Films about midnight

As we count down the remaining days and hours to 2022, a cinematic tour through ten motion pictures when midnight has special meaning.

Since Midnight Mass is celebrated on the evening when Christmas Eve gives way to Christmas Day, it makes sense that the hour is not associated with evil or supernatural goings on – except, that is, for St George’s Eve.

In Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), Jonathan Harker is warned: ‘It is the eve of St. George’s Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?’

In the US, ‘Midnight Movies’ (B-pictures and exploitation flicks) were traditionally programmed late night in roadshows and more offbeat venues but by the end of the 1980s the practice had effectively ended, although there have been revivals.

Quentin Tarantino has hosted midnight showings of his favourite cult movies at his New Beverly Cinema and paid tribute to the genre with 2007’s so-so Grindhouse double feature with Robert Rodriguez.
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