
Baltimore filmaker Don Dohler does an update on his 1979 film "The Alien Factor" this time only a single alien(reptilian looking)crash landing near a small town and going on a rampage.... (Full plot summary below)
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Baltimore filmaker Don Dohler does an update on his 1979 film "The Alien Factor" this time only a single alien(reptilian looking)crash landing near a small town and going on a rampage.
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| User ReviewKyle ENightbeast could possibly be the best horror b-movie from the 1980's that I've ever seen. Absurdly awful, Nightbeast doesn't stop being ridiculous from the moment it starts to the moment it ends. Filled with some of the worst acting and special effects you'll ever see, Nightbeast is a movie that rivals the great "awful" films of the last century, including "Plan 9 From Outer Space", and more recently, "Satan Clause". But all this awful thrown into an awful blender doesn't stop Nightbeast from being one of the most entertaining trainwrecks of a movie I've ever seen. This is in desperate need of a remake. I mean Hollywood, if we can remake good films like "True Grit", can we at least give films that were flat out bad to begin with a second shot, like Nightbeast? Nightbeast is basically the story of an alien who crash lands on Earth and begins killing everyone in his path. It's never really explained why he is killing everyone, but it also really doesn't matter. Perhaps my favorite moments of Nightbeast are within the first twenty minutes, where litterally every character you are introduced to is completely destroyed by Nightbeast's insane ray gun. This thing has no reloading, absurd distance, and is able to disintegrate everything in its path. You owe it to yourself to watch Nightbeast. Again I will say that while my rating is high, for sheer comical value only, Nightbeast is probably some of the lowest budget cinema you will ever see. |
| User ReviewSarah FThis is amazing the FX are genius and it's a TRUE LOW BUDGET SCI-FI Horror classic and TROMA own it WATCH IT |
| User ReviewNicholas BI wish I could give this seven stars. Watch it yesterday. |
| User ReviewDustin NAbout half the time he's more of a day beast, but whatever. |
| User ReviewAltered EA sheriff, his partner (work and sexual), and several expendable local deputies fail to kill a single unarmed alien for an hour and a half, ultimately ending in a rushed and anti-climactic showdown. Funnily enough, this joke of a movie was the first film JJ Abrams, of Star Wars and Star Trek fame, ever worked on (he did music and sound effects). Worth watching for the credits alone. For the curious, Nightbeast was legally uploaded to Troma's YouTube Channel for the public to see. Lloyd Kaufman is a great man. |
| User ReviewBlais EAn infrequently-seen but enjoyably scrappy-and-slappy little mid-80's Grade Z horror film depicting a small town's efforts to curtail the bloody swath of devastation a decidedly-unfriendly, fearsomely-fanged, ferocious and fiendish alien bastard initiates on Planet Earth after his ship has crash-landed there. The acting, as one might expect, is of a middle-school play caliber, but the low-brow, yet zesty special effects, and the creature's joyously-nasty personality and obvious glee in his copiously-blood-soaked undertakings slightly uplift the production from the customary murderous-monster-on-the-rampage tripe that was so plentiful throughout the 1980's. One of my many "Guilty Pleasures". |
| User ReviewBjorn OIt's like John Waters meets early George Romero. If you're watching this as a serious horror film, it'll be totally lost on you. This is worth watching solely for the sheer awfulness of it all. Bad effects + Even worse acting = Pure comedic gold! |
| User ReviewJason DI defy any It?s Always Sunny in Philadelphia fan not to sing ?Daybeast! Fighter of the Nightbeast?? every time they hear the title. |
| User ReviewRichard PWhat a film! First saw this when i was 11 years old. You know how time and memory changes the way you remember a film? We'll this one's remained the same throughout. Even JJ Abrams made the music for it! It is trashy but more watchable then today's carp. |
| User ReviewKevin BA sort-of-remake of Alien Factor, but with blood, boobs, and just one beast. Boy, Troma--with all of their non-relevant extras--really adds nothing to the presentation of a good movie (that they had nothing to do with producing), huh? |