Night Fright
Night Fright
| 01 November 1967 (USA)
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A government space experiment into the effects of cosmic rays on animal life goes horribly wrong, creating a mutant monster that terrorizes a rural community.

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mark.waltz

Dreadfully boring and beyond recommendation, this combination mutant monster movie and beach party movie without a beach is insipidness at its most absurd. It takes nearly an hour before the creature appears, and it ain't worth the wait. All that happens up until then is the partying rebellious teeny boppers being told to get out of a certain part of land where several teens have gone missing. They refuse, returning to dance, neck and ultimately be chased by a mutant ape like creature. The acting is beyond amateurish, and veteran actor John Agar seems plenty desperate for work to have accepted this piece of dreck. This is drive in schlock at its most yawn inducing, and one I'm glad I never have to venture to try to watch ever again.

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Hayjohowe

Night Fright is a poorly put together film that centers around a small town who is experiencing murders. Upon investigation, the sheriff finds the print of a large creature. This is the only somewhat interesting thing that happens in the movie, until about 50 minutes of so in. The rest of the time is just people talking about whats going on. We see a group of kids planning a party, then (With horror and shock beyond belief) Go to the party. We see the sheriff doing nothing but talk about the mystery, and everyone else just listens. I didn't have high hopes for this movie, but I expected something a little better. We don't even see the monster until 50 minutes in, and when we see the monster, the lighting is so bad that we don't "See the monster". Anyway, there's a five minute chase scene, and then it's back to talking about whats going on, for another 15 minutes. They then decide to kill the monster using bait, and a mannequin strapped to a bomb. When the monster comes to take the bait (Two young teens), they run to the mannequin, which the monster grabs, and it blows the monster to bits. I do not recommend this movie. All it is is people talking, talking, partying, talking, and- Oh hey there's a poorly lit monster chasing a dude, more talking, more talking, and-Oh hey look the monsters gonna grab that mannequin and-OOOOOHHHH he just got the stuff blown out of him. I got this on a 50 pack of sci-fi invasion films, which cost about $10.00. so this movie cost me about 20 cents. Don't pay anymore than that, it's honestly not worth it...

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oscar-35

*Spoiler/plot- 1976, In a small town, a large object falls to Earth and strange happenings begin to occur. The local teenagers are the object of a mysterious killer that turns out to be a mutated ape from a NASA space shot.*Special Stars- John Agar *Theme- Hard science exploration can cause unfortunate mistakes.*Based on- 60's space flight myths and science fiction stories*Trivia/location/goofs- John 'Mr. Shirley Temple' Agar could have phoned-in his film acting performance in this film. It was uninteresting, shallow and predictable. This film plot is a rip off of hundreds of 50's science fiction Drive-in films with an attempt to updated the plot. It was very badly done.*Emotion- A somewhat forgettable early 1970's film that goes TOO long with endless chase and teen-age dance sequences because the film plot is too 'thin'. It's sad to see such a large star (Agar) settling for these wimpy lead roles and he's not trying his best to 'chew up the scenery' when the plot opportunity presents itself clearly. No pacing in this monstrosity. Please, this is a boring and too long a film, shorten it.

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horsegoggles

Why film a movie if you are not going to provide light for the cameras. The film would have been about seven minutes long if it were not for the shots of people walking through the woods. I enjoyed seeing the typical sixties dress and the 60's cars. I couldn't help but ask myself what self respecting kid would drive a Tornado, though they were neat cars. The music was tedious and repetitive. Ten minutes of people dancing in the dark was too much. I've seen worse acting, but the manikin should have had top billing. At least it kept it's mouth closed. I think the motivation for making the movie must have been that someone had a lot of film available that had gone beyond the expiration date and they didn't want to see it go to waste. It went to waste.

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