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Summary: Night Flier is a Night Crash & Burner
Review: After seeing the movie - and then reading the reviews on Amazon, I have to say that I don't get it. What do people see in this film? Night Flier was so incredibly boring and trite that I had to try to watch it a second time to see if I had just been too tired the first time around. I enjoy Miguel Ferrer's work in other films but in this one he just seems to stumble through. It's not his acting that is the problem, it is the bad script and extremely boring flow of the film. I could not, in any good conscience, recommend this drivel to anyone.
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Summary: A great adaption of Stephen King's short story!
Review: Although this isn't the best adaption of Stephen King's work, it certainly isn't the worst. In my opinion the best adaptions of his works were Carrie, Misery, The Body(Stand By Me), and It. The worst were Children of the Corn(All 5) and The Lawnmower man. Renfields face is what made it so good, that was one of the best looking vampires I'd ever seen in a movie! One day I took a copy I'd recorded from when it came on HBO to school with me. We had been instructed by the teacher the day before that she would be out, and if some one would bring a movie, the substitute would let us watch it. Our substitute that day was sick and did'nt want to teach, and I was the only person with a movie, so she let us watch it,every one in the class loved it.
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Summary: Death From The Sky
Review: An excellent adaptation of Stephen King's short story (Nightmares And Dreamscapes) pits a newspaper reporter against the story of his life, or death as the case may be. A mysterious Cessna leaves a trail of carnage and Miguel Ferrer must piece it together and anticipate where The Night Flier will land next. Ranks with The Stand, The Green Mile and The Shawshank Redemption as one of the best film adaptations of King's work, and a must see for any diehard gorefest fan!
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Summary: Evil has a flight plan!
Review: At first I was relucctant to see this film, but eventually I did and I felt bad for hesitating as this film is brilliant. Not all movie adaptations of Stephen King are any good but 'The Night Flier' is one of the better ones. The F/X are great and the acting not too bad. Perhaps actor Miguel Ferrer will be more recognised in film now as this is his biggest role I've yet seen. (He also starred in King's THE STAND). Not just a creepy vampire movie, it's original and entertaining and plenty of gore for gorefans. A film to get your teeth stuck into.
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Summary: PORKY GROWS UP
Review: At first, you think it's Jeffrey Combs (Reanimator); then you keep watching and wondering who is this jerk playing the nerdy editor of this slimy tabloid, Inside View. Then when the credits roll, you see it's Dan Monahan. Then you go on to Amazon and do a search for Monahan and lo and behold, you remember---he was in the two Porky's movies. Slap your head. Oh, and yes, he's not the star of the movie. Miguel Ferrer is that, and never has he been so sleazy, disgusting or revolting. And that's to his credit, as his performance drives this Stephen King adaptation. The movie is not faithful to the King story, but give credit to the screenwriters for crafting an unusually complex look at not only vampirism, but at the cruelty of the tabloids. Exploiting death as much as the vampire requires the blood of humans; Ferrer uses the dead to get bigger and better numbers in sales, and also to redeem himself from a faltering career. Enter Julie Entwisle as the young, go get em "Jimmy Olsen" who wants to take the story Ferrer refused. And yet, by the end of the movie, her youthful naivete gives way to the cynicism of Mr. Ferrer. While the ending is a little "out there" it does give us some kind of resolution to Ferrer's inhumanity.
Not a great film, it's a little slow paced, but it's worth viewing.
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Summary: Stephen King done right
Review: Based on a short story by horror maestro Stephen King, the Night Flier is a prime example of a Stephen King TV movie done right. Genre stalwart Miguel Ferrer stars as a sleazy tabloid reporter on the trail of a killer who is using a small plane to travel from small airstrip to airstrip and killing the crews he finds there in a way which suggets that this killer may be a vampire. Bloody, visceral, and surprisingly smart and faithful to King's story, the Night Flier is King done right, and is a dreadfully underrated horror flick. The denouement is pure King all the way, and is worth the price of admission alone.
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Summary: the Night Flier
Review: First of all: I am a Stephen King fan, but I have not read this story. I know its from his collection "Nightmares and Dreamscapes", who was first published in 1993. Its a story about this reporter for a magazin who writes about all the supernatural stuff they can dig up. Richard , the reporter, have worked for this magazin for years, and most of his articles have pride the frontpages. One thing about Richard is that he likes to have it his way, so when he'we been asked to do a article about some killing on the airports at night he says no. The article about this "nightflier" goes then to a new female reporter. Richard doesnt like this eather, so he takes the job from her, want to do it himself. She gets mad and starts to invstigte this herself. One by one they are getting closer to this "nightflier". They gets contact whit this sick man who thinks he are a vampire. There is just one thing, you have to be carefull when you talk to vampiers, they can kill you, you know. But even though Richard and the other reporter gets more and more scared they ceep on searching for him. They will regret this...Another vampire film you might think, but no. When Stephen King write about vampires they are not just vampires. The story is original. The dirctor have done a really good job makeing a movie on this one, it is really creapy. And the acing is ok to. - Recomanded
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Summary: beware of the night flier
Review: great short story from Stephen King adapted into a movie with Miguel Ferrer nontheless. basically about some murders and Ferrer goes on the hunt about this plane and a mysteryous secret that will be revealed to him in the end. the end is the highlight with all the bodies coming alive and then Ferrer sorta chops them into pieces and its all an illusion of the mind, that was great. for King buffs, others might want to steer clear of the ending if your sqeamish
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Summary: This gave me nightmare's!
Review: Honestly as an adult I should know better,that its all Hollywood,but seriously I didnt sleep for 2 days after watching this. I'll never look at an airport the same ever again...
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Summary: Oh, Stephen, Stephen, Stephen......
Review: I believe it was Captain Kirk who said that genius cannot operate on an assembly line. The good captain was correct, and, unfortunately, Mr. King's recent projects are excellent evidence of this. All of the fundamentals of good fiction are violated in this movie. The "heroes" are so totally flawed that it is impossible to develop any real sympathy for them, so you end up not caring when the crap goes down at the end. The plot is poorly paced and boringly repetitive. The final result seems to be a commentary on how bad paparazzi-type jounalists are, instead of what it could have been: a rousing story of a pair of journalists on a merry hunt to find a vampire. Also, wayyy too much blood and gore. Whoever produced this disappointing film should watch the original "Haunting" to see how a good horror movie is done. My advice? Let "The Night Flier" crash into the sea of obscurity, there to be lost forever.
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