The Midnight Hour
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The Midnight Hour DVD cover
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| Genre | Comedy Horror Romance Thriller |
| Written by | Bill Bleich |
| Directed by | Jack Bender |
| Starring |
Shari Belafonte-Harper LeVar Burton Lee Montgomery Peter DeLuise Dedee Pfeiffer Jonna Lee Dick Van Patten Kurtwood Smith |
| Theme music composer | Brad Fiedel |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
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| Executive producer(s) | Sharon Sawyer (as Sharon L. Sawyer) |
| Producer(s) | Ervin Zavada Jill Mullikin-Bates |
| Cinematography | Rexford L. Metz |
| Editor(s) | David A. Simmons |
| Running time | 94 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
ABC Video Enterprises Capital Cities |
| Distributor | ABC |
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| Original network | ABC |
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The Midnight Hour (also known as In the Midnight Hour) is a 1985 American comedy-horror television film that aired on ABC on Friday, November 1, 1985, at 9:00-11:00 PM EST. It stars Shari Belafonte-Harper, LeVar Burton, Peter DeLuise, and Dedee Pfeiffer. The plot focuses on a small New England town that becomes overrun with zombies, witches, vampires, and all the other demons of hell after a group of teenagers unlock a centuries-old curse on Halloween. The film marks Macaulay Culkin's first screen role as an uncredited trick-or-treater.
The film was released on VHS and DVD by Anchor Bay Entertainment in 2000. In addition to an original musical number, "Get Dead", the film's soundtrack features songs by Wilson Pickett, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs, Three Dog Night, and The Smiths.
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), 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 encasing a paper scroll which contains an ancient curse. When Melissa, latent sorceress, recites the curse at the local cemetery, things take a turn for the worse.
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