HELL NIGHT

During “Hell Night,” four college pledges—Marti, Jeff, Seth, and Denise—are locked inside the abandoned Garth Manor as part of their fraternity and sorority initiation. Legend says the mansion’s owner, Raymond Garth, murdered his family twelve years earlier, leaving only his youngest, Andrew, unaccounted for. The students are told the gates won’t reopen until dawn.

While the pledges settle in, fraternity president Peter and two friends—Scott and May—sneak back to the property to scare them. Their prank goes wrong when May is dragged into an underground tunnel and killed by a deformed man believed to be Andrew Garth. The others assume she’s still pranking them.

Inside, more staged scares occur, but the group soon realizes someone else is in the house. Scott is murdered on the roof, and Peter is chased into the hedge maze and killed. Denise is taken next, leaving Seth to discover her disappearance and May’s severed head. Panicked, he escapes over the gate and runs for help.

Jeff and Marti search the manor, finding Scott’s body and signs of a real killer. Jeff arms himself with a pitchfork and discovers Peter’s corpse in the maze, unaware the gate keys are still in Peter’s hand. Meanwhile, Seth fails to convince the police—who are overwhelmed with Hell Night pranks—but steals a rifle and a car to return.

Back at the manor, Jeff and Marti are attacked by a deformed man hiding under a rug. They chase him through a trap door into the tunnels, where they find Denise’s body arranged at a grotesque dining table. The killer pursues them up a stairwell, injuring Jeff, but they manage to barricade themselves.

Seth arrives and confronts the killer near the garden, shooting him and knocking him into a pond. Believing he has killed Andrew Garth, Seth rushes inside—only to be dragged away by a second surviving Garth brother. A gunshot rings out, and Seth’s rifle is thrown into the hall.

Marti retrieves the weapon but is attacked by the second mutant. She escapes, helps Jeff flee to a bedroom, and climbs out onto the roof. The killer throws Jeff to his death, forcing Marti to run. She finds Peter’s body, retrieves the gate keys, and reaches Seth’s stolen car. After getting it started, she crashes backward into the gate to break it down.

The killer jumps onto the car, smashing the windshield, but Marti drives forward into the fallen gate, impaling him on its spikes. As dawn breaks, she walks away—the sole survivor of Hell Night.

The survivors confront the true threat within Garth Manor, battling for their lives as the slasher’s identity and fate are revealed.

Hell Night concludes with a classic slasher showdown, pitting the resourcefulness of the survivors against the monstrous legacy of the Garth family. The ending reinforces the 'final girl' trope, while the mansion’s secrets are brought violently to light, leaving few unscathed and cementing the film’s status within the slasher canon.