One Dark Night (1982) on Netflix
A mausoleum where a Russian occultist was just entombed becomes the site of a high school initiation. Julie Wells must spend the night there to join a clique called The Sisters.
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Plot summary
Police find six murdered girls in the apartment of Karl Raymarseivich Raymar, a Russian occultist, and cannot explain it. Electricity shoots from Raymar's fingers when coroners lift his body onto a stretcher. Raymar's daughter Olivia McKenna and her husband Allan hear about it from Samuel Dockstader, a writer for The World of the Occult. Dockstader, a former friend of Raymar, says the occultist was a psychic vampire who abducted girls and lived on the bioenergy they gave off, which is how he gained telekinesis. Allan does not believe him, but photographs and an audiotape convince Olivia. Elsewhere, Julie Wells, a high school student, hopes to join The Sisters, a clique of Carol, Leslie and Kitty. Carol, Steve's ex-girlfriend, is jealous, and she arranges a night alone in a mausoleum for Julie, not knowing Raymar had been entombed there that day.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about One Dark Night (1982)
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- After four years of failing to sell their script to studios, Tom McLoughlin and Michael Hawes found a group of Mormon investors willing to finance the film for one million dollars, on the condition that shooting started within three weeks.
- Meg Tilly was genuinely freaked out during the mausoleum scenes and did not want to be there, but she let that fear work for her and carried the same vibe onto the special-effects set, raising the bar in the film.
- Director Tom McLoughlin, who wanted a "classic beautiful blond geek girl" as the heroine, looked at Sharon Stone and Dominique Dunne before casting 19-year-old Meg Tilly, and Batman actor Adam West was later cast as the lead male character.
