Violent Midnight is a 1963 American exploitation slasher film[4] directed by Richard Hilliard and starring Lee Philips, Shepperd Strudwick, and Jean Hale.

Dolores leaves with Elliot, and in private she professes her love for him, recalling a previous sexual encounter they had six months prior.

Meanwhile, police Lieutenant Palmer begins investigating Dolores's murder, questioning Elliot as well as Charlie, who is employed at the college as a handyman.

Later, while Charlie is working at the college, a female student, Alice St. Clair, makes sexual advances toward him, and the two have sex in a closet.

Elliot returns home and receives a phone call from Carol, but it is cut short when he is taken hostage by Adrian and his brutish chauffeur, Max, who are attempting to escort him to a mental institution.

[3] Additional reshoots of sex scenes between James Farentino and Lorraine Rogers's characters was completed after principal photography and edited into the final cut.

In some U.S. cities, such as Salina, Kansas, projectionists manually cut footage from the film which contained nudity, particularly that of Kaye Elhardt.

"[9] Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times criticized the film for focusing more on the female students of the women's college than on Phillips's character of Elliot, as well as for its "awkward editing, poor sound and distracting music.

"[10] Thomas also noted the sexuality depicted in the film as "gratuitous," but conceded "several first-rate performances [and] respectable camera work that makes the most of its rural setting.

"[10] Mark Deming of AllMovie awarded the film one and a half out of five stars, deeming it "a stark but interesting low-budget thriller.

Add a Psycho- inspired mix of mental aberration and gory killing, and Violent Midnight is a progressive exploitation show with multiple promotional handles.