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Summary: Surreal Kinetics
Review: If your looking for great interesting plot, its not its strength. What you get is psycho murders people-cops hunt-cops find-psycho goes to jail....But I felt that after seeing most of the current wave of serial killer DVD's out that this was one of the strongest. The camera work / editing was the star of the show. Even though we've seen bits of this style before, I found the wild, surreal kinetics to be truly entertaining. Yes if you liked the movies styles of Jacob's Ladder, Nat Born Killers, Spun & Requiem for a dream...you'll love this. Watch it for the editing, not for the storyline..... I bought my copy and am not unsatisfied at all.
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Summary: Best Part? The cover of the DVD.
Review: It's true. The cover is the only decent thing about this movie. I like a good horror flick like the rest of them and being based on a true story, I thought it would definatley be worthwhile. Wrong. This movie drags. It is completely anti-climactic. It opens with crazy camera effects, in the style of Jacob's Ladder, and fades from there. The acting is weak, there are no good build ups as it seems put together without much thought, and doesn't deliver the eerie feeling that good horror movies can bring. It's filmed in the dark and the spooky scenes are rushed so it just seems like one big "filler" of lame dialogue and poor acting. On the whole, the movie is anemic.
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Summary: One of the worst ever
Review: Out of the serial killer movies, this one has to be the worst by far. First, we don't even get to know who the "Nightstalker" really was. He is only shown when he attacks. We know nothing about his life or his upbringing. He hardly even speaks in the movie. Also what was VERY distracting from the beginning, is the camera would shake real fast throughout the movie. It made me very seasick and I wanted to turn it off. I guess it tried to be all "artsy" and show what it's like to be intoxicated on drugs. It was just annoying. My friend lent me his copy. I'm just glad I didn't have to pay for this.
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Summary: nightstalker
Review: Roselyn Sanchez is the most gorgeous woman I have ever seen. If you come across this Roselyn, then you know Ryan Kesser is in love with you. I could care less if people don't like your films because your beautiful and I am in love with you!
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Summary: Uninspired Trip
Review: The story of 1985, notorious serial killer, Richard Ramirez,
who assumed he was under the influence of Satan powers, whilst raping/murdering his 7 victims in LA. Anyone with half a brain would realise that this man was under no satanic power, but under the hypnotism of cheap 'Angel Dust'...Now, to the film. Well the film brings in much grit & grime,
showing us most of the rapes/murders. Problem is that the only times we get a little insight to Ramirez/Nightstalker is only when the satanic fella is committing the murderers.
And believe me, it isn't much.
What takes up most of the footage are inside dramas of the detectives & beat-cops on the investigation, which is quite cliched anyway. The good part of the film, even though repetitive after a while, is the camera-work/editing when Ramirez hallucinates the demon following him, whenever evil sparks inside of him.
This looks very trippy & freaky. Great with any kind of acid. Oh yes, and the film is ONLY inspired by Ramirez's murders,
this isn't a re-telling of the events that happenend in 1985.
So don't be disappointed if you realise that you are watching a b-movie rip-off of Seven, instead of Ramirez's biopic.
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Summary: Creepy more than anything
Review: This movie is based on a true story which makes it even more creepy. There is quite a bit of the super human movement which really freaks me out. I only rated the movie with 3 stars because it is a really quick movie and you only catch glimpes of those that have become his victims. The movie freaked me out only because of the fact that this really happened in Los Angeles and it could happen anywhere. Other than that I would not recommend the movie if you are into scary, gory this is more of a "hey this is what happened awhile ago look" I personally liked it because I like to watch real stories but I have seen better than this. The movie is just to quick
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Summary: Ridiculous garbage.
Review: This movie makes Paul W. S. Anderson and Uwe Boll look talented, and their flicks appear enjoyable. Unbelievably, Fisher's "Nightstalker" manages to be, simultaneously, campy and filthy, annoying and dull, unnerving and boring, ridiculous and repulsive. There is really nothing good about it, apart from perhaps the cover and Bret Roberts - the actor who portrays Ramirez (and even he looks - expectedly - embarrassed when the hack "director", Fisher, has him play a flour-covered "vampire" weirdo, which, in Fisher's 12-year-old mentality was intended as a "symbolic" representation of what Ramirez sees in his "possessed" mind during the crime spree). The "story" is sub-imbecilic and is not in fact even loosely based on the actual events. Fisher's "writing" skills are almost as high as those of a drug-induced 13 year old metalhead, fresh after drinking a sixpack of beer and viewing "House of 1000 Corpses" with his Deicide tape playing right into his ears. In fact, said metalhead would probably write and direct a better movie than Fisher's (well, it certainly could not be any worse!) - at least in *his* film, there would be no unnerving stroboscopic Pokemon "techniques", which Fisher loves so much. As far as the director's "factual" treatment and "research" go, this flick's script was apparently based on Fisher's experience of trying to read a short, misspelled summary of an article reviewing a book with a chapter whose part described a documentary about comic books depicting serial killers, who happened to include Ramirez. Fisher's directing is, if possible, even worse than his "writing" - often, this flick is simply unwatchable, with its shaky, chaotic camera movement and ridiculous (and nauseatingly long) high-speed segments set to obnoxious, vomit-inducing, ear-shattering noise which Fisher apparently considers to be "music" (and which in fact did not even exist in 1985 - Night Stalker would listen to the likes of AC/DC and Springsteen, not some antitalent, late 1990s Death Metal bands). The only potentially redeeming aspect of this movie might be the fact that, much like Ed Wood's movies (which are, of course, infinitely better, involve much more talent, decent music and superior directing), it often manages to be unintentionally funny. For instance, Fisher often makes an infantile attempt at inserting cheap "ambience" into scenes by filling their backgrounds with repeated white noise and incomprehensible mumbling done in a low bass. He intends this mumbling to be the "voice of Satan", but it sounds exactly like the Psychlos from John Travolta's Therefore, every time I heard Fisher's "Satan", I would think "Ooh-oh, it's Travolta the Terl!" and burst out laughing. Fisher's ludicrous image of "Satan" himself - the aforementioned flour-covered bald Howard the Duck reject with sharp teeth - made the scenes even funnier. As for the DVD itself, there were some deleted scenes (even though the whole film should have been one deleted scene), a trailer, a bit better than the flick itself (in the same sense as gonorrhea is better than AIDS), plus a commentary track from Mr Antitalent himself, Chris Fisher (at least I've read that there is a commentary, on the DVD box - I did not actually listen to it, since I have no intention to hear talentless dolts drone about themselves.) A while ago I bought the DVD with the TV film about Ramirez ("Manhunt") from Amazon Europe, and any second of that film highly surpasses Fisher's lameness. I never thought I could see someone less talented than Paul W. S. Anderson and Uwe Boll actually find employment in Hollywood - but today I saw him, and his name was "Chris Fisher".
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Summary: Horrible...
Review: This movie was an inaccurate account of the events leading to Richard Ramirez's incarceration. The camera work confused the audience, and the acting was poor. I think Richard deserves a better movie made about him.
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Summary: Fiction is more fun then the truth
Review: which is readily evident in this mess of a flim; I am not sure where the writer concocted the ending for this film, but it sure wasnt inspired by the "real" Night Stalker. Having lived in So. Cal. when this monster was running around; Let's jsut say this movie misses on almost all the marks.
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