The Night Flier

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Summary: One of the best horror films of recent memory
Review: The Night Flier is one of the best horror films of recent years, it dispenses with the annoying hip-talking teenagers and concentrates on a really creepy morality tale with a great cast (especially Miguel Ferrer) and some truly messy gore effects in the final half. Any true horror fan should certainly check this one out, it truly is an excellent breath of fresh air in an age of stale cookie-cutter "Scream-esque" thrillers. Highly reccomended.

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Summary: Chilling Vampiric Gore-Fest!
Review: The Night Flier succeeds at two toghu endeavours. It is a good horror movie while at the same time it is a great King adaptation! I've read the story and the movie didn't leave out any major details. Instead it extrapolated on the minor conflicts that King set up. The only things different from the story really is the competition with Ms.Blair. Finally, King left the ending open-ended and this movie finishes the story and adds an ironic twist. King fans should definitely see this movie. The vampire is extremely creepy looking, but the scariest part is when Dees experiences Hell! Horror fans will love that part!

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Summary: Good movie
Review: The really interesting thing about this movie is that it was made by HBO and shown on this network before it was shown on the theaters. I watched it on HBO when it first played and a couple of months later my son and his cousin returned from the movies recounting about this really scary movie they had just seen. It turned out to be the Night Flier.

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Summary: A "WEAK" 2 Star vampire flick
Review: There is something about the fact that this vampire uses or needs an airplane to fly around from place to place that just takes away from any horror this film could really create. Stephen King's "The Night Flier" has a very poor plot and an even poorer cast of characters. Shame on you Stephen King!! Moreover, there is not one character in the entire movie that you can relate to or even sympathize with in the slightest.

The movie centers around a selfish and crass newspaper reporter who is trying to track a serial killer who flies his plane from airport to airport in search of victims. It becomes increasingly apparent that this serial killer is not human.

Now, the only reason this film does not get a 1 star rating is that the vampire is rather horrifying looking and the ending is slightly creepy, but everything else about this movie fails to evoke any interest in me whatsoever. If you really want to see a good vampire flick, you should watch the original "Salem's Lot", directed by Tobe Hooper (not that "new" garbage that came out recently on TNT), which is one of, if not the scariest movie of all-time.

To be quite frank, I'm reluctant to give "The Night Flier" even 2 stars, but, as I said above, there are a couple of creepy/scary elements to it. If you see it on TV, you should check it out for yourself, but it's not worth a penny to me.



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Summary: Could have been good.....but loses its way.
Review: This could have been a good movie of the horror genre. It takes a creative and imaginative mind like Stephen King's to create a story about a vampire who flies around at night killing people at airports and sucking their blood. The ending is lame and a great letdown. The vampire is being tailed by a reporter from a sheet like the National Enquirer. He doesn't know the killer is a real vampire. The vampire tells him to get off his tail. He doesn't listen and the vampire confronts him. This is where the story loses its way. Somehow the reporter gets blamed for all the killing. He was set up by the vampire to take the fall for his killing. The reporter ends up in the scandal sheet as "The Night Flier" and the vampire gets away to kill another day. It could have been a much better movie if the vampire just killed the reporter or the reporter killed the vampire with a stake through his heart. This is an example of many movies which show great promise but are unable to create a complete finished product which shows good continuity from the beginning to the end.

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Summary: BLOODY FANGTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: This film is a def gem! When this first appeared on cable I said to myself,"self this is gonna be another low-rent stephen king film that does the story no justice".Boy was i wrong! Finally saw this on video & it rates as one of the better vampire flicks to come out in sometime! Miguel Ferrer is his usual self(underrated & simply great) the f/x are excellent(ala dusk till dawn) & the movie has a def eerie atmosphere that gets under your skin(sorta like dolly). Vampire fans pick this up & enjoy some old school horror w/modern day f/x. Dwight Renfield(ya gotta love it)!

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Summary: The worst movie I've ever seen.
Review: This film is so dumb it is more funny than scary. What could be worse than a vampire who not only dresses up like a Bela Lagosi impersonator but also goes around in a little black air plane. What a joke.

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Summary: This movie will scare you to death!!
Review: This is one of the best horror films I have ever seen, and I've seen a lot of scary stuff. I have been a long time Stephen King fan. I have never seen so much blood in one movie. The suspense just leads you on. If you are scared of flying, don't watch this. I would reccomed this movie to anyone who wants to get really scared

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Summary: Worse than bad!
Review: This is so lame I had to fastforward to get to the good parts. Problem was...I couldn't find any. I haven't read King's story from which this was adapted, but the storyline offered in this film is stupid and about as deep as a ghost's footprint. Don't waste your time, because there are 200 other horror films out there that are better viewing. You'd have to pay me $100 to watch this again, even with the fastforward in full motion. One star is too generous! More like negative 15 or something like that. Garbage, garbage, garbage!

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Summary: They finally got it right!
Review: This movie rocks, man. I'm so happy that they finally produced a Stephen King script almost entirely true to the original story. More than that. It's about 99% accurate. They added some stuff like a new female character played by Julie Entwistle, that wasn't in the book, but it turned out to be integral to the enhanced ending. Normally I'm very critical of people who watch these movies without having read the books first, but this time I think I can confidently say that even non-readers should like this movie. It's a masterpiece of suspense and gore. Rent it, folks, and call him the "Night Flier."