Made in 1985 when TV movies still looked filmatic, TV specials were still special and had good production values, The Midnight Hour certainly to an outside America viewer is an obscure ABC Halloween treat. Directed by Jack Bender there's some great make up monster effects and it's far from a mediocre made-for-TV horror comedy. With homages to The Wolfman, Dracula and the more recent Night of the Living Dead and Thriller there's plenty of cobwebs, graves and gate crashed suburban Halloween parties to hold attention.
As with the risen from the dead 50s cheerleader Sandy (Jonna Lee) highlighting the differences of 1985, that's The Midnight Hour biggest hook as now plays a great piece of 80s nostalgia. There's also a subplot love story town in amongst the TV horror shenanigans. With almost every horror track from Blue Moon to The Smith's How Soon is Now there's also (The Terminator) Brad Fiedel's ambitious fitting score.
The cast are above average and include the stunning Shari Lynn Belafonte, LeVar Burton, Jonna Lee, Dedee Pfeiffer as Mary Masterson, Kurtwood Smith cameos and Macaulay Culkin makes a brief debut.
Not too scary for junior children, werewolf, vampires, zombies, ghouls, and goblins add up to on screen creepy campy fun, you can't go wrong.
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