Sunday, June 22, 2014

Nightbeast (1982)

How bad is it? It's extremely cheap science fiction/horror.
Should you see it? Yes. I think it's Don Dohler's best film.


Don Dohler's a semi-professional regional film director who uses his production crew as his cast and has made several films that range from absolutely terrible to mediocre. This one has just enough action to be watchable. An alien with a ray gun lands in Maryland and either lasers people (with poor special effects) or eats them (with very poor special effects). The alien is obviously a rubber suit, but it's not bad, given the budget. It looks like a remake of Dohler's earlier "Alien Factor," but with only one alien. There's no explanations for what anyone does, especially in some "romantic" scenes, and the dialogue seems to be an afterthought.

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