"Midnight Show"

1978

Written by:  Kel Kendrick

Art Director:  Simone Schaffer

Directed by:  Stephan Brackett

 Genre:  Horror

Taglines:  "Live Dead Girls!" Now slaying at the MIDNIGHT SHOW

Plot Summary:

(From the "Horrific Horror Films" website) If BAD NIGHT was attacked for its shocking content, Alex Reynolds' starring role follow-up, MIDNIGHT SHOW was just plain bad. In fact, it had a very similar plot but less original twists and deaths. 17 year old Mary (Reynolds) tries to burn her house down after her parents get a divorce, so she is shipped off to a convent. One night, a deaf lesbian nun named Millicent seemingly stabs Mary's best friend to death. The nuns exact brutal vengeance on the actually innocent Millicent and then try to cover up their mistake by sending any witnesses including Mary into a white slavery midnight peep show with the real killer among them. After the amazing first 30 minutes, the movie quickly descends into a "women in prison" type setting where not much happens and not even Alex Reynolds in a nude mud wrestling scene can save this trite exploitation film. No shocking kitten death, but a dog does die off screen after feasting on Millicent's poisoned corpse..  

 

Cast overview, first billed only

 

Alex Reynolds                     ....Mary

Robbi Ralph                         ...Millicent

Lyn Carter                            ...Rebecca

Ed Call                                ...John Wyss

Sandy King                          ...Loretta Wyss

Regina Paltani                      ...Skipper

Michelle Demarco                 ...Blair

Shannon Theissen                ...Ronda

Joe Thompson                      ...Father Ramey

Monifa Sutton                       ...Sister Pearl

Candy Kane                         ...Sister Sarah Margaret Catherine

Lucia Sanchez                     ...Dead girl in doorway

Runtime: 93 min

Country: USA

Studio: Kismet/Kel's Television Jax/One Girl Productions

Language: English

Color: Color

Sound Mix: Mono

Trivia:  Originally marketed with an X rating prior to release in 1978, but official MPAA ratings were R for nudity, graphic sexual situations, language, and extreme violence.

Certification:  Norway:16 (DVD rating) (2005) (self applied) / Australia:(Banned) (original rating) / Australia:R (re-rating) (2004) (uncut) / Canada:R / France:-16 / Iceland:(Banned) / Ireland:18 (cut UK version) / Netherlands:16 / New Zealand:(Banned) (original rating) / New Zealand:R18 (re-rating) (2004) (uncut) / Norway:(Banned) / UK:(Banned) (original rating) / UK:18 (video rating) (2002) (cut) / USA:R (heavily cut) / USA:Unrated (director's cut) / West Germany:(Banned) / Italy:VM18 / Finland:K-18 / Germany:16 (heavily cut)