As an initiation rite into Alpha Sigma Rho fraternity, four pledges must spend a night in Garth Manor, twelve years to the day after the previous resident murdered his entire family.
Production
Gloriously creepy real mansion locations with secret passages.
Practical Effects
Grotesque deformed killer design that aged weirdly well.
Acting
Linda Blair elevating material she clearly knows is beneath her.
Director
Tom DeSimone
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Garth Mansion was the same location used for the original Halloween's Michael Myers house exterior.
Released at the peak of the slasher boom, it tried to split the difference between Halloween's restraint and Friday the 13th's body count—satisfying neither camp fully.
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