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Night time Fright is a 1967 American science fiction horror movie directed by James A. Sullivan from a screenplay written by Russ Marker (who wrote the same script for an unfinished venture named The Demon of Satan’s Lake in 1964).
Sullivan was a manufacturing supervisor and cinematographer on a number of Larry Buchanan films and is credited as an editor on the notorious ‘dangerous’ film Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966).
The film stars John Agar (Tarantula; Revenge of the Creature; The Mind from Planet Arous) and Bill Thurman (1966’s The Black Cat; Maintain My Grave Open; The Evictors).
Within the UK, the movie was cheekily launched on VHS in 1983 by sleaze producer David Grant on his World of Video 2000 label as E.T.n. The Further-Terrestrial Nastie – with the tagline ‘What’s 12 ft tall and eats individuals’ to money in on Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi household film and the British ‘video nasties‘ ethical panic. British video renters have been probably disenchanted by the tame 1967 providing they rented on tape and, as Common Worldwide Photos threatened authorized motion, the opportunistically retitled launch was quickly withdrawn. Throughout the identical period of ethical hysteria, David Grant was later imprisoned for distributing Nightmares in a Damaged Brain on video.
Plot:
A Texas neighborhood is beset by a rash of mysterious killings in and round “Devil’s Hole” involving among the college students from the native school. The sheriff investigating the deaths discovers the startling identification of the killer chargeable for the murders.
It transpires {that a} NASA experiment involving cosmic rays has mutated an alligator into an ogre-like type and bullet-proof unstoppable killing machine with a thirst for blood…
Assessment:
Over-wordy and but mildly amusing in locations (particularly the frugging to guitar music by The Wildcats scenes), Night time Fright comes over as a vapid leftover from the late Fifties. That mentioned, a minimum of throughout that traditional monster film period filmmakers remembered once in a while the viewers must see a minimum of a semblance of a creature from outer house. Right here, all director Sullivan provides us are day-for-night photographs of one thing we typically can’t fairly see as a result of poor lighting.
In the meantime, composer Christopher Trussel’s rating is overly dramatic to the purpose of ridiculousness. Alas, Night time Fright is extra Manos-like than Ed Wooden enjoyable trash.
Adrian J Smith, MOVIES and MANIA
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Different opinions:
“Heck, if you happen to took the entire boring scenes out of this film, you simply might need sufficient footage for a trailer. All in all, this film jogged my memory of a Larry Buchanan film […] The one drawback is that Larry Buchanan would have made a greater film than this one, and you may’t say that fairly often.” Fantastic Movie Musings and Ramblings
“The monster on this film have to be associated to Robotic Monster. It’s a gorilla with three-toed footprints and an alien head. We don’t see a lot of it however we do see a variety of John Agar … The Wildcats present cool instrumental music and the children put on V-neck sweaters and white boots.” Michael J. Weldon, The Psychotronic Video Information
“An unimaginative and poorly-made monster-from-beyond entry.” John Elliot, Elliot’s Movies on Video
” …director brings no tempo or type to the routine story. Immediately forgettable.” John Stanley, Creature Options
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