Best movie of this year hands down!

That was an excellent one.

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Another year, another holiday-themed horror movie! Watching my annual holiday horror flick on Christmas day is my second favorite tradition, next to getting drunk on Jägermeister and argue with my siblings! This year I found in my Christmas stocking a movie that I've wanted to see for a long time, even though I always knew not to expect too much from it. "To All a Goodnight" holds quite a bit of cult-value, but that's almost solely linked to the fact that it is the one and only film directed by David Hess; the legendary infamous lead actor of exploitation classics such as "Autostop Rosso Sangre", "House on the Edge of the Park" and – particularly – "Last House on the Left". I don't know why Mr. Hess suddenly thought it would be a good idea to contribute something to the genre as a director, especially because his "To All a Goodnight" is extremely formulaic, dull and forgettable. You know the routine: a group of girls that don't return to their families for the Christmas period remain at their finishing school, sedate the landlady with sleeping pills and invite their horny boyfriends over for a wild night of jingle bells. Unfortunately for them, there's a maniacal killer dressed in a Santa Clause suit running loose on the premises. Could his rage perhaps have something to do with the fatal accident that occurred in the same finishing school one year earlier, when a poor young girl fell to her death during an initiation prank gone awry? My guess is yes… Working from a script from Alex "The Incredibly Melting Man" Rebar, Hess isn't too shy to insert literally every single slasher cliché that exists. The sorority setting and payback for a deadly prank are two examples of this, but also the presence of a suspicious and perverted looking gardener who always pops op out of nowhere, the surviving virgins and the dead phone lines are terribly overused clichés. Of course, on the other hand we also have to bear in mind that "To All a Goodnight" was released in 1980 already, and thus prior to the enormous slasher boom later that decade. Still, even for a low-budgeted film, the killings are disappointingly uninspired and bloodless. Due to the poor and dark photography, the murders are often even impossible to see! The final twist, as in the revelation of the killer's identity, is fairly obvious from early in the film, and it's not even that difficult to foresee who will survive the Christmas massacre. There isn't much to mention regarding the cast, neither, except maybe that one-time actress Linda Gentille has a ravishing body and that porn king Harry Reems ("Deep Throat", "Educating Mandy") makes a bizarrely insignificant cameo appearance as a private airplane pilot.

as a big fan of horror films i do not like this film it could have been so good but sadly there were stuff in the film that just ruined the whole movieso 2 years ago a college girl was killed at her sorority house now we are in the present time 1980 and some of the girls Shy Nancy Pretty Melody funny Leia Sam Trisha Cynthiaalso we have their boyfriendsNerdy Alex T.J Tom BlakeCynthia gets stabbed to death walking outside to see her boyfriend Trisha has her throat slice while getting beer from the fridge Tom gets killed the next morning while searching for Trisha Blake gets shot in the head with a crospo while having sex with Sam Sam gets decapitated while having sex with Blakethe next day we are just down to Nancy, melody, Leia, Alex, and T.J all of whom seem to care less that half of their friends are missing ??????Nancy goes out for a walk by herself and find Ralph the creepy handyman of the sorority dead the group yet again seems to care less about it Leia decides to make out with the cop Melody and T.J decide to make out with each other Nancy and Alex decide to make out with each otherLeia goes to take a shower and finds Sam head in the shower and the cop dead to who has a knife in his back the killer appears right next to Leia what's gonna happen the world may never knowT.J and Melody are making out with T.J gets hanged with what appears to be a wire around his neckMelody runs away and bumps into Nancy and Alex who also find Sam's head in the showerLeia apparently is still alive but now she's dancing around and singing like she's on drugs or something Nancy and Melody run downstairs and find a Santa killer downstairs who is indeed ms.Jensen who is upset because her daughter was the one killed in the beginning of the film 2 years agoMelody runs outside to find the pilot to the airplane in which the boys arrived by while trying to start the plane the killer starts the helicopter propeller for them causing both to get brutally killedNancy knocks ms.Jensen off the balcony killing her but apparently there is a 2nd killer of the detectives who is ms.Jensen husband he tries to kill Nancy but Alex shoots him killing himAlex and Nancy run off while Leia continues to dance and sing like an idiot the endi don't like this film the main problem is the quality it is so dark at many parts of movie that you can barely ( if not ) see anything going on also it is very hard to hear what the characters say a lotThe killings are all really good but you don't really get to see them happeningalso half the group goes missing and the other don't seem to care even when the find the dead body of the handyman which does not make any sense to mealso there is very little detail in the movie like what did the killer do to Leia???? i don't like this film it could have been really good but there were so many things wrong with this movie so i don't like this movie at all

The idea of a killer dressed as Santa Claus attacking a group of young people at a sorority house sounds great to a horror fan like myself! Which is why I was so excited to this the other day. Unfortunately, 'To All A Goodnight' was a major disappointment. It had so much potential, but with so many flaws to me this is a below average slasher film that I wouldn't care to see again.The movie begins with a girl accidentally falling to her death during a prank/initiation. Flash forward two years, this time with a group of new girls who are staying at the sorority house over Christmas. They invite a bunch of boys over to spend the holidays with them which of course was added just to increase the body count. Eventually, a killer dressed as Santa kills a few people and one of the body is discovered the next morning. A cop comes to the house and tells them to stay and lock up for the night (not sure why they listened, I would have gotten the hell out). Anyways, a few more murders happen that evening leading to the killer's revelation.There are so many things wrong with the movie. The main group of characters are so annoying and make it hard to get through the film at times. The dialogue and acting are so bad, it just makes most scenes seem awkward. Plus, it's Christmas. Where is the snow? I feel that the movie could have been much more moody and creepier with a snowstorm outside or something. And why would they stay at the house an entire day after finding a bloody corpse. It makes no sense. Also, the lighting is pretty bad so don't expect to see everything clearly, including some of the kills. The killers identity was sort of obvious to me anyways, but there is a second twist which came out of nowhere for me. It felt rushed and fell flat. 'To All A Goodnight' has it's moments, like a helicopter propeller kill and making one of the characters go completely insane after finding a decapitated head in the shower. But after I had so much anticipation in seeing this, I felt that it wasn't a very good movie and could have been so much better.4/10

This Christmas, avoid if you're smart It's a bad one you'll say, Let's make no delay, This year, to save you from fear, I'm reviewing a title unspecial.To All a Good Night is probably the rarest Christmas revenge Slasher from the 1980's. Wow, what a treat! It manages to drop the audience straight into the action with barely a minute's worth of back-story. As if you've woken up in a field with a concussion and no recollection of the events that precluded your dilemma. During Christmas break, at Calvin Finishing School for Girls (what the hell is a Finishing School?), a soon-to-be sorority sister is accidentally murdered during the onset of typical college hijinks. Fast forward 2 years to the present time; the girls are prepping for the upcoming holiday break – only this time, a knife-wielding lunatic donning a Santa suit and plastic mask is on the prowl.To reference my introductory statement in this review, this film manages to shotgun the audience straight into the killing grounds. How about some back-story? Nah. Perhaps a bit of a story arc so the suspense builds some substantialness? Nope. To All a Good Night just whiplashes you straight into the premise and says "forget all of that" and ignores your pleas for a bit of reasonable pacing in its hurried execution. I suppose we could agree that getting to the chewy center is a good thing; how many times have we witnessed Slasher films that came chock-full of filler that was completely unnecessary? It's a tall order to request a balance of both worlds with so many films shoved carelessly into the Slasher sub-genre. The film quality is dodgy – there's no denying it. The lighting is so poor you can barely make out what's happening in the outdoor segments, most notably those filmed by moonlight. It matters not in the end, however, because the film in its entirety barely manages to showcase a level of competency as it is. This is a rank amateur piece of celluloid. The players in this production must've needed an additional paycheck, going a step further to ruin a screenplay that was phished out of a sewer to begin with. To its credit, by 1980, Slashers weren't completely overdone and outplayed, so there's really no excuse – probably the only thing it has going for it is that it seems to be one of the first films of the 80's to feature a killer Santa, sharing a spot next to Christmas Evil, also released in the same year and equally as awful. What's a Slasher film without a twist ending, right? It's all here. The stereotypes, the clichés, the ending spelled out right from the beginning with a bit of a twist tacked on for good measure. The director, David Hess, is more experienced in the realm of acting than directing and we can see the results. Hess even gave himself a role in this Christmas feature, albeit uncredited; taking a part in the film's shocking, or as it were, less than shocking, conclusion. Stick to acting, David.If I were in the position of a casual fan, I'd want an experienced fanatic to warn me wholeheartedly about the impending doom that To All a Good Night brings to the campus. I am, for that purpose, the individual sought after; here to remind you that Christmas is for eggnog, gingerbread men, and Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer – certainly not a sludge-inhabiting, D-rated feature wispier than an untamed plume of hair.