# Hell Night (1981) Original First Video Release from Media Home Entertainment, Inc., Opening (Release Year: 1982)

"HELL NIGHT" Original First Released Video on VHS Format from Media Home Entertainment, Inc. (1982) "Pray for day." This was the opening to the very first home video release from icon Media Home Entertainment, Inc. (before Heron Communications Company's affiliation) in 1982 from Compass International Pictures "Rated-R" by the MPAA. The video company used the same exact version from Compass International Pictures' original film print (compare DVD and Blu-ray 4KTransfers) and had a countless number of reprints in 1984 and 1986. Before 1989, Media retired the reprints for the film and was soon acquired by Video Treasures recording the original film print with dull quality in the unusual LP (Long Play) Mode. However, the company continued to use the original theatrical poster with a screaming Blair (of "The Exorcist") on the cover trying to escape at the gates of the spiked fortress mansion with a fright of monstrous hands grabbing her from below. The independent film was unfortunately a flop at the Box Office due to it's competition with other cult horror films, but in the 1980s proved to be successful with repeated airings throughout the decade of the '80s on Cable Television (HBO and Cinemax; in the 1990s USA Network); also did fairly well on the Independent Television Stations such as WOR-TV's "Fright Night" Late Show and WOR-TV's "Four O'Clock Movie" Showcases. The story concerns four pledgees on Initiation Night (a.k.a. "Hell Night") into Alpha Sigma Rho Fraternity and…

- Kind: Film
- Year: 2021
- By: TV & Video Rewind
- Genres: Horror
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/hell-night-1982-media-final-use)
- Licence or status: [CC0 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader or archive marks it public domain, and nothing the site holds bears that out (its record gives no year, or a year from 1978 on, which no US term has left), so where it is free is not known. Unclear is not offered.