Midnight (1982) USED Hanna-Barbera a fatalistic wartime tragedy derived

a fatalistic wartime tragedy derived from stories by Akinari Ueda and Guy de Maupassant

Audio commentary with critic and film historian David Thompson (2019)

with each scene looking increasingly more realistic and brutal

Cynthia Erivo

the jiangshi film

Midnight (1982) USED Hanna-Barbera a fatalistic wartime tragedy derivedA decade after co writing NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, writer director John Russo gathered members of George Romero's Pittsburgh crews to film a new shocker fueled by equal parts grisly grindhouse jolts and '80s satanic panic: Fleeing her pervy alcoholic stepfather (Lawrence Tierney of RESERVOIR DOGS infamy), a hitchhiking teen (Melanie Verlin) is abducted by a family of crazed homicidal rednecks for an ordeal of graphic butchery, shag carpet and devil