To All a Goodnight (1980)

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A murderer out for vengeance stalks the students of a finishing school.


Genre

Christmas

Horror, Slasher

Characters/Groups

Nancy - Jennifer Runyon

Alex - Forrest Swanson

Melody - Linda Gentile

T.J. - William Lauer

Leia - Judith Bridges

Mrs. Jensen - Katherine Herrington

Ralph - Buck West

Polansky - Sam Shamshak

Trisha - Angela Bath

Sam - Denise Stearns

Tom - Solomon Trager

Blake - Jeff Butts

Jim - Bill Martins

Dan - Jay Rasumny

Pilot - Dan Stryker

Mr. Ronsoni - Judy Hess

Mrs. Jensen's Daughter - Carrie Cobb

Cynthia - Lisa Labowskie

Irate Father - Harry Sethe

Sincere Mother - Vivienne Kove

Clenet Driver - Alain Clenet

Girl with Cat - Dori Tressler

Pilot - Michael George

School Girls - Jamie Nielsen, Lori Eiseman, Jennifer Howard, Cathy Hicky, Mary Hicky, Cathy Fisher, Toby Sternlieb, Mary Wagner, Ann Tucker, Virginia Quiria, Justin Zachary, Robin Theriault, Robin Olsen, Donald Kinn, Linda Mersman, Jane Osborn

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Detailed Synopsis

At the Calvin Finishing School for girls during Christmas vacation two years ago, a group of girls are chasing Mrs. Jensen's Daughter. They chase her onto the balcony and she falls from it to her death.

Christmas vacation presently, a majority of the School Girls are leaving for Christmas vacation, however some are staying including Nancy (To All a Goodnight)|Nancy, Melody, Leia, Trisha, Sam (To All a Goodnight)|Sam and Cynthia (To All a Goonight)|Cynthia. An Irate Father yells at Sincere Mother who is telling their daughter she has to change her behavior. Nancy gives her cat to Girl with Cat to watch over vacation. Trisha asks two of the School Girls that are leaving to bring back some men. While leaving, Clenet Driver says bye to Leia. Someone walks into a room with a framed photo of Mrs. Jensen's Daughter on a desk and a list of names written on it. A hand then takes a red marker and crosses out the names. Mrs. Jensen tells the girls that Mrs. Calvin will be gone for the weekend. Leia tells the others that T.J will be coming with two his friends. Mrs. Jensen walks back in with pie and asks where Cynthia is and Leia tells her Cynthia wasn't feeling well and went to bed. Paul? calls out to Cynthia and tells her to hurry up. As Paul? is waiting, he is stabbed in the chest by someone wearing a Santa suit and killed. Cynthia walks outside and is stabbed in the chest and killed. As Leia is getting a sedative from her room, Ralph (To All a Goodnight)|Ralph opens the door and tells her Mrs. Calvin told him to water the plants while she was gone. Mr. Ronsoni stops by with a cannoli and tells Mrs. Jensen that the doctors will have to perform a bypass on her. Leia runs in and tells Mrs. Jensen that her and the others have decided to do all of the cleaning up so she can go to bed. Mr. Ronsoni calls Ralph creepy as he walks away and then calls the students rich bitches. As Leia is leaving she purposefully mispronounces Mr. Ronsoni's name. Leia tells Nancy she has to be the one to give Mrs. Jensen the milk spiked with the sedative. Mr. Ronsoni leaves after telling Mrs. Jensen she should do more with her life. Nancy gives Mrs. Jensen the milk. Pilot 1 (To All a Goodnight)|Pilot lands the plane and Leia and the others go out to meet them. T.J., Alex (To All a Goodnight)|Alex, Tom (To All a Goodnight)|Tom and Blake (To All a Goodnight)|Blake get out of the plane and pair off with the different women. Leia tells T.J. that the Pilot can come with them, but T.J. says he has no room for him. Tom starts playing the guitar and singing. Someone in a Santa suit grabs a pair of garden shears and sharpens them. As Alex is rambling on about science facts, tells him he is boring everyone. Trisha goes to get beer and has her throat slashed by the person in the Santa costume. Ralph sees Nancy and tells her she should be in bed and to lock her door tonight as the devil is there tonight. Tom goes to look for Trisha and finds her dead. The person in the Santa suit attacks him and then kills Tom by slamming a large rock onto his head. The person in the Santa suit then buries Trisha and Tom. As Nancy and Leia are going to get some beer and milk, they see a blood stain by the fridge, but think Ralph cut himself. Nancy hears Sam and Blake having sex and then watches them for a few seconds before walking away. As Sam and Blake are having sex someone shoots Blake through the head with a crossbow bolt, and then cuts off Sam's head. Ralph goes into Nancy's room and tells her something is wrong and she must pray and hands her a bible. The person in the Santa suit then buries the bodies of Sam and Blake, but takes Sam's head in a pail. Melody walks into her room wearing a bikini and figures out Alex is a virgin and then they have sex. The next morning, T.J. tells Mrs. Jensen that his plane needs to be repaired and then he and Alex will leave. Nancy goes to look for Trisha and Sam, but doesn't find them. Alex scares Nancy and then tells her she is cute. As he is chasing her, Nancy falls on the dead body of Ralph. Polansky arrives with Jim (To All a Goodnight)|Jim and Dan (To All a Goodnight)|Dan to investigate the murder. Polansky tells them he is going to leave Jim and Dan to watch the place and that everyone is to stay indoors. Nancy tells Polansky about what Ralph had told her.