Bill is moving up in the world, he's got 2 separate speaking scenes, including a fight scene where he gets milk poured over his head (I have no idea who anyone in this movie is apart from Bill).Night Warning starts as a thriller, ending up as a slasher horror.The female lead is definitely a source of inspiration for Kathy Bates 9 years later.Watch the 1st 3 minutes. You wont be disappointed.

This is a truly bad film though it had a hypnotic effect on me... I just couldn't stop watching. This is an awesome film in its alarming subject matter. As a youngster, Billy Lynch is left with his Aunty Cheryl as his parents take a trip into the city. There's an accident and Billy's parents are killed so for the next fourteen years his Aunt takes care of him and brings him up. Then one day his Aunt kills a handyman who she claims tried to rape her. Billy affirms her story, though Detective Joe Carlson doesn't believe them. It's in the course of his investigation that things begin to unravel for Billy and Aunt Cheryl.There are plenty of twists and turns in the story which keeps the viewer entertained and interested. Though it's the earnestness of the acting from Bo Svenson's portrayal of the over-the-top testosteroned bullish boor of a man in Detective Carlson that makes this humorous and enthralling. I have known people who are homophobic, to the point of brutishness, but this character could be the archetype.Then there's the wonderful Susan Tyrell who's maniacal and lunatic portrayal of Aunty Cheryl is skin-crawlingly bizarre and creepy.As the film progressed and grew more florid I was surprised to see Julia Duffy and, one of my favourite actors, Bill Paxton appear. Julia Duffy does a good job as Billy's love interest Julia and is one of the main characters that aren't too unnatural. One of the strongest and realistic characters in the movie is that of the homosexual Coach Tom Landers. When viewed in respect to the homophobic actions of Carlson I thought we'd get to see more of Landers. It is actually a shame that we don'tThis film is bad enough, weird enough, crazy enough, and strangely entertaining enough to be a cult film. If you have time to spare and like a film to fascinate and delight then this is one worth a watch. I loved it...

Jimmy Lynch (Billy McNichol) is a promising high school basketball player. When he was a child, his parents were both killed in a freak road accident, and has since then been looked after by his loving, but slightly overbearing aunt Cheryl (Susan Tyrrell). He returns home one night to find his aunt holding a knife after killing a maintenance man. She had desperately groped him, shouting that she needs a man, only for him to reject her. Det. Carlson (Bo Svenson) is assigned to investigate, and when the bigoted detective finds out that the maintenance man was gay, he suspects Jimmy of also being a homosexual. He then discovers that Jimmy's basketball coach is also gay, and suspects the murder is a result of a big gay love triangle.When I was deciding which Video Nasty to watch next by reading up about them on Wikipedia, this film, also known as Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker, certainly caught my eye and sounded more interesting than the likes of Faces of Death. A Video Nasty exploring homophobia and incest, whilst mixed with a bit of gruesome violence? I was sold! As usual though, I was left disappointed. While the film certainly raises itself above tedium every now and then, it is no more than a standard psycho- biddy film, and those aforementioned themes left relatively unexplored. However Tyrrell turns in an effective performance, and Bo Svenson is certainly very funny (although I doubt that was the intention) as his rather dated gay-bashing cop. Not the worst Nasty by a long, long way, but certainly a missed opportunity. And watch out for a young Bill (listed here as William) Paxton.www.the-wrath-of-blog.blogspot.com

The director of "Gidget" and the Beach Party movies - united with the writer of the uber-crappy hinterland rape plod "Abducted" - here bring you SUSAN TYRRELL! Doing a nightmare riff off Piper Laurie's psycho mom in "Carrie," making the original look like Gidget in the process! You have never seen anything like it - even, I'm assured, if you think you've seen Tyrrell go over-the-top in other roles. Plainly bat-wacky from the first exchange, padding around the manse muttering under her breath, lurching toward total meltdown in unexpected but definitive bursts, this is an absolute high camp masterpiece of a performance, one for the ages. And damned if the movie doesn't do its best to keep up - with good pacing, adequate attention to logic and larger amounts of creative gore splooshed around than you would have thought absolutely necessary. Newhart's Julia Duffy is cute as the interloping teen photog, Jimmy McNichol is kinda bland and stupid, but does what he needs to do, and Bo Svensson is a fabulous opposite number for Tyrrell - coiled and menacing as a homophobic megalomaniac police chief. Out of nowhere, he turns the movie into a treatise about the relative perversion of the 'normal' nuclear family - bet Robin Wood loves this one. The movie can't touch Tyrrell - the Christian subtext is a propos of nothing but market placement, again cf. "Carrie" - but all she needs is a steady platform to careen across, and she gets more than that.