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The independent home media label Code Red released a Blu-ray edition of the film, the first 200 copies of which were made available for sale on February 8, 2019. The film was released on VHS in the 1980s, but has never received an official DVD release.
Linda Gross of the Los Angeles Times felt the film's direction was "stiff," but overall deemed it "scary, with gruesome, bloody effects." Home media Richard Labonté of the Ottawa Citizen was critical of the film, noting that "none of the stories is the least bit scary. Writing in The Shreveport Times, Joe Leydon deemed the film "sluggish in spots," concluding: "There is a great deal more atmosphere than sense to be found in Screams of a Winter Night." He also compared elements of the film to the 1945 British anthology film Dead of Night.
cities on July 13, 1979, including Atlanta, Seattle, and New Orleans. Excised scene Ī fourth story included in the original cut of the film was excised for its theatrical release this story featured two young men who are chased by a supernatural entity in a graveyard. Cherry III, a local resident of Shreveport. The special effects in the film were supplied by William T. It was distributed by Dimension Pictures. The film's producer, Mark Lovell, was a real estate agent with no background in filmmaking. Wilson had been inspired to direct the film based on the success of several other local filmmakers, such as Charles B. Screams of a Winter Night was shot on location in Natchitoches, Louisiana. Robin Bradley as Sally/Annie's roommate.In the woods at the edge of a precipice, the four survivors hear a growl approaching them. Cal, Lauri, Harper, and Jookie flee into the woods as the cabin collapses from the force of the wind, killing their friends. Suddenly, the wind shatters the living room window, and Elaine is killed by shards of glass. Fearing that the Shataba legend John told him might be true, Cal departs with his girlfriend, Lauri. The wind increasingly rattles the cabin, howling violently. Her boyfriend Harper tries to calm her, and the group contemplate whether they should leave. Jookie, horrified by Elaine's story, grows frantic. Later, in college, a withdrawn Annie brutally murders her dormitory roommate for wearing Annie's shawl without her permission. Annie claimed a madman had attacked her and her date, absolving her of public guilt, though she grew mentally unbalanced after the incident. The aloof Elaine decides to share a story that supposedly happened at her high school: It involves a timid woman named Annie who suffered a date rape attempt, in which she stabbed the attacker to death. John and Steve say they are going to town to purchase more oil for the lamps, and instead terrify Sally and Liz by posing in a grotesque gorilla mask int the kitchen window. Outside, a howling wind begins to increase in frequency. The three men were warned not to venture to the upper levels of the building, but ultimately did so while investigating a noise in the morning, the fraternity found the three men in a trance-like state, two of them bleeding, and the third driven mad.Īfter Steve's story, one of the women, Jookie, becomes unnerved and wishes to leave the cabin. Next, Steve tells the group the story of the "Green Light," in which three fraternity pledges were instructed to spent the night in a supposedly haunted, abandoned hotel. The following morning, the woman was found alive, with human teeth marks on her ankles.Īfter finishing the story, John shows Cal a newspaper clipping about a bizarre accident that happened at Lake Durand in the 1940s. Some time later, she heard scraping on the roof of the car, and discovered Roger hanging dead from a tree.
John tells the tale of the "Moss Point Man," a dwarf-like creature that terrorized a local couple on a date: After running out of gasoline on a country road, Roger left his girlfriend in the car while he walked toward a station. That night, the friends start a fire in the hearth and begin telling scary stories. Police surmised a gas explosion as the cause, though Native American locals believed that a powerful spirit called "Shataba," which roams the woods in winter, caused their deaths. John meanwhile shows Cal the nearby graves of the Durand family, who were mysteriously killed at the cabin, their bodies found scattered across the property. Elaine tells her boyfriend, Alan, that she wished they had not gone on the trip. Arriving at John's family's ramshackle cabin, the group begin to settle in. During winter, a college student named John drives nine of his friends for a weekend trip to Lake Durand.