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Idiot-Deluxe Move over "Curse of Bigfoot", you have been usurped by a movie even more boring. Kneel and bow before it, all hail: Night Fright!Talk about a lame and boring sorry excuse of a movie. Just dismal. 1985's "Fright Night" is a true work of genius compared to this.The story was actually fairly interesting and had a lot of potential, about the NASA space prob and the animal mutations. However they didn't have the budget, the expertise, nor any of the necessary special effects for the 40 or so mentioned mutated animals or the spacecraft. The direction and overall execution of this b-flick are woefully terrible and the end result is just another lame monster movie, that is a complete and utter bore to sit through. Most especially in the case of the movies patently lame finale, where we're treated to the thrills of watching several anonymous people who are waiting for the monster to appear; which adds up to -several minutes- worth of people, (I.E. characters you don't care about) sitting in complete silence, staring into the woods at night. The monster is lured into a trap of sorts, with a mannequin which is used as bait and is then blown-up by dynamite. Possibly the least exciting explosion ever caught on film, covered very economically by a single camera angle (blink and you miss it) and there, that's the climax of the movie. In the immediate aftermath, moments later they couldn't even muster up some smoldering monster chunks, instead we see just a small scrap of hair that's not even the slightest bit singed - despite being dynamited one minute earlier. This movie offers no real visuals (except a guy in a gorilla suit and a latex mask), nor generates, at any time, any energy or excitement to speak of. You'll just have to be content with b-list actors briefly describing things to you and several aimless, seemingly under-lit scenes of the monster trudging through the woods at night. Not to forget the "red hot parking action". I'm talking about those scenes that show someone parking their car, getting out and walking to the front door of a house, all in real time, with no editing. One of the staple shots, frequently used in bad movies to pad out their run time and this movie has several such scenes. Ultimately just a profoundly boring and mundane way to tack on extra 20 seconds (or more) to an already crappy movie, all this makes for some truly riveting cinema.How they depict the monster is actually quite amusing (from a page right out of the Hanna-Barbara playbook!), because it has a VERY strong Scooby-Doo-esque sensibility to it, why it's practically tangible. Really, how? Because the monster does nothing, except aimlessly runs through the woods and clearings, with it's arms in the air, while constantly making "scary noises" (just like the monster's in Scooby-Doo cartoons) clearly the mutation it underwent in space didn't increase it's intelligence. Laughable yes, but also repetitive, lame and entirely pointless. Also there's several teen-age beach party and malt shop scenes, which also falls right in line with the well-known formula seen in ANY given Scooby-Doo episode. Further adding credence to the "Scooby-Doo connection".Here's a thought. This movie actually predates Scooby by 1 or 2 years, so just maybe this was seen by the Hanna-Barbara crew and they were somehow miraculously inspired by it, took some notes and ran with it and an iconic cartoon was born; with inspiration born from the bumbling, sub-par effort known as Night Fright. To watch this movie just once, is to watch it too much and too often.And for the record I like and have always liked Scooby-Doo.

brando647 The 1960s were a simpler time when a rampaging space gorilla was enough to enthrall audiences. Or maybe not. I've got no idea how well NIGHT FRIGHT did financially but I can't imagine it did all that great. It's another piece of generic drive-in fodder but, if I'm being honest, this one almost managed to keep my attention. It doesn't help that the copy I watched was horribly degraded from the poorest of transfers and at least half of the movie was incomprehensively dark. I suppose it could've been just poor cinematography but I'm going to give the filmmakers a little bit of credit and assume this was a lot easier to follow when it was originally released in 1967. NIGHT FRIGHT is a creature feature set in a small American town where a space rocket crash lands in the wilderness and unleashes a murderous space gorilla monster on the unsuspecting local populace. This film is a by-the-numbers monster movie that plays out exactly as you expect with the local sheriff leading the charge against the extraterrestrial ape and the town's "teenage" population refusing to see the inherent danger in the situation, allowing them to throw themselves into harm's way. What gives NIGHT FRIGHT a slight edge against the competition is a reasonably decent performance from John Agar as our hero (Sheriff Clint Crawford), the inclusion of Bill Thurman (the one good part to come from 1969 TV movie "It's Alive!") as one of the deputies, and the space ape.I was legitimately surprised to see someone making a decent effort at performing in one of these movies but I guess I underestimated (and had never heard of) John Agar. NIGHT FRIGHT is a movie where it wouldn't surprise me to learn 99% of the cast didn't read the script until right before cameras rolled (and who could blame them) and Agar's Sheriff Crawford feels all the more natural when put in a scene with any of them. He's a stern sheriff with a level head and a desire to keep the community safe. He's aggravated when the Feds roll in to town and refuse him access to the crash site in his own jurisdiction. He mourns for the dead, organizes the final assault against the monster, and even ends the movie as the only person to have gone solo against the beast and walked away alive. Good for him. Bill Thurman is hanging around in the background in the first half of the film as one the handful of deputies under Crawford. While Thurman would go on to bring the fun with his double performance in "It's Alive!" two years after NIGHT FRIGHT, he's toned down to near non-existence here. I almost didn't recognize him without his crazy face, and NIGHT FRIGHT could've used some of his insane cackling. Instead he's generic police force with a future in monkey chow. I sort of wish he'd gotten the role of Sheriff Crawford purely for the fun that could be had in a final battle where he battles a mutant ape. Why not? Go nuts.Anyone else of note in this movie? No, not really. NIGHT FRIGHT has a fun 60's vibe with the town's teenagers (played by no one younger than 25, I'd bet) spouting off the lingo of the era and gathering at the lake for a dance party despite warnings from the police. No, these "kids" aren't going to let the Man get them down. They want to go out to the lake for a groovy time and no one's going to stop them. That dance party, man…we're treated to extensive footage of these "kids" dancing to some generic 60's melody (no money for song rights, I guess) for what feels like forever. We just keep cutting back to the same day-for-night footage of these people twisting and whatnot, probably because the director wanted a reason to keep cutting back to a close-up of one particular girl's butt that we see repeatedly. Groovy? Anyways, the ape: I think it was cool but I have no way of knowing because the footage is so dark that I can hardly make out any details. It truly looks like a costume borrowed from the original "Star Trek"; it's some sort of gorilla with what appears to be a bald head and maybe some ridges? I bet it looked cool in the daylight but we're never lucky enough to find out. Whatever it might be, it loves the taste of teenage flesh and it will require all the strength this little town's police force can muster to bring it down.

BA_Harrison This incredibly crummy piece of 60s sci-fi nonsense was retitled for the UK video market in the 1980s as E.T.N.: The Extraterrestrial Nastie, giving the impression of a gory, exploitative take on Spielberg's classic family favourite; but those fooled into renting the film believing that they were in for some serious graphic violence would have been extremely disappointed, for the nastiest things about it are the appalling acting, awful direction, pathetic story, and horribly dated 60s fashion, music and dialogue—there's not a drop of blood to be seen during the whole sorry mess.The 'extraterrestrial nastie' in question is the result of a government experiment on animals in space, a massive mutated monster (played by a man in a gorilla suit and rubbish plastic mask) that crashes back to Earth and goes on a rampage, killing teens who are making out or partying in the woods. There are a few laughs to be had from the 'kids' hilarious 60s lingo (although it's still nowhere near as ridiculous as the way youngsters communicate these days—LOL!) and their energetic gyrating at the 'blast at the lake' is perversely entertaining (some strange moves with most of the groovy chicks being easy on the eye), but apart from that, there's little to recommend about this badly dated piece of amateurish drive-in drivel.

Cosmoeticadotcom John Agar is a B film sci fi and horror legend from the 1950s. By the late 1960s, however, his once renowned B film career had sputtered to even sub-Tor Johnson depths. In the remaining decades of his life he was reduced from B film leading man to (ugh!) B film character actor. One of the last roles that Agar had, as a B film leading man was in 1967's Night Fright.Whereas the B films of the 1950s usually had a slight bit of professionalism left in them, as remnants from the days of studio control, by the late 1960s, B films had fallen into the hands of almost anyone with the will enough to make a film and had a few thousand bucks enough to make one. Sometimes the results could be masterful- think George Romero's Night Of The Living Dead. Most times, though, the results were not just bad, but bad in a haphazard way that showed the filmmaker didn't really give a damn about the film. Say what you will about the films of Ed Wood, but there was an attention to detail that, while poorly done, did exhibit some pride. The same cannot be said of James A. Sullivan's Night Fright.