Girls Nite Out (1982)

Directed by

Robert Deubel

Genre

horror film, slasher film, mystery film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

R

Rating

4.7 of 10 from 46 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

College students stay up all night for a scavenger hunt. A killer in a bear mascot costume begins stalking and attacking the young women on campus.

suspensefuldatedcampygrittyfast-pacedtension-filledatmosphericcollege-set

What happens

Girls Nite Out is a 1982 American slasher film directed by Robert Deubel, and starring Julia Montgomery, Suzanne Barnes, Rutanya Alda, Lauren-Marie Taylor, and Hal Holbrook. It focuses on a group of female college students who are targeted by a killer in a bear mascot costume during an all-night scavenger hunt on their Ohio campus. The film was developed by Anthony N. Gurvis and Kevin Kurgis, two law firm partners in Columbus, Ohio, who completed a screenplay originally titled Blood Games in 1979. After securing Holbrook to appear in the film, principal photography was scheduled to begin on the campus of Denison University in the summer of 1980, but approval to film there was subsequently revoked. Gurvis and Kurgis then decided to relocate the production to New York, where the remainder of casting took place. The film was shot on location at Upsala College in East Orange, New Jersey as well as the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, New York, over a period of 21 days in early 1982. Girls Nite Out first received a test market theatrical release in the southern United States on December 3, 1982 under the title The Scaremaker through Samuel M. Sherman's distribution company Independent International Pictures. After the test market release failed to generate significant box office returns, Kurgis formed his own distribution company, Aries International, through which the film was given an expanded released under the better-known Girls Nite Out title. It received largely unfavorable reviews from critics, many of whom derided the film for its incorporation of humor contrasting against its violent content, as well as its expansive ensemble of characters. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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