Hit me Experimental mix of horror about alien parasites, zombie-themed, slasher about a maniac with a claim to comedy. So the Night of Nightmares is many and they are different. True, migrated to the film and all the stamps of American youth cinema. A finale hinting at a continuation of history and the dichotomy of good and evil in student society are included.
It's not funny for a comedy. It’s not scary, but with a good idea. People here serve as a kind of container for artificially created alien creatures, similar to huge slugs. And also to infect other students. It is a pity that most of the timekeeping was devoted to the attempts of the main character to roll up to the main smart beauty of the university and inappropriate flashbacks in the youth of Detective Ray. As a result, the film is catastrophically lacking tension. However, it pays off with the very idea, pleasant atmosphere and flamethrower in the last third of the film.
Characters are typical of almost all horror films of their era. But there is a charismatic detective Ray, a collective image of an experienced cop from an old Hollywood horror: honest, a little crazy, obsessed with heavy memories, cynically saying “hit me” on every call, etc. etc. The merit of Tom Atkins is that he showed his character at the same time comical and lively and looks especially kosher against the background of other empty spaces.
Night of Nightmares is a movie that relaxes your brain and nerves. There is nothing to be afraid of, nothing to laugh about, nothing to analyze either. A surface picture that looks surprisingly interesting once, but to which you do not want to return.
6 out of 10
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