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Night Terror (aka Night Drive) [Blu-ray]
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Genre | Mystery & Suspense |
Format | Anamorphic, NTSC |
Contributor | Nicholas Pryor, E.W. Swackhamer, Michael Tolan, Richard Romanus, Quinn Cummings, Valerie Harper, John Quade, Dinah Manoff See more |
Language | English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 13 minutes |
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TV legend Valerie Harper (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda) stars in this mesmerizing thriller about a terrorized motorist. Carol (Harper) learns that her son has been hospitalized and is in serious condition several hundred miles away. Her husband (Michael Tolan, All That Jazz) is out of town and cannot be reached, desperate to be with her son, she’s forced to start out alone on the long, barren drive from Phoenix to Denver. Very late at night and almost out of gas in an unfamiliar area, Carol notices a highway patrolman ticketing a speeding motorist, as she approaches them for directions to the nearest gas station, the officer is suddenly shot by the motorist. Carol in panic, drives off in terror―but not before the killer has seen her. The nerve-jangling events that follow are the tale of Carol’s frantic efforts to reach help―before she’s the killer’s next victim. Night Terror also-known-as Night Drive was stylishly directed by television veteran E.W. Swackhamer (The Dain Curse) and features a stellar cast that includes Richard Romanus (Mean Streets), Nicolas Pryor (Risky Business), John Quade (Every Which Way but Loose), Quinn Cummings (The Goodbye Girl) and Dinah Manoff (Grease).
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- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Package Dimensions : 5.3 x 3.9 x 0.3 inches; 2.72 Ounces
- Director : E.W. Swackhamer
- Media Format : Anamorphic, NTSC
- Run time : 1 hour and 13 minutes
- Release date : June 29, 2021
- Actors : Valerie Harper, Nicholas Pryor, Richard Romanus, John Quade, Michael Tolan
- Subtitles: : English
- Studio : Scorpion Records
- ASIN : B08ZTZ9GQ1
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #85,050 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #2,918 in Horror (Movies & TV)
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The quality of the film transfer is superbly well done. However there is a serious flaw: approximately 16 minutes from the original tv-syndicated version were cut out on this realease which is greatly disappointing. The scenes left out I felt were crucial in showing the drama and suspense of the story, including how psychotic the killer is - (i.e. the bizarre scene of the killer in the men's bathroom, Carol almost causing an accident in the street intersection, the killer laughing at her from his Mustang as he takes up the car chase again, taking his utter frustration out on Carol's over-heating station wagon by bashing the open hood with his arm, etc.). This release is a hit, but then again a miss. Not sure why in the world the producers left these scenes out but oh well. The full unedited version can be found on YouTube which is 1 hour and 29 minutes.
Overall it's a nostalgic entertaining car chase suspense movie.
I really was expecting it to be drab and predictable (and ugly, as it WAS the seventies after all so I had no idea what was in store for me as far as clothes, cars, and hairstyles), but I found it very suspenseful, so much so I re-watched it immediately after the first viewing; there was a minimum of bad clothes and hair since most of the action takes place in cars and there are only a few characters.)
The picture begins in Phoenix, Arizona (where I live, so that was kinda neat), as a harried Carol Turney (Valerie Harper) tries to keep it together as her family is moving yet again, a pattern that apparently occurs often with her husband's job.
Her husband and the kids are making their way to Colorado in a vague way which finds only the kids and Carol's sister flying to Denver, keeping the the husband behind in town, yet he has to abort sharing the drive with his wife because of a sudden job that very night. I got lost trying to figure that dynamic out, but that's just me.
She ties up last-minute business at home, and, long story longer, Carol ends up having to drive the route alone to Denver when she learns her young son may require unexpected surgery.
Well after dark and low on gas as she flees Phoenix, Carol is disappointed when not one but two gas stations are closing or closed (that dates this film in an interesting way). Soon after, a noisy speeding sports car races past her, followed by a highway patrol car. She slows when she spots the vehicles at the side of the road, and honks at the officer to inquire where the nearest gas station is. Before he can answer, in a feverish moment he is shot in the back and killed by the sick-and-twisted driver of the sports car (Richard Romanus, credited as "The Killer." Hee.) He takes aim at Carol next, but apparently is out of ammo, instead aiming a bright light at her to get a good luck at his witness, as he must now eliminate her. From that point on, a lengthy cat-and-mouse chase ensues, with all manner of twists and turns (so to speak), and I just luvvved it. It's long, often slow paced then suddenly frenzied, the music score is great, and the leads are splendid.
I was absolutely okay with "Rhoda" as Carol, whereas some people may not be able to get past the comedic character Harper usually portrays, now cast in the dramatic role of a woman menacingly terrorized for hours on end.
I was reminded of Speilberg's first feature film "Duel," which starred Dennis Weaver driving cross country in broad daylight and chased from dawn to dusk by the unseen driver of a big rig who is presumably mad as well.
Only with "Night Terror," it's night and it's a woman.
And we DO see "The Killer," and he is NASTY.
He is almost handsome at times, but then eerily not, even ugly, particularly with his embittered facial expressions and near-violent quirkiness. The extended version of the film (occasionally shown on cable and in parts on Youtube now and again) has a lot more character exposition as far as depicting a nutty, OCD whacko before the term OCD was invented. A scene in a public restroom attests to this when he spends a lonnnng time washing his hands, wrenching the soap container off the wall when it fails to work, washing some more, then meticulously drying himself on one of those foul old-fashioned vertical cloth towel units with the endless loop of fabric. He takes special care to polish his larynx box, even to caress it a bit, before replacing it in its velvet bag (the opening scene shows us he cannot speak, as an injured ex-soldier, dogtags visible in close up as we see a long scar running up his pleasantly hairy chest up to his Adam's apple, while he stands on the side of a lonely desert highway after using a road sign for target practice with a high-powered rifle. He presses the unit to his neck and says "Goood morrrrrrrninnng" to no one, and those are two of the five words of dialogue he says in the whole movie. It's quite creepy, I remember in grade school seeing grown-ups use those things and they were just scary as hell.) He has many affectations, including a very disturbing scene at a cafe counter (which is intact in both the long and edited versions.)
Harper is also very believable, I think, as she goes from somewhat ditzy and frantically disorganized ("She just needs some looking after," her husband says early on) to a capable, resourceful heroine. Given that she has probably never witnessed a murder, let alone stalked by the killer, she holds up quite well.
The best thing - in my opinion - are the "real time" scenes, played out as if we were there watching her, with very few, if any, edits.
She stops at yet another abandoned diner/gas station to get gas/find a phone (no cell phones in 1977!) and there is only ambient sound of crickets and owls as the camera follows her all around the diner, inside after she breaks in, finds the key to the pump, exits and tries to unlock it, fails to fill the car when she realizes the electric is off, has to go back inside, find the fusebox - - it sounds boring, and for some who are used to machine-gun editing and slash and gore and explosions, this film would not be for them. I felt the banal real-time scene very suspenseful, as she has never seen the killer's face, and who knows who or what might suddenly appear while she is struggling to unlock gas pumps or to find a dime for the phone (which she doesn't.) So, in essence, we experience her actions and frustrations with her, with barely any edits and very little narrative music. All very fun and great to watch late, late at night with the lights out.
HOWEVER
-the version I watched via Instant Video or whatever here on Amazon was TRIMMED.
Severely.
I imagine this might have been the original TV version, as there are even black-out fades where the commercials would have been inserted. The cable version has all the long, drawn out and mundane scenes intact, as well as a lot of the suspenseful sequences which I think should not have been touched. But alas.
It's still fun anyway.
And look for all the Product Placement - or rather, lack of it, since in those days they often stuck big black pieces of masking tape over brand names on items or on signage and commercial labels. Schlitz and Coca Cola made the cut, but Hamm's and a few other recognizable logos got the cover-up treatment.
More fun banality to enjoy!
I've watched this film six or seven times in the last three or four days, THAT is how much I dug it.
But I doubt anyone else will, in spite of all the "THANKS for uploading this, I love it!" comments on Youtube when someone posts it now and then. Again, if you want blood and action, this is NOT the one.
So disregard this review entirely.
I just like it too much is all.
The movie starts out with the villian (a mute) that only says 'good morning" with a device rubbing against his throat.(Sounds almost robotic).
Next we cut to Valerie as a housewife with these two bratty kids and a condescending husband that treats her like a fool. Her kid gets ill and she has to drive alone thru the desert at night to be with him in the hospital. She runs low on gas and is almost empty when she sees a cop to ask for directions to a gas station. Val then witnesses the mute shoot a police officer and the mute has a light he shines in her car and chases her across the desert for hours as her car is on empty??? Go figure.
Valerie looks so ancient in this..she is only in her late 30's but actually looks about 55 or 60. She looks better now in her 70's!! Her wardrobe was awful. She borrowed her ugly orthopedic shoes from Alice from the Brady bunch and wore this awful looking flowered dress. Her hair looked like Darth Vadar's helmet...it looked like she had a bad 70's perm that they tried to straighten it and when that didn't work they stuck a hairnet over her head...what a mess.
The movie just continued to get more and more ridiculous, it was so bad it was actually laughable! Another scene that cracks me up is when the mute is in the diner and the poor waitress asks him why he is so quiet, he then grabs the coffee pot out of her hand and pours coffee all over his breakfast and the entire counter leaving her with her mouth wide open, then he puts a folded dollar in his mouth and spits it in her face. This is my kind of film. There is very little dialogue other than Val in her car crying and screaming as she was chased. The script couldn't have been more than 5 pages. It was like the took that classic movie Duel, then mixed it up with Fargo and smoked some crack to have this dribble. If you enjoy a CAMPY movie...this is it! I have to say amazon streamed this movie and it was crystal clear considering it is over 30 years old.