i have never even heard of one dark night until someone mention it on a horror message board here recently and and read into it and i gain interest due to meg tilly involvement and recognize that it be an early gig for friday the 13th vi representjason live director tom mcloughlin . unfortunately and sad to say and it nothing special . the premise have a familiarity to it representa college girl must survive the night in an old mausoleum until morning in order to join a sorority . that girl be a young meg tilly and a julie and who wish to prove to her loving and care boyfriend and steve ( david mason daniel ) that she can make his cruel and connive ex girlfriend and carol ( robin evans ) sorority regardless of the tactic she pull in order to see her fail . along with carol gang be kitty ( leslie speights ) and always with a toothbrush in her mouth and and leslie ( elizabeth daily ) who doesn not really wish to cause julie such trouble . while leslie insists on leave julie alone a she remain in the mausoleum and carol and kitty plan to torment the poor girl . meanwhile steve search for her while julie and carol and kitty encounter an evil they couldn not possibly imagine . the corpse of a recently diseased psychic vampire and whose telekinesis be of a dangerously powerful degree and will seek to drain them of their very lifeforce . the only one who can help these girl be the dead man daughter and olivia ( melissa newman ) who be equip with the same psychic power he have . i think what many will find exciting be the unusual evil that threaten the girl in the mausoleum and it certainly different than what you normally see in the slasher that be out at this time . like adam west character ( . he be the cynical husband of olivia who find the idea of her father power ridiculous ) and i have a really hard time adjust to the tacky plot and and i personally never find anything within the film to get excite about . the mausoleum to me never really be that spooky ( . it doesn not really achieve the same kind of eerie quality phantasm capture ) and the corps which be use to attack the girl be laughably unconvincing ( . there be one great scene where a corpse face melt away ) . i have a soft spot for low budget film from this period of time and but i just never really could find a reason to get involve when you have this unsatisfying undead corpse shoot electric bolt from it eye cause other body to break free from their crypt to obey their master . it just too silly to take seriously . carol be your typical blond bitch wish to punish a nice girl who be date a former flame . steve be your typical and squeaky clean all american boyfriend and handsome and tender and who become the hero seek to save his girl from whatever sinister force be at play . to make up for the small budget director mcloughlin try every trick in the book to thrill the audience and use a series of ooga booga effect such a corps which pursue young girl and chair which shake and tremble and door that slam shut and and object levitate by themselves . the film obviously have it fan and and i be glad i have a chance to see it and but i be a bit disappointed that one dark night wasn not the horror sleeper i hop for . adam west have a very small role a the concerned husband hop his wife will snap out of her depressed state regard a father who have nothing to do with her . melissa newman be the troubled olivia and recognizing that she must stop her father once and for all or else he would continue to prey on the living . donald hotton be dockstader and an associate of olivia father who inform her of what he be . i wasn not particularly blow away by tilly performance here ( . she be basically scared most of the time ) and but she would get a chance to prove herself to a great degree from this point onward . this will undoubtedly be of some value to those who watch it back at that time and for nostalgia purpose it might seduce fan of movie from this era .