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Night Visitor (1989)

Rate: 4
Viewed: 6/21

6/21: What do you get that's heavily stocked with has-beens?

The answer is: a bad movie. I mean, look at the names for Night Visitor: Elliott Gould, Allen Garfield, Michael J. Pollard, Richard Roundtree, Henry Gibson, and Shannon Tweed. Each was famous for one and only one thing at some point from way, way, way back. Now, they star in a picture that's direct-to-video from hell.

I admit the movie was playing decently for a while, thanks to Derek Rydall's ease in a leading role. Then, it just fell apart when the long-absent but top-billed actor Elliott Gould finally appeared which is an hour later. Incredibly enough, his character turned out to be 100% useless.

Night Visitor can't be defined as a horror movie if they want to get me with occasional cheap scare-'em moments. Why did Billy Colton show up in class after knowing the killer's true identity? What an idiot he is like the retard who's played by Michael J. Pollard. Then again, Billy didn't remove the cap from the camera.

Richard Roundtree plays a stupid detective. After the string of murders, he finally gets a break, and what does he do? Nothing. He automatically assumes it's another bullshit story. The least the detective can do are get a search warrant for the alleged killer's house, tap his phones, do a stakeout, and see what shakes out.

After the movie supposedly ends, it keeps going on and on with Derek Rydall and Teresa van der Woude doing things together as if it's an audition tape for anyone interested in hiring either. It went for naught anyway because both of their careers died almost immediately afterwards. At one point, Henry Gibson showed up as an expert and disappeared for good. Scott Fults did the same as Billy's friend.

All in all, Night Visitor has absolutely no Satanic bite.

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