The Midnight Hour (also known as In the Midnight Hour) is a 1985 comedy/horror television movie which aired on ABC on November 1, 1985, and stars Shari Belafonte-Harper, LeVar Burton, Peter DeLuise, and Dedee Pfeiffer.
Plot
It is Halloween in the small town of Pitchford Cove located somewhere in New England, and five high school friends, Phil (Lee Montgomery), Mary (Dedee Pfeiffer), Mitch (Peter DeLuise), Vinnie (LeVar Burton), and Melissa (Shari Belafonte-Harper), plan on making it a night they will never forget. They steal outfits from the town's historic museum and come upon other old artifacts, including an old trunk containing an ancient curse. When Melissa recites the curse at the local cemetery, things take a turn for the worse. The town's dead, led by Melissa's great-grandmother Lucinda (Jonelle Allen), a vampire who was put to death 300 years earlier, rise up from their graves and roam the town. As Melissa, Vinnie, Mitch, and Mary enjoy themselves at their annual Halloween costume party, Phil encounters a mysterious girl, named Sandy (Jonna Lee), dressed in a vintage 1950's cheerleader outfit, who warns him that the whole town is in danger.
Meanwhile, Lucinda and the various ghouls crash the costume party. At first, nobody pays much attention to them since everyone is in costume. However, Lucinda begins turning the party guests into vampires, starting with Melissa, then Vinnie, and so on. When Phil discovers that Sandy is one of the resurrected dead too, they realize that the whole town is being overrun by the living dead and decide to team up to break the curse. It's up to Phil and 'good zombie' Sandy to restore the town to normal by midnight before it is too late and the curse becomes permanent.
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DVD release
Anchor Bay Entertainment released The Midnight Hour on Region 1 DVD on September 19, 2000.[1] The movie was previously released on VHS by Anchor Bay Entertainment on July 20, 1999.
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