Night of the Dark Full Moon
About Night of the Dark Full Moon
On Christmas Eve 1950, Wilfred Butler dies in a fire outside his mansion in East Willard, Massachusetts, and leaves the house to his grandson Jeffrey. Twenty years later Jeffrey sends lawyer John Carter to sell it. The house had been an asylum, and killings start in town. A diary says Wilfred fathered Jeffrey by his own daughter and, on Christmas Eve 1935, let the patients out. They killed her.
Cast & crew
More about Night of the Dark Full Moon
Theodore Gershuny directed it. Jeffrey Konvitz co-wrote it. Patrick O'Neal, Mary Woronov, James Patterson, Astrid Heeren, and John Carradine are billed. It was shot in Oyster Bay, New York, in November and December 1970. Cannon Films released it in November 1972 under the title Night of the Dark Full Moon. Later titles are Silent Night, Bloody Night and Death House. It runs 83 minutes.
Themes
Preservation
A circulating copy runs 1 hour 25 minutes 17 seconds.
Notes
- Warhol regulars Ondine, Candy Darling, and Susan Rothenberg appear in the flashbacks.
- The same picture was later sold as Silent Night, Bloody Night and as Death House.
- A timed copy runs 1 hour 25 minutes 17 seconds.
Scenes
- Wilfred burns outside the mansion on Christmas Eve 1950.
- The diary tells Jeffrey who his father was.