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Midnight is a 1982 horror exploitation film directed by John Russo based on his book of the same name. The film follows a young woman who runs away from her sexually abusive stepfather and ends up riding with two young men in rural Pennsylvania. Unbeknownst to them, they end up at the mercy of a satanic backwoods cult.
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Midnight is a 1982 [[ExploitationFilm horror exploitation exploitation]] film directed by John Russo based on [[TheFilmOfTheBook his book of the same name. name]]. The film follows a young woman named Nancy who runs away from her sexually abusive stepfather and ends up riding with two young men in rural Pennsylvania. Unbeknownst to them, they end up at the mercy of a satanic backwoods cult.cult.
!! Tropes in ''Midnight'':
*AFeteWorsethanDeath: The ritual sacrifices in the movie are carried out specifically on Easter Sunday.
*BearTrap: The opening scene shows a young girl crying out with her leg in a bear trap.
*BigScrewedUpFamily: The main antagonists of the movie are a family of murderous satanists.
*BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler:The first character to die is Reverend Carrington who is black. The next to die in order are Sandra Carrington and then Hank who is also black (though his death is later in the movie).]]
*BloodMagic: The women's throats are slit and their blood is poured into a goblet [[spoiler:in order for the family to feed to their mother's corpse in an attempt to resurrect her.]]
*{{Confessional}}: The introduction of Nancy shows her confessing to a priest about having premarital sex with her boyfriend.
*DeadGuyOnDisplay: [[spoiler:The mother.]]
*DeadlyBath: Technically. [[spoiler: The Reverend's daughter, Sandra,]] is killed in [[spoiler:her]] bathtub but [[spoiler:she]] wasn't bathing there to begin with and was instead, dropped in (and then murdered).
*DeadlyRoadTrip: Nancy hitches a ride with Hank and Tom in a road trip that doesn't exactly end well.
*{{Dehumanization}}: The women kidnapped by the family are put in cages and treated like animals.
*DontGoInTheWoods: "Lord have mercy if you decide to camp out around here! Didn't you hear me say that some people have been murdered?"
*FieryCoverUp: The dead bodies are put in a pile and then set on fire.
*ForcedToWatch: A woman is forced to watch her [[AmbiguouslyRelated ambiguous relative]] get stabbed to death in front of her.
*HillbillyHorrors: The centerpiece of the film naturally being the murderous backwoods family.
*HollywoodSatanism: A classic example complete with painted on forehead pentagrams, sacrifices of virgin women, and cult-ish black hooded cloaks.
*HumanSacrifice: Those humans are indeed sacrificed. Additionally VirginSacrifice is mentioned in passing but it's treated more as a bonus rather than a requirement.
*ProductPlacement: A quick one but there is a closeup shot of Hank drinking a Dr.Pepper.
*ReligionOfEvil: Certainly evil if it requires the blood of dead virgins.
*SlashedThroat: The family's modus operandi in the context of sacrifice.
*StalkerShot: When Cyrus [[spoiler: finds the Reverend in the graveyard]] and when Luke and Abraham are looking for potential victims.
*TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether: The whole family gets in on it! [[MummiesattheDinnerTable Even Dear ol' Mom!]]
*TheKillerBecomesTheKilled:[[spoiler:(Rather ''killers'') Every single character except for Nancy is killed by the end of the film.]]
!! Tropes in ''Midnight'':
*AFeteWorsethanDeath: The ritual sacrifices in the movie are carried out specifically on Easter Sunday.
*BearTrap: The opening scene shows a young girl crying out with her leg in a bear trap.
*BigScrewedUpFamily: The main antagonists of the movie are a family of murderous satanists.
*BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler:The first character to die is Reverend Carrington who is black. The next to die in order are Sandra Carrington and then Hank who is also black (though his death is later in the movie).]]
*BloodMagic: The women's throats are slit and their blood is poured into a goblet [[spoiler:in order for the family to feed to their mother's corpse in an attempt to resurrect her.]]
*{{Confessional}}: The introduction of Nancy shows her confessing to a priest about having premarital sex with her boyfriend.
*DeadGuyOnDisplay: [[spoiler:The mother.]]
*DeadlyBath: Technically. [[spoiler: The Reverend's daughter, Sandra,]] is killed in [[spoiler:her]] bathtub but [[spoiler:she]] wasn't bathing there to begin with and was instead, dropped in (and then murdered).
*DeadlyRoadTrip: Nancy hitches a ride with Hank and Tom in a road trip that doesn't exactly end well.
*{{Dehumanization}}: The women kidnapped by the family are put in cages and treated like animals.
*DontGoInTheWoods: "Lord have mercy if you decide to camp out around here! Didn't you hear me say that some people have been murdered?"
*FieryCoverUp: The dead bodies are put in a pile and then set on fire.
*ForcedToWatch: A woman is forced to watch her [[AmbiguouslyRelated ambiguous relative]] get stabbed to death in front of her.
*HillbillyHorrors: The centerpiece of the film naturally being the murderous backwoods family.
*HollywoodSatanism: A classic example complete with painted on forehead pentagrams, sacrifices of virgin women, and cult-ish black hooded cloaks.
*HumanSacrifice: Those humans are indeed sacrificed. Additionally VirginSacrifice is mentioned in passing but it's treated more as a bonus rather than a requirement.
*ProductPlacement: A quick one but there is a closeup shot of Hank drinking a Dr.Pepper.
*ReligionOfEvil: Certainly evil if it requires the blood of dead virgins.
*SlashedThroat: The family's modus operandi in the context of sacrifice.
*StalkerShot: When Cyrus [[spoiler: finds the Reverend in the graveyard]] and when Luke and Abraham are looking for potential victims.
*TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether: The whole family gets in on it! [[MummiesattheDinnerTable Even Dear ol' Mom!]]
*TheKillerBecomesTheKilled:[[spoiler:(Rather ''killers'') Every single character except for Nancy is killed by the end of the film.]]
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Midnight is a 1982 horror exploitation film directed by John Russo based on his book of the same name. The film follows a young woman who runs away from her sexually abusive stepfather and ends up riding with two young men in rural Pennsylvania. Unbeknownst to them, they end up at the mercy of a satanic backwoods cult.
Midnight is a 1982 horror exploitation film directed by John Russo based on his book of the same name. The film follows a young woman who runs away from her sexually abusive stepfather and ends up riding with two young men in rural Pennsylvania. Unbeknownst to them, they end up at the mercy of a satanic backwoods cult.
