julie ( meg tilly ) be a goody two shoe type high school girl who and determine to prove something to herself and allow herself to be subject to the ritual of the sister and a small scale clique preside over by snooty and homecoming queen type carol ( robin evans ) . the sister propose that for julie final test she will spend the night in a mausoleum and prepare to drive julie up the wall and but not know that recently decease and ill intentioned psychic raymar be inter there and have plan to cause havoc from beyond the grave . while this debut picture for tom mcloughlin ( friday the 13th part vi represent jason life and sometimes they come back ) be limit by it obviously low budget and it what mcloughlin and his crew be able to do with it that count . it genuinely creepy and unsettling fare while it might have very well scar the stuff out of me if i be under 10 year of age and and even at my current age and it still get to me to a degree . some of the effect look cheesy and but the decent look corps and gore be create by tom burman and an experienced makeup effect artist and who and while tend to be overshadow by more famous name like winston and baker and and bottin and have a good resume with other film like cat people ( 1982 ) and the beast within to his credit . what i like most about it be a real sense of foreboding and atmosphere and an aspect missing from some of the current trendy horror movie be show in our multiplex . tilly be cute and appeal in her role and have recently complete her debut film work in tex before join this production . one dark night be complete some time before it release to theater in 1983 and where it actually do decent business during it first few week . the other actor do what they have to do well enough while familiar face in the support cast include the equally appeal veteran singer or actress or voice over artist elizabeth ( a. k. a. e. g. ) daily and kevin peter hall and for once not play some sort of creature character and but who unfortunately end up with very little screen time and and none other than adam batman west . the director wife nancy and who would play lizbeth in jason life and appear here a the spacey girl in front of the arcade . it decent b level horror entertainment and maybe too cheap for it ambition and and maybe not that slick ( hey and mcloughlin be just start out ) and but definitely good for some chill . positive .