The Midnight Hour, the Glossary
The Midnight Hour is a 1985 American made-for-television comedy horror film directed by Jack Bender and starring Shari Belafonte-Harper, LeVar Burton, Peter DeLuise, and Dedee Pfeiffer.[1]
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67 relations: ABC Signature, AllMovie, American Broadcasting Company, An American Werewolf in London, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Archenemy, Baby I'm Yours (Barbara Lewis song), Bad Moon Rising, Barbara Lewis, Black comedy, Bobby Vee, Brad Fiedel, British Film Institute, California, Capital Cities/ABC, Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things, Cindy Morgan, Clap for the Wolfman, Comedy horror, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Curse, Dedee Pfeiffer, Del Shannon, Devil or Angel, Dick Van Patten, Dread Central, DVD Verdict, Eastern Time Zone, Grease (film), Halloween, How Soon Is Now?, In the Midnight Hour, Jack Bender, Jonelle Allen, Jonna Lee (actress), Kevin McCarthy (actor), Kurtwood Smith, Lee Montgomery, Leonard Maltin, LeVar Burton, Li'l Red Riding Hood, Lifetime (TV network), List of films set around Halloween, Macaulay Culkin, Mama Told Me Not to Come, Michael Jackson, Night of the Living Dead, Out of print, Peter DeLuise, Peter Dendle, ... Expand index (17 more) »
- 1985 comedy horror films
- Films directed by Jack Bender
- Television about werewolves
ABC Signature
ABC Signature is an American television production studio and the flagship production arm of ABC, which is a subsidiary of Disney Television Studios, a sub-division of the Disney Entertainment business segment and division of The Walt Disney Company.
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AllMovie
AllMovie (previously All Movie Guide) is an online database with information about films, television programs, television series, and screen actors.
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American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company.
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An American Werewolf in London
An American Werewolf in London is a 1981 comedy horror film written and directed by John Landis. The Midnight Hour and an American Werewolf in London are 1980s monster movies, American comedy horror films and American werewolf films.
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Anchor Bay Entertainment
The revived Anchor Bay Entertainment is an American independent film production and distribution company owned by Umbrelic Entertainment co-founders Thomas Zambeck and Brian Katz.
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Archenemy
In literature, an archenemy (sometimes spelled as arch-enemy) or archnemesis is the main enemy of someone.
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Baby I'm Yours (Barbara Lewis song)
"Baby I'm Yours" is a song written by Van McCoy which was a hit in 1965 for Barbara Lewis, the original recording artist.
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Bad Moon Rising
"Bad Moon Rising" is a song written by John Fogerty and performed by Creedence Clearwater Revival.
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Barbara Lewis
Barbara Ann Lewis (born February 9, 1943) is an American singer and songwriter whose smooth style influenced rhythm and blues.
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Black comedy
Black comedy, also known as dark comedy, bleak comedy, morbid humor, gallows humor, black humor, or dark humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss.
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Bobby Vee
Robert Thomas Velline (April 30, 1943 – October 24, 2016), known professionally as Bobby Vee, was an American singer who was a teen idol in the early 1960s and also appeared in films.
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Brad Fiedel
Bradley Ira Fiedel (born August 10, 1951) is an American composer.
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British Film Institute
The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom.
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California
California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.
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Capital Cities/ABC
Capital Cities/ABC Inc. was an American media company.
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Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things
Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (also known as Revenge of the Living Dead, Things from the Dead, and Zreaks) is a 1972 comedy horror film directed by Bob Clark. The Midnight Hour and Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things are American comedy horror films.
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Cindy Morgan
Cynthia Ann Cichorski (September 29, 1954 – December 30, 2023), known professionally as Cindy Morgan, was an American actress best known for playing Lora/Yori in Tron and Lacey Underall in Caddyshack.
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Clap for the Wolfman
"Clap for the Wolfman" is a song written by Burton Cummings, Bill Wallace, and Kurt Winter performed by their band, the Guess Who.
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Comedy horror
Comedy horror, also known as horror comedy, is a literary, television, and film genre that combines elements of comedy and horror fiction.
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Creedence Clearwater Revival
Creedence Clearwater Revival, commonly abbreviated as CCR or simply Creedence, was an American rock band formed in El Cerrito, California.
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Curse
A curse (also called an imprecation, malediction, execration, malison, anathema, or commination) is any expressed wish that some form of adversity or misfortune will befall or attach to one or more persons, a place, or an object.
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Dedee Pfeiffer
Dorothy Diane "Dedee" Pfeiffer (born January 1, 1964) is an American actress.
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Del Shannon
Charles Weedon Westover (December 30, 1934 – February 8, 1990), better known by his stage name Del Shannon, was an American musician, singer and songwriter, best known for his 1961 number-one Billboard hit "Runaway".
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Devil or Angel
"Devil or Angel" is a song written by Blanche Carter and originally recorded by the Clovers in 1955, where it went to number four on the US R&B Best Sellers chart.
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Dick Van Patten
Richard Vincent Van Patten (December 9, 1928 – June 23, 2015) was an American actor, comedian, businessman, and animal welfare advocate, whose career spanned seven decades of television.
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Dread Central
Dread Central is an American website founded in 2006 that is dedicated to horror news, interviews, and reviews.
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DVD Verdict
DVD Verdict was a judicial-themed website for DVD reviews.
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Eastern Time Zone
The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico.
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Grease (film)
Grease is a 1978 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Randal Kleiser (in his feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Bronté Woodard and an adaptation by co-producer Allan Carr, based on the stage musical of the same name by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey.
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Halloween
Halloween or Hallowe'en (less commonly known as Allhalloween, All Hallows' Eve, or All Saints' Eve) is a celebration observed in many countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day.
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How Soon Is Now?
"How Soon Is Now?" is a song by English rock band the Smiths, written by singer Morrissey and guitarist Johnny Marr.
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In the Midnight Hour
"In the Midnight Hour" is a song originally performed by Wilson Pickett in 1965 and released on his 1965 album of the same name, also appearing on the 1966 album The Exciting Wilson Pickett.
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Jack Bender
Jack Bender (born September 25, 1949) is an American television and film director, television producer and actor best known for his work as a director on Lost, The Sopranos and Game of Thrones.
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Jonelle Allen
Jonelle R. Allen (born July 18, 1944) is an American actress, singer, and dancer.
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Jonna Lee (actress)
Jonna Lee (born November 6, 1963) is an American television and film actress.
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Kevin McCarthy (actor)
Kevin McCarthy (February 15, 1914 – September 11, 2010) was an American stage, film and television actor, remembered as the male lead in the horror science fiction film Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956).
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Kurtwood Smith
Kurtwood Larson Smith (born July 3, 1943) is an American actor.
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Lee Montgomery
Elliott Harcourt Montgomery (born November 3, 1961), known as Lee Montgomery, is a United States-based Canadian actor.
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Leonard Maltin
Leonard Michael Maltin (born December 18, 1950) is an American film critic, film historian, and author.
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LeVar Burton
Levardis Robert Martyn Burton Jr.
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Li'l Red Riding Hood
"Li'l Red Riding Hood" is a 1966 song performed by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs.
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Lifetime (TV network)
Lifetime is an American basic cable channel that is part of Lifetime Entertainment Services, a subsidiary of A&E Networks, which is jointly owned by Hearst Communications and The Walt Disney Company.
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List of films set around Halloween
This is a list of films set on or around Halloween.
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Macaulay Culkin
Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin (born Macaulay Carson Culkin) is an American actor and musician.
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Mama Told Me Not to Come
"Mama Told Me Not to Come", also written as "Mama Told Me (Not to Come)", is a song by American singer-songwriter Randy Newman written for Eric Burdon's first solo album in 1966.
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Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist.
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Night of the Living Dead
Night of the Living Dead is a 1968 American independent horror film directed, photographed, and edited by George A. Romero, written by Romero and John Russo, produced by Russell Streiner and Karl Hardman, and starring Duane Jones and Judith O'Dea.
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Out of print
An out-of-print (OOP) or out-of-commerce item or work is something that is no longer being published.
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Peter DeLuise
Peter John DeLuise (born November 6, 1966) is an American actor, television director, television producer, and screenwriter.
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Peter Dendle
Peter Dendle is a professor of English at Penn State Mont Alto, teaching classes on folklore, 20th and 21st century representations of the Middle Ages, Old and Middle English (language and literature), and the monstrous (in film, folklore, and society).
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Phil Phillips
John Philip Baptiste (March 14, 1926 – March 14, 2020), known as Phil Phillips, was an American singer and songwriter, best known for his 1959 song, "Sea of Love".
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Sam the Sham
Domingo Samudio (b. February 28, 1937 in Dallas, Texas, United States), better known by his stage name Sam the Sham, is a retired American rock and roll singer.
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Sea of Love (Phil Phillips song)
"Sea of Love" is a song written by John Philip Baptiste (better known as Phil Phillips) and George Khoury.
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Shari Belafonte
Shari Lynn Belafonte (born September 22, 1954) is an American actress, model and singer.
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Sheila Larken
Sheila Larken (born February 24, 1944) is an American television actress, best known for playing the role of Margaret Scully, the mother of Dana Scully, on The X-Files.
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Sorcery (goetia)
Goetia is a type of European sorcery, often referred to as witchcraft, that has been transmitted through grimoires—books containing instructions for performing magical practices.
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Television film
A television film, alternatively known as a television movie, made-for-TV film/movie, telefilm, telemovie or TV film/movie, is a feature-length film that is produced and originally distributed by or to a television network, in contrast to theatrical films made for initial showing in movie theaters, and direct-to-video films made for initial release on home video formats.
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The Des Moines Register
The Des Moines Register is the daily morning newspaper of Des Moines, Iowa, United States.
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The Guess Who
The Guess Who were a Canadian rock band formed in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1965.
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The San Bernardino Sun
The San Bernardino Sun is a paid daily newspaper in San Bernardino County, California, headquartered in the city of San Bernardino.
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The Smiths
The Smiths were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1982, composed of Morrissey (vocals), Johnny Marr (guitar), Andy Rourke (bass) and Mike Joyce (drums).
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The Tennessean
The Tennessean (known until 1972 as The Nashville Tennessean) is a daily newspaper in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Three Dog Night
Three Dog Night is an American rock band formed in 1967, founded by vocalists Chuck Negron, Cory Wells, and Danny Hutton.
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Thriller (song)
"Thriller" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Michael Jackson.
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Trimark Pictures
Trimark Pictures was an American production company that specialized in the production and distribution of television and home video motion pictures.
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Wilson Pickett
Wilson Pickett (March 18, 1941 – January 19, 2006) was an American singer and songwriter.
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Wolfman Jack
Robert Weston Smith (January 21, 1938July 1, 1995), known as Wolfman Jack, was an American disc jockey active for over three decades.
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See also
1985 comedy horror films
- Fracchia contro Dracula
- Future-Kill
- Ghoulies
- Hard Rock Zombies
- House (1985 film)
- Magic Lizard
- Mr. Vampire
- Once Bitten (1985 film)
- Re-Animator
- The Canterville Ghost (1985 film)
- The Midnight Hour
- The Return of the Living Dead
- The Stuff
- Those Merry Souls
- Transylvania 6-5000 (1985 film)
- Vampires in Havana
Films directed by Jack Bender
- Armed and Innocent
- Child's Play 3
- Deadly Messages
- Family Album (miniseries)
- Friends 'Til the End
- It Came from the Sky
- Killing Mr. Griffin (film)
- Sweet Dreams (1996 film)
- The Dreamer of Oz: The L. Frank Baum Story
- The Gambler (film series)
- The Lone Ranger (2003 film)
- The Midnight Hour
- The Tempest (1998 film)
Television about werewolves
- Angel (1999 TV series)
- Becoming Human
- Being Human (British TV series)
- Being Human (North American TV series)
- Big Wolf on Campus
- Bitten (TV series)
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (TV series)
- Dark Shadows
- Death Valley (TV series)
- Hemlock Grove (TV series)
- House of Frankenstein (miniseries)
- Hybrid (2007 film)
- Imortal
- La Luna Sangre
- Lobo (TV series)
- Lost Girl
- Monster Squad
- My Babysitter's a Vampire (TV series)
- Nightingales (British TV series)
- Os Mutantes: Caminhos do Coração
- Paranormal Witness
- Penny Dreadful (TV series)
- Shadowhunters
- She-Wolf of London (TV series)
- The Adventures of a Two-Minute Werewolf
- The Gates (TV series)
- The Haunting Hour: The Series
- The Midnight Hour
- The Nightmare Room
- The Order (TV series)
- The Originals (TV series)
- The Vampire Diaries
- Trapped! (TV series)
- True Blood
- Werewolf (TV series)
- Werewolf by Night (TV special)
- Wolf Lake
- Wolfblood
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Midnight_Hour
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