24 Days of HorrorXmas- To All A Goodnight (1980)

I will be posting Christmas themed horror films over the next 24 days, for the tenth night I am listing the 1980 slasher horror film To All A Goodnight.

To All A Goodnight (1980)

Dir- David Hess

A by the book revenge slasher that follows the formula of previous horror films with this one set at a finishing school for upper-class girls. A prank goes wrong, and a student is killed in an accident, two years later as students are leaving for Christmas Break, a group of five girls is staying behind with their house mother and caretaker. The girls have invited some boys to keep them company but someone else arrives, and bodies begin to pile up. To All A Good Night is so cliched that one could play a drinking game with all the slasher movie tropes the film borrows from films like Black Christmas and Bay of Blood. You have the all too obvious Final Girl who is attractive but forced to dress down, the horny students who are the first to go, a creepy caretaker who may be a red herring and the revenge-driven killer whose identity is all too obvious. The film also suffers from poor lighting that makes the film trying to watch for some scenes. The cast is largely unknown except for actress Jennifer Runyon who would appear in Ghostbusters, Up The Creek and Charle's in Charge.