Night Screams is a U.S. slasher horror film directed by Allen Plone from a screenplay by Mitch Brian and Dillis L. Hart II, based upon the latter’s storyline. It was edited by Herbert L. Strock (director of I Was a Teenage Frankenstein, How to Make a Monster and a slew of other low budget horrors). The film includes characters watching kill highlights from Graduation Day (1981) on TV and soft core excerpts from a 1970s adult movie featuring John Holmes, Seka and Desiree Cousteau on video!
A troubled high school football star throws a party for his friends. Meanwhile, two insane killers escape from a nearby asylum on that same night, and in their efforts to elude authorities, wind up at the party.
“It’s obvious that the writers of Night Screams were trying for something a little more original. A lot of the basic elements remain – a violent person released from a mental institution, a party at a desolate house, sexy hijinks, etc,… but a new element was added. Not only was one of the young party goers probably a notorious killer, but two escaped convicts were also stashing themselves away at the party. An interesting twist that is never fully realized, it’s still kind of neat little crinkle in the normally straight-as-an-arrow plot line.” Retro Slashers
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“Night Screams has very little going for it, to say it stunk would be a compliment. There are a few fun kill sequences and a bit of hokey gore here and the body-count tops 20, but it’s purely amateur day when it comes to the acting, directing and, well, just about everything else really. The last 20 minutes perk up a bit – but considering the unrelieved tedium of what’s gone before it’d be a miracle if it didn’t. The ending is a 24-carrott groaner too and will probably have you throwing your empties at the screen when ‘chopsticks’ starts up again, but at least it was a little leftfield.” Hysteria Lives
“It would have taken me pages to accurately recount every time a character appears in a location where he or she could not conceivably be according the laws of physics. When it was not violating the space-time continuum, this movie featured shaky camera work. Even that was often easy to overlook, because the scenes were so dark that the cinematography didn’t make any difference. As annoying as this movie is to watch, it is equally annoying to listen to. The microphones flickered on and off at random, which often cut off the ends of important lines. The soundtrack features three songs, one of which is fucking “Chopsticks.” All three are played again during the credits.” Something Awful
