Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on violence and frights — not a wind-down.
The story
A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house.
- escape
- blackout
- siege
- revenge
- murder
- mental institution
- slasher
- maniac
- mental illness
- meat cleaver
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Jack Palance
Frank Hawkes
Donald Pleasence
Leo Bain
Martin Landau
Byron "Preacher" Sutcliff
Dwight Schultz
Dan Potter
- Erland van Lidth — Ronald "Fatty" Elster
- Deborah Hedwall — Nell Potter
- Lee Taylor-Allan — Toni Potter
- Phillip Clark — Tom Smith / Skaggs
- Elizabeth Ward — Lyla Potter
- Brent Jennings — Ray Curtis
- Gordon Watkins — Detective Burnett
- Carol Levy — Bunky
- Keith Reddin — Billy
- Annie Korzen — Marissa Hall
- Lin Shaye — Receptionist at Haven
- Directed
- Jack Sholder
- Written
- Michael Harrpster, Robert Shaye, Jack Sholder
Production
- Rating
- 5.8 / 10 · 167 ratings
- Studio
- Masada Productions, New Line Cinema
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
