Screams of a Winter Night (1979) on Netflix
Ten friends spend a winter weekend at a cabin on Lake Durand, where the Durand family was found dead. Locals blame a spirit called Shataba. The group tells scary stories.
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Plot summary
John drives nine friends to his family's cabin at Lake Durand for a winter weekend. The place is run down, and Elaine tells her boyfriend Alan she wishes they had not come. John shows Cal the graves of the Durand family, killed years earlier, their bodies scattered across the property. Police blamed a gas explosion; local Native Americans blamed Shataba, a spirit said to roam the woods in winter. Inside, the friends build a fire and swap stories. John tells of the Moss Point Man, a small creature said to have terrorized a couple on a country road, and Steve describes three fraternity pledges sent to spend a night in an abandoned hotel, warned to stay off its upper floors. Jookie grows frightened and wants to leave.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Screams of a Winter Night (1979)
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- The first 200 copies of Code Red's Blu-ray edition of Screams of a Winter Night sold out in about 30 minutes when they went on sale on February 8, 2019.
- Director James L. Wilson was inspired to direct Screams of a Winter Night by the success of other local filmmakers such as Charles B. Pierce and Joy Houck.
