KnotMissPriceless Why so much hype?

Dotsthavesp I wanted to but couldn't!

UnowPriceless hyped garbage

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Anthony D I decided to watch this movie because I've heard a lot about it. I figured it must be a pretty good movie, even though I knew it would be a little cheesy (also, I always love getting my hands on rare stuff). I wasn't expecting anything close to a masterpiece, but at the same time I feel like it fell a little short of my expectations.To start off, give this movie the award for scariest title of all time. If the title alone doesn't make you curious about this movie, then I don't know what planet you're on. The opening scene is also pretty great. The movie is basically about a small group of young adults who go up to an isolated cabin for some time while they take turns telling pretty lame scary stories to each other. At the same time, the very area that they're staying at has quite a frightening legend of its own.There isn't anything scary in the slightest about the stories they tell. It's really quite boring actually. The bit that I found to be pretty chilling is the atmosphere when they're telling them. You can just tell that something isn't right, so kudos to the director for being able to create that vibe. Unfortunately, that's the only scary part of the entire movie. The rest of it is interesting (I guess), but fails to accomplish the task of scaring you.The end is pretty bizarre, which makes me wonder if there's more than meets the eye with this movie. Is there some kind of point, or message that they're trying to get across here? Is this supposed to be some kind of representation of how people can turn stories or ideas into a bigger deal than they need to be (especially since that's kind of a recurring theme throughout the film), or is it really as pointless as it seems? I honestly don't know. Either way I'd give it 4/10 because its scary moments did legitimately spook me, but the majority of the movie falls a bit short in my view.Also to be fair, it truly appears they had NO budget to work with on this film. I think they did okay with what they had.

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.

wads2609 Quinton Tarantino included this flick in his 2007 LA Grindhouse Film Festival, and the print was not only from his personal collection, but he introduced the movie himself at it's first screening. His praise followed the lines of the review appearing at the head of this IMDb comments section: this was innovative in 1978 (I saw it first in its test market run, before it got national distribution). Tarantino asserted the belief that it was the first of the "kids-go-to-the-lake" scare flicks; that it was innovative in its "stories-within-the-story" for the genre; and, that for the dollars, the acting, directing, camera work and special effects are pretty damn good. And they're both right. It cost less to make and test market than the production of the average regional TV spot today. More trivia: note the name of the sound mixer: Ron Judkins. Two-time Oscar winner. William Ragsdale: "Fright Night", etc. And look up Gil Glascow in IMDb; he's worked steadily all these years.