Nightbeast

‘If you have the guts – he wants them!!’

Nightbeast is a 1982 American science fiction/horror film directed by cult Baltimore director Don Dohler. It is a remake/sequel of sorts to Dohler’s first film The Alien Factor. It stars Donald Leifert, Tom Griffiths and George Stover.

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Most of the cast of The Alien Factor reprise their roles in Nightbeast. It features opening credit effects by Ernest Farino (who created the title effects forThe Terminator, The Abyss and Terminator 2: Judgment Day) and the creature was created by John Dods who has since provided special effects for Ghostbusters II, Alien Resurrection, and The X Files. Additional Makeup Effects were by Amodio Giordano. Parts of the music was written by J.J. Abrams.

Nightbeast had a budget of $42,000, a relatively large amount for a Don Dohler film.

A British VIPCO video release, the film was included on the lamentable Section 3 “liable for forfeiture” list as covered on Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide Part Two, Draconian Days

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Reviews:

“If you’re looking for a serious sci-fi movie, you’d be looking in the wrong place with Nightbeast. If you’re looking for cheesy, schlocky, consistently low budget special effects and a montage of gunfire, then you can’t go wrong here.” Internal Bleeding

“Certainly, I shook my head a lot during this film, I even scratched it a few times, but at no point did I want to bash it off a wall. It entertained me and it didn’t outstay its welcome, to expect anything else of the movie would have been foolish. It’s far from a classic, it isn’t even very coherent, but with a just few thousand dollars Dohler made a movie that was much more entertaining and enjoyable than a lot of $100 million sci-fi movies I’ve seen.” To Obscurity and Beyond

“Well Nightbeast is probably not going to change your life, but if you are in a serious need of some real 80s entertainment of the weird kind, you can’t go wrong with Nightbeast, cause they don’t make em’ like this anymore.” Hog-Wild Howls