AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

trashgang Can someone tell me why this is a hard sought OOP flick. Really i mean, I have searched a long time to catch it and finally it is in my possession. I thought, well, this is going to be a classic. In the genre. I knew that the quality of the reel is terrible with a lot of bad editing and hue problems and bad sound, that I don' mind. I have seen a lot of drive-in flicks and exploitation ones but this one really has nothing to tell. It starts of pretty well. You got the prologue credits and while they are given with black intervals you hear people screaming and you hear some kind of howling. But still it's black on your screen. I was hooked on the television to see what would happen next, but nothing really happened. It's just a bunch of friends telling scary tales, and while telling they cross over to that story on screen. But being 1979 and being in the heydays of the slashers this doesn't deliver. No blood, well, not to mention, no knifes going in, no nudity just a lot of blah blah. Only the ending, the last 7 minutes things go wrong with the friends and that's the best part. The monster (bigfoot) shown on the cover of the VHS, well, he appears maybe for 2 minutes. But still a lot of geeks are searching for this for me boring flick. The only thing I can say is, I have it in my collection. Not my cup of tea. Only available on VHS.

Coventry This movie, and really I'm glad to see that practically all reviewers around here seem think so as well, has something unbelievably creepy going for it! It pretty much epitomizes what low-budgeted horror from the late 70's/early 80's was all about. It starts with an enormously enticing title already (which horror fan wouldn't want to see something that's called "Screams of a Winter Night?") and a truly vicious old VHS cover illustration showing a Sasquatch kind of monster emerging from a dark swamp under a bright full moon. This film may be utterly bargain- basement, but it's moody, atmospheric and old-fashioned scary. "Screams of a Winter Night" is an omnibus/anthology film but, for once, the wraparound story is actually more dominant and superior. The three little stories, which can more or less be described as simplistic but uncanny urban legends, are genuinely frightening and identifiable in spite of not being very original, while the wraparound story becomes increasingly more intense and literally ends like a nightmare. Ten people head out for a weekend to a cabin in the woods nearby a place the native Indians called "Coyote Lake". They don't really behave like good friends and try to petrify each other with spooky tales. The first, entitled "The Moss Point Man", is a story everyone is more or less familiar with. It's the urban legend of a young couple that runs out of gas on a forsaken forestry road late at night. The boy leaves to get gas, while the girl reluctantly remains behind and starts to hear strange noises – almost like scratching – on the rooftop. I bet you know how this one ends! The second story is even more basic, but also very unsettling. Three male frat boys have to spend the night in an abandoned and reputedly haunted hotel for their initiation. They're told to stay away from the upper floors, but that's exactly where the strange noises are coming from. This tale has an moody denouement and leaves you pondering somewhat upset. The third and final tale is a winner as well, as it revolves on the typical girl next door who gradually turns into a psychopath after an attempted rape. Meanwhile, as the kids frighten each other with their stories, the diabolical wind outside the cabin rises and something evil lurks from behind the trees. "Screams of a Winter Night" was made during the late 70's around the peak of the "Bigfoot" trend. This is clearly noticeable in the first tale as well as at several points during the wraparound story. The movie doesn't feature a lot of gruesome make-up effects or sex sequences, but the tone is non- stop unnerving like it ought to be good in good horror. The fog machines are working overtime, the sound effects are guaranteed to haunt your dreams at night, the camera wanders through the woods ominously and none of the characters (although supposedly friends) seem to care about each other. Great stuff! I just hope that some day, hopefully sooner than later, there will be a proper DVD-edition of "Screams from a Winter Night". The rarely available VHS and DVD-R versions suffer from an incredibly poor quality.

HumanoidOfFlesh "Screams of a Winter Night" was made with student actors attending Northwestern State University in Natchitoches,Louisiana,a college that has since been abandoned,the neglected campus becoming a popular teen hang-out.It consists three genuinely spooky stories told by a young campers in an old cabin.The first one is about 'The Moss Point Man',a Yeti-like creature encountered by a local girl and her boyfriend deep in the woods.The second one is about a mute psychopath in an allegedly haunted hotel with the climax somewhat reminding me "The Blair Witch Project".The third story is about a sexually repressed girl turning psycho after an attempted rape.The strange,howling wind is becoming stronger and stronger...Creepy low-budget gem from late 70's without gore and nudity.It has some great scares and surprising twists.8 out of 10.

preppy-3 I rented this film way back in 1987. I had never heard of it and the PG rating had me expecting the worst. Still I love horror films so I gave this a try. I saw it on a dark, cold winter night. There was a snowstorm going on outside, I was alone in the house and I turned off all the lights. Under those conditions this film scared me silly.The opening is all sound effects against a black screen of something attacking a family in their house on a winters night. It gets in and kills them all. Very effective--the sound effects are realistic and NOT seeing the monsters makes it all the more scarier. That opening alone is worth seeing this for.It's an anthology movie--a bunch of kids telling horror stories around a campfire. The movie is tame (remember--it's PG rated) and the stories are kind of predictable but the middle one got me going. It's about a bunch of guys spending the night in a deserted, supposedly haunted house. They're on the first floor...and then they hear noises on the floor above...THAT scared me silly. The ending was REAL bad but, for a while, that had me shaking.So, it's not a good film, but there's something about it that really works. I (cautiously) recommend this.