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Undervalued horror
I'm not sure why The Night Flier was demolished by critics. It's a straight up horror film that is true to the conventions of the genre. While the story itself may seem a little silly, it's no where near as bad as some make out to be. In fact, the film not only packs a punch, it can be creepy. The movie focuses around sleazy tabloid journalist Richard Dee's (Ferrer) who was once the "star" reporter for Inside View, a tabloid paper which makes The Weekly World News look like kiddie stories. At one point, Dee's stops to take pictures of the graphic aftermath of a traffic accident. Dee's wants to give his "established" career a jump start so he eventually takes a story given to him by his even sleazier boss. While the story is basically Stephen King's slam against tabloid reporting, King himself has made his millions exploiting the public's love of violence and horror. I smell a little hypocrisy. Anyway, a serial killer has been flying a black Cessna Skymaster 377 and starts landing at small airports along the Eastern seaboard. He leaves in his wake a lot of bloody corpses. Dee's smells the perfect front page story. The film is big on the gore factor, and is fairly stylish. Granted, the film adaptation's of King's books have been, for the most part, awful, but The Night Flier is not only one of the better one's, it's an honorable and worthy contribution to the horror genre.

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Stephen King done RIGHT
Many Stephen King films just don't capture the scares Mr. King probably intended. Although The Shining DID and King hated that movie, so I am not sure if he likes The Night Flier or not. Well, he should. I read the story before the movie was made and the film if very faithful to the story and captures the feel perfectly. My town has a small airport like the ones featured in the story and film. No one goes there on a daily basis, so a small plane landing and the vampire pilot feasting on the small landing strip crew, is not only believable, but spooky for me (since I live about half a mile from our "airport".

The Night Flier follows a tabloid has-been reporter (played by Miguel Ferrer with his usual gravel-toned zest) chasing a small plane pilot who travels from small airstrip to small airstrip killing the crews he finds in a way that suggests he is (or thinks he is) a vampire.

My biggest problem with the DVD is that the killer is displayed on the front and back of the DVD packaging, thereby taking away any of the big surprise reveal of the killer's face near the end. I hate that. It includes a trailer and a slide-show type behind the scenes story about the making of the film.

Bottom line, this is one of the good Stephen King films. It's not blatantly scary, but it does have a certain sustained suspense to it as the journalist gains ground on his prey.

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Horroriffic
You usually see in vampire movies of some dude that looks like human except he has sharp teeth, and bulgy eyes. But that doesn't count for Nosferatu, that scared the heck out of me too. But Stephen doesn't want it to be just another vampire movie, but a movie that is much more diffrent and more strange. The gore is in the movie is so realistic, it seems as though they used real blood in the shots, and it makes you more afraid of the vampire, or I should say beast in the movie. Stephen makes the beast not like a vampire, except for the blood sucking, but more of some type of supernatural being, like SpringHeeled Jack, or someother true story humanoids. The cape kinda makes it a little less scary, but how when that old man tells how the cape looks like bats wings, makes it more frightning. The beast doesn't turn into a bat, but a dog, a very common house pet. That should make you start watching your back when you see a chocolate lab retriever. To say the least, this is the most horrific movie I've seen, next to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.