Girls Nite Out

Girls Nite Out

Year: 1982

Runtime: 96 mins

Language: English

Director: Robert Deubel

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The DeWitt University students gear up for an all‑night scavenger hunt, eager for a night of fun and camaraderie. As they venture deeper into the campus, the game takes a dark turn: they discover they are the prey, pursued by a mysterious huntress. Only a handful manage to escape.

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Timeline & Setting – Girls Nite Out (1982)

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Time period

Location

Weston Hills Sanitarium, DeWitt University, campus diner

Weston Hills Sanitarium sits in rural Ohio and is the quiet setting where a patient’s death sparks fear. Nearby, DeWitt University provides the college backdrop for the scavenger hunt, the party, and the ensuing terror among female students. The campus diner and surrounding dorms become the social hub where friendships, rivalries, and danger collide as the body count rises.

🏥 Sanitarium 🎓 University 🗺️ Rural Ohio

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Main Characters – Girls Nite Out (1982)

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Lynn Connors (Julia Montgomery)

A DeWitt University student involved in the campus scavenger hunt. She navigates social tensions, including jealousy over Teddy’s attention to Dawn, and becomes entangled in the escalating danger as the killer stalks female students.

🎭 Drama 💔 Jealousy 🏃 Survival

Teddy Ratliff (James Carroll)

A popular basketball star and Lynn’s boyfriend, whose affair with Dawn adds to campus tension. He shares a central social circle with the other students and becomes a potential target as the body count climbs.

🎭 Drama 💔 Jealousy 🏃 Survival

Dawn Sorenson (Suzanne Barnes)

Dawn is involved in a love triangle with Teddy and others, contributing to the web of jealousy and secrets on campus. She experiences conflict and danger as the killer’s hunt encroaches on the party landscape.

🎭 Drama 💔 Jealousy 🧭 Secret

Jane (Laura Summer)

A student who enters the locker room and is brutally slain, her throat slashed in a moment of shocking vulnerability. Her death marks one of the first brutal killings in the sequence.

🎭 Drama 💔 Violence 🧭 Fear

Kathy (Carrick Glenn)

Discovers Jane’s body and attempts to flee before falling victim to the killer’s blade. Her fate underscores the danger spiraling through the campus.

🎭 Drama 💔 Jealousy 🏃 Survival

Sheila Robinson (Lauren-Marie Taylor)

A student who searches for an item by the pond and encounters the killer in the bear-costumed disguise, meeting a brutal end.

🎭 Drama 💔 Fear 🐻 Survival

Leslie Peterson (Lois Robbins)

Lynn’s friend who joins the scavenger hunt and is murdered in the attic, accelerating the sense of danger and driving the investigation.

🎭 Drama 💔 Tragedy 🕯️ Mystery

Jim MacVey (Hal Holbrook)

Campus security officer and father of Patty, who investigates the clues, tracks the killer by phone and radio, and confronts the killer in the cafeteria.

🎭 Drama 🕵️ Investigation 🧭 Duty

Barney / Katie Cavanaugh (Rutanya Alda)

The killer revealed to be Katie Cavanaugh, Barney in disguise, who suffers from dissociative identity disorder. The dual personas drive the shocking climax as the killer confronts the investigator with the frozen body of Dickie.

🎭 Drama 🧠 Mental illness 🗡️ Violence

Mike Pryor (David Holbrook)

A misfit student involved in campus conflicts; he is questioned by campus security as the investigation tightens around the pool of suspects.

🎭 Drama 🧩 Mystery 💬 Gossip

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Major Themes – Girls Nite Out (1982)

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🔪 Violence against women

The plot follows a spree of brutal killings targeting female students, with a bear-costumed killer slashing victims in public spaces. The horror unfolds within a campus setting that should be safe, turning familiar routines into dangerous encounters. The fear is amplified by the killer’s chilling calls to the campus radio and the eerie atmosphere of night-time hunts.

🧠 Dissociative identity

The killer is revealed to have multiple personas, culminating in a twist where Katie Cavanaugh and Barney are shown as separate identities. This revelation reframes motive and accountability, showing a single perpetrator capable of wearing different masks. The twist underscores how a hidden psyche can drive horrific actions within a close-knit community.

🏫 Campus horror

A campus tradition—a late-night scavenger hunt—becomes a deadly obstacle course that forces students to navigate dorms, showers, and abandoned spaces. The setting blends ordinary college life with sudden, shocking violence, creating a sense of creeping dread. The social fabric of campus life is tested as everyone becomes a suspect.

💔 Jealousy and relationships

Romantic entanglements and jealousy fuel the tension among Lynn, Teddy, and Dawn, providing a human motive that complicates the mystery. The toxic dynamics feed the killer’s opportunities and erode trust within the student body. As romances strain, the line between passion and peril becomes dangerously thin.

Last Updated: October 04, 2025 at 12:48

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