'One Dark Night' (1982) - Tom McLoughlin.

Made not long after, Don Coscarelli's iconoclastic spectral sphere-delirium 'Phantasm', fellow genre iconoclast, Tom McLoughlin's blackly funny descent into grisly-Gothic telekinetic terror, 'One Dark Night' remains no less of a creepily inventive, cliché free classic! Moulding the plastic premise of prank-laden 'Teen initiation horror' into something horrifyingly unexpected, like abruptly discovering a swarming morass of putrescence in the nauseatingly pulpy centre of your caramel-topped donut! Excluding budgetary limitations, which can occasionally prove to be creatively advantageous, the main benefits of independently made horror cinema like 'One Dark Night' are that the limits imposed are solely those of the filmmaker's imagination.

Too pretty to be the girl next door, Julie Wells (Meg Tilly) ardently wishes to join smart-aleck, lavender-jacketed clique 'The Sisters', and to do so the stiflingly demure Ms. Wells must first surmount her own innate timidity. Weathering the ceaseless hazing of pretty blonde despot, Carol Mason (Robin Evans) the increasingly anxious, Julie must endure the entire night locked inside in the imposingly grim mausoleum! Surrounded by the not-so restful dead, her terrifying vigil is compounded by their increasingly malevolent pranks, with far worse to come from the recently interred paranormal mystic, Karl Raymar. The notorious 'Psychic-vampire' unleashes a foul-looking ambulatory arsenal of sickeningly decayed cadavers which sends the terrified girls ever deeper into this diabolically dark and doomy night!

'If she could just make it through her 'One Dark Night', shy, demure, Julie Wells would become a sister, but she's gonna have to be a real tough muther just to survive till morning!' - Weirdlingwolf.