The Midnight Hour

It is Halloween in the small town of Pitchford Cove, Massachusetts, and five high school friends, Phil (Montgomery), Mary (Pfeiffer), Mitch (DeLuise), Vinnie (Burton), and Melissa (Belafonte), plan on making it a night they will never forget. They steal outfits from the town's witchcraft museum and come upon other old artifacts, including a trunk holding a paper scroll which contains an ancient curse. When the latent sorceress Melissa recites the curse at the local cemetery, things take a turn for the worse. The town's dead, led by Melissa's great-great-great-great-grandmother Lucinda Cavender (Allen), a witch who was put to death 300 years earlier, rise up from their graves and roam the town. While Melissa, Mitch, Vinnie, and Mary enjoy themselves at their annual Halloween costume party, Phil encounters a mysterious girl, named Sandra "Sandy" Matthews (Lee), dressed in a 1950s cheerleader outfit, who warns him that the whole town is in danger. Lucinda and the various undead crash the costume party. At first, nobody understands what's happening – since everyone is in costume –, until Lucinda begins turning the party guests into vampires, starting with Melissa (her bloodline). When Sandy discovers that Phil and his friends recited the ancient spell in the cemetery, she decides to team up with him in order to break the curse. The only way to set things right is to retrieve the Grenville Spirit Ring as well as the remains of Lucinda's archenemy, witch-hunter Nathaniel Grenville, who was, incidentally, Phil's great-great-great-great-grandfather. Phil and Sandy must restore the town to normal by midnight or the curse becomes permanent. The local police do not take Phil and Sandy's warning seriously, so Phil obtains his family hunting rifle and melts down his father's coin collection to make silver bullets, an effective tool to fight the undead for the time being. They return to the Halloween party, discovering that everyone has been turned into undead creatures. Phil manages to get the Grenville Spirit Ring from a zombified Mitch, subsequently driving himself and Sandy to the cemetery. They break into Grenville's crypt and exhume his remains, just as Lucinda and the horde of undead launch an attack. Cornered in the car, Phil seals the scroll's seam with the bone dust infused candle wax, validating the ritual with the ring's signet. With the crisis averted, Sandy tells Phil she loves him, and she, along with every creature resurrected on that night, vanishes. The wounds that Phil sustained disappear and the damage to his car is undone—as if the entire event had never happened. Phil identifies Sandy's grave and understands that she had been one of the undead too. As the clock strikes midnight, Phil begins to drive back to town, and he listens to a song dedication on the radio from someone identifying themself as "Sandy", implying that she will always be looking after him even from beyond the grave.