Heart of Midnight is an American thriller film written and directed by Matthew Chapman and starring Jennifer Jason Leigh.

She has just inherited "Midnight", a defunct nightclub in a now seedy neighborhood, from her mysterious Uncle Fletcher (Sam Schacht).

Against the advice of her mother Betty (Brenda Vaccaro) to simply sell the property, Carol not only commits to reopening the club, but moves in as well.

As Carol settles in, she discovers oddly designed rooms and whole sections of the building, soon realizing that the club was a brothel, catering to clients with sexually perverted tendencies.

Searching, they find two boys hiding in a space in the club, but narrowly miss discovering the corpse of Lieutenant Sharpe.

"[3] Vincent Canby of The New York Times stated that "the dialogue is clumsy and the suspense is nil" and gave his reason for this by explaining that Carol is a "young woman who may or may not be crazy.

"[5] Hal Hinson of The Washington Post noted that the storytelling is "haute macabre and hopelessly silly" but, at the same time, admits that "Leigh is a marvel.