NightFright

Night Fright (1967)

So here is the skinny on Night Fright. The government wants to see what happens when you keep animals in space for an extended period of time. So they launch a spaceship, but promptly lose track of it. When it returns to Earth and crashes it unleashes a hideous monster that has been mutated by outer space! The evil critter immediately dispatches a couple of kids making out at Satan’s Hollow. The monster then wanders off into the woods and until it crosses paths with the world’s worst deputy, who refuses to draw his gun and shoot it! Can it be stopped before it hurts the teenagers who are endlessly walking thru the woods or those who are at the dance party that never ends?

Things I learned while being totally bored watching Night Fright.

1.In the 60s teenagers all looked like they were in their mid 30s.

2.Never ever make out anywhere near a place named Satan’s Hollow. I promise you that it will not end well. Plus how do you even get a girl to go somewhere named that? “Hey honey lets go make out in a creepy woods called Satan’s Hollow.” It sounds wrong.

3.Gorilla suite + cheap rubber mask = hideously mutated space creature.

4.If you are armed and your patrol car is forced off the road by a hideously mutated space creature don’t reach for the radio, get you damn gun! If you don’t then the hideously mutated space creature will do what hideously mutated space creatures do. This normally means you end up dead. On a side note if a hideously mutated space creature is killing you because you grabbed your radio instead of your gun please don’t cry like a little girl into the radio. That is just embarrassing.

Now back to the review. The story is terrible and so boring that I was struggling to keep my eyes open. But I did so as a public service to you my readers. The movie spends most of its time showing people wandering thru the woods or dancing at a party. When we do get some action it is ruined by some of the worst acting you will see and a creature that is so stupid looking that even I, a big fan of the rubber suited menaces, cringed. Now I suppose the creature could have entered the so bad it is fun to watch level of cheese if the movie weren’t so damn boring. And I have to mention just one more thing. John Agar (Tarantula, The Mole People, The Brain from Planet Arous ) was in some bad movies, but I’ve never seen him phone in a performance until now. I had figured that if nothing else he would be worth watching and was sorely disappointed. But it is that boring so forget it.

Please just let me take one for the team here and avoid Night Fright at all costs.

0 out of 4

reviewed by John Shatzer