"One Dark Night" was originally released theatrically world wide in 1983. It was completed for roughly $850,000. I didn't know then, or now, just how much money the film actually earned. After the last published figures of around two point five million, the numbers suddenly vanished from the trades faster than you can say, "Where's my share of the profits?"

This was Tom McLoughlin's and my first theatrical feature and we were much more focused on the mechanics of making it than we were about profiting from our efforts as a result of it.  A lot has changed in the past couple of decades.  Computer imaging alone has completely transformed the way in which movies are made.  Whatever the writer can imagine can now be crafted onto film.

When we made "One Dark Night", the melting of Raymar's face with a 900 watt hair dryer was about as sophisticated as the effects got.  We did it the old fashioned way -- digging up worms, harvesting maggots, grilling chicken livers and combining them with a generous portion of peanut butter, jelly, and pus.

The story was conceived while Tom and I were working on Disney's mega budgeted space epic "The Black Hole".  During lunch breaks we would discuss ideas for a horror film we had always talked about doing together.

"One Dark Night"

"One Dark Night"

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