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To All A Goodnight (1980)
Topic Started: Apr 29 2013, 03:28 AM (1,573 Views)
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It's Christmas break at the Calvin Finishing School for Girls, and the students are planning a big party while the president of the school is away. A group of boys show up and the fun begins, until mysterious killer starts bumping off couples one by one. The police show up and promise to keep everyone safe, but they prove ineffectual against the crazed psycho. Could the killings have anything to do with the girl who was killed in an initiation stunt at the school a few years earlier?
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Coming October 21st on DVD and Blu-ray From Kino Lorber - 1980 slasher classic TO ALL A GOODNIGHT, one of the first killer Santa Claus film - Starring JENNIFER RUNYON and Directed by DAVID HESS (LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT). This is the first time this film has ever been out on Blu Ray and DVD here in America!

Special Features and DVD and BLU produced by Scorpion Releasing - Recommended to Kino Lorber by Scorpion Releasing - Includes NEW on-camera interview with stars JENNIFER RUNYON and KATHLEEN HERRINGTON and the producer and writer ALEX REBAR (THE INCREDBILE MELTING MAN) and the original trailer. Front art not final.
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*SHRIEKS AND JUMPS UP AND DOWN FLAPPING MY ARMS AROUND*

Fuck yes, its about time! Too bad it couldn't be released on October 14th (my birthday) (d)
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I wonder if its gonna be a dvd/blu ray combo pack, or just separate.
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If its not a combo pack, I'll be annoyed. :/
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If its not a combo pack, I'll be annoyed. :/
Yeah me too lol.
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*They release it separately on DVD and BluRay and both have special features that the other copy doesn't have* (suicide)
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Watching this now<3. Love Mrs. Ranzoni, Mrs. Jensen, Leah, and the British chick who is obsessed with sex ("I wonder what SHE dreams about ;) " ). And Ralph is the most obvious redherring in the history of red herrings. And Nancy is one of the most clichéd final girls ever, lol.

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And apparently this was released BEFORE Friday The 13th. O_o
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So it turns out the new release is not a combo pack. Not sure why not.
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Ew, that sucks. (un) Oh well, I still plan on getting it even though I've already seen this like five times and I don't see it disappearing from Youtube anytime soon.
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I always thought this was pretty good. It's weird enough to be entertaining without going too far and becoming annoying. The end is fun.

After reading the thread, I might need to look up some information about the version that I watched, because it looks a lot better than the one on YouTube, but it isn't new enough to be the new release. I never watched the one on YouTube, so I was pretty confused by everyone saying it was too dark. The version I've watched doesn't look amazing, but it's pretty decent.
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I revisited this film last night for the first time in many years. I also recall it being a very dark film,but the new blu ray release has certainly fixed that problem. Very clear. It's a decent if not spectacular slasher,although considering it has a killer Santa it doesn't quite nail the feel of Christmas I think. And the constant night scenes in clear daylight had me chuckling a fair bit.
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I loved that they were constantly using a filter or something to make it seem like it was night, especially since there was no need for some of those scenes to be taking place at night.
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They used to do it a lot in the 70's and 80's. I just found it a little silly that the girls tell us that the plane with the guys is coming at midnight, yet the scene was clearly filmed in daylight. This may actually explain why previous releases have been so dark.
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Yay, just checked the shipping-tracker and my DVD will be arriving in the next 12 hours! ^_^
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DVD Contents;

Movie; 1:27:15 (4 minutes longer than what is on Youtube?)
Trailer; 3:00
Jennifer Runyon Interview; 12:30
Katherine Herrington Interview; 9:35
Alex Rebar (Writer/Producer) Interview; 13:40

And the movie looks gorgeous<3. Just went through and skipped through a couple of scenes.
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Just watched the trailer and it's one of the most spoilery I've seen! (lol)

Watching the interviews now. Jennifer still looks gorgeous! And she's talking about how she was so excited to be in the first 'killer Santa' slasher.
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Can't wait to get this so I can finally see a GOOD quality version of this movie. That crap on youtube was not kind to the eyes.
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Ooh, according to Alex Rebar there were multiple endings filmed and they just "picked one" in the editing process. I wonder what the others are. Sucks THOSE didn't show up on the DVD.
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Loved Katherine Herrington's interview. She still looks really good for age and I learned that her real name is actually Kiva Lawrence and that Katherine Herrington is her mother's name.
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Overall this one here was a pretty disappointing slasher. One of the main issues here is the fact that the film is just unbelievably slow and doesn't really offer up much of an enjoyable pace here, content merely to cruise along without really getting much of anything going. The early scenes of the girls getting ready for their party and ensuring that their festivities go uninterrupted is a long, never-ending series of bland, wholly unappealing moments here that just grind the film to a halt, not the least of which here is also caused by the film's seemingly curious decision to start the massacre fairly early on, then instead let the bodies be discovered the next day and wait until the following night to continue things. While the decision not to carry out the single-night rampage is rather unique, instead this causes the film to appear as though it has two character-building montages here as we get the initial arrival and pairing off in day one then we get them doing this again on day two as now that they're aware of the killer at the beginning of the day it wastes all the time until later that night to finally unleash the killer again and this set-up isn't that enjoyable. Still, beyond this the film's main detrimental strike comes from the majority of the actual horror factors involved not really being of much interest here, from bland and wholly un-suspenseful stalking scenes to bland kills that don't offer up much of any blood or gore and never really lets itself play with the supposedly-chilling idea of a killer loose in a dorm-room house the way this one could've as this one just goes about in a round- about way of getting to the carnage. There's almost nothing scary about the killer here beyond the damage done to the victims' bodies, and that tends to really wash over this one quite easily with a series of forgettable scenes with a hilariously-nonthreatening Santa-suited killer running around in a matter-of-factly manner that doesn't come close to giving this anything to get worked up over, and all combined really takes this down a notch. There's a few areas here that this does get right, namely from the fact that the film's body count offers up some potentially intriguing fun here with a lot of bland-conceptually but gruesomely-executed kills here, as the fact that there's two big rampages that knock them off in groups makes for a generally fun time in those parts with some decent chasing being done to satisfy the slasher fan in those moments. Those in and of themselves are much better than expected here just for the sheer cheesy fun they offer here as there's not much else about this one that works here only than the body count and how many stalking scenes there are, even though they're not always impressive.
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