L. Wilson and writer Richard H. Wadsack neatly craft a fun and engrossing omnibus outing that eschews the usual graphic gore and bloodshed in favor of creating and sustaining a potently creepy and nightmarish midnight-in-the-graveyard gloom-doom atmosphere; the opening credits sequence in particular is very chilling and the conclusion packs one hell of a terrifying punch. The isolated sylvan setting projects a truly unnerving sense of dread and vulnerability. The spirited shivery'n'shuddery score by Don Zimmers does the flesh-crawling trick. The pretty, fairly polished cinematography by Robert E. Rogers likewise hits the spot. Moreover, the game no-name cast all contribute winningly sincere and enthusiastic performances. A shamefully neglected and unheralded drive-in terror treat.

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tweets2663

I seen this movie when I was about 17 yrs old. We snuck in so I never caught the title of the movie, but It really gave me the creeps. I finally found the title searching the internet. Toward the end was the scariest. LOL This movie really scared the daylights out of me. It definitely was B-rated though. I really have to see it again. I hope it still gives me the heebee-jeebees. If anything my kids should get a good scare out of it. The only part I didn't get was the last scene. I'm not sure if the director was leaving that part open for a sequel or left it up to the audience to decide. I definitely have to see this one again.

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