Night Fright

 
Night Fright is a 1967 TV movie staring John Agar, who we previously saw in The Mole People.  Our movie opens with some teens playing kissy face.  The radio tells us a fireball was seen blazing across the sky.  Something approaches the car and...what the hell?  That was a weird transition.  From scream to laugh.  Anyway, we now switch to two other teens.  I hope they last longer than the first couple.

Oh, I hope this guy dies soon.  His acting is so bad.  He keep rambling on about leaves and gravity and such.  His pauses are more pregnant than those of Shatner... and i'm a Shatner fan.  What are you trying to say!?  So the kids run and play in the forest for ever and then...another weird jump cut...to our credits?  Eleven minutes into the movie and its like someone forgot about them.   

The police talk about finding a crashed rocket then go to a murder scene.  Murder?  Murdered by...nature?  They keep saying the girl was 'chewed up' what makes them think it was murder?  Anyway the police look for clues.  Honestly I think Scooby and Shaggy could do better.  This looking for clues sequence just goes on and on.

They finally find some weird alligator like tracks.  Does this whole movie consist of people walking in the woods?!  The biggest excitement thus far is the sheriff nearly getting ran over by the teenagers.  The movie suddenly switches...to a commercial?  Oh, no...it just looks like one.  For a minute there I was about to head to the lobby for a snack.

So later, much later, the kids have a 'beach party'.  Looks like they're just in the woods near a lake.  Somebody better die soon.  Having a party in a place called Satan's Hollow...great idea by the way.  Nothing can possibly go wrong.  Finally, a deputy is cornered by the monster.  Even this is just a tease.  The teens are warned to stay away and most of them actually listen.  The kids that didn't leave get terrorized by the monster.  He slowly stalks a girl through the woods.  The sheriff shows up, shots the monster...then he runs away.

Later, a scientist tells us that a NASA experiment that launched animals into space is what crashed.  The animals have mutated and are responsible for the killings.  The sheriff forms a plan and everyone waits for the monster.  He uses a mannequin as a decoy and blows up the monster.  Jokes are made, hugs given, the girl is kissed and we have...The End.

Most of the movie takes place at night...or what we are supposed to believe is night.  The monster looks like a Klingon in a gorilla suit.  At one point, during the VHS boom, the movie was retitled, 'The Extraterrestrial Nasty'.  So after all this if you even consider watching this film...I pity you.  Don't do it.  This film is on the same level as Octaman or The Beast of Yucca Flats.  It's so bad and there isn't even a lot to make fun of.