Screams of a Winter Night

1979

Action / Horror / Mystery

Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 25% · 3 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 25%
IMDb Rating 4.8/10 10 855 855

Plot summary

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.

Top cast

William Ragsdale as The Kid - Service Station Attendant
Jan Norton as Lauri
720p.BLU
1.06 GB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 58 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by afrocut 4 / 10

Wait, what?

With an incredibly bad first half filled with unlikable characters and boring stories, this movie does a complete turn around in its last half. Primarily an anthology film with numerous stories being told at your stereotypical cabin in the words by your stereotypical adults playing teens, complete with the nerd, the sexist jock, his lover and Mistress, the unlikable female friend, the cool guy and his girlfriend and a bunch of others ready to die screaming when the film deems it time. Sadly the stories don't live up to the wrap around one and it's insanely over the top finale. But its that last 10 minutes or so filled with pure bad movie insanity, including over the top acting and screaming, outlandish effects and crazy lore that will leave you so in shock you will feel you've seen a so bad its good masterpiece. Unfortunately it's not quite so, it's very very tedious in set up, it's bad print will have you questioning flashes on screen, it's actors choices will have you rolling your eyes, and it's side stories can feel like major slogs to get through. Still, it's something that needs to be witnessed, especially by those brave souls who truly love trash.
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Reviewed by udar55 5 / 10

Wrap around is scarier than the actual stories

Five couples head up to a cabin in the woods and frighten each other on a windy night with scary stories. "Moss Point Man" tells the familiar story of a couple on a date terrorized by a killer. "Green Light" is about three frat brothers enduring an initiation at an abandoned building thats second floor is supposedly haunted. And "Crazy Annie" covers a girl named Annie who is, well, crazy. This 70s anthology is pretty hard to find, but don't begin thinking it is some long lost classic. Shot entirely in Louisiana, the film isn't going to give TALES FROM THE CRYPT or ASYLUM any sleepless nights. The main problem is the stories just aren't very good, delivering more of a thud than a punch at the end of each one. The only inventive thing going on here is that the people telling the stories also play the different characters in them. The film's end - where a giant gust of wind kills everyone - is actually the best part of the film and pretty creepy. Look for a very young William Ragsdale (FRIGHT NIGHT) making his screen debut as a gas station attendant.

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