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Ceticultsot Beautiful, moving film.

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

jordanodwyer I love a film noir and this for the bill, I also love how all synopses I read before watching kept me guessing about who the villain might be! What I thought would be a Femme Fatale flick turned out to be a Damsel in Distress that kept me glued despite some wtf moments. In the scope of an 80s flick I wish I could give this a 9 or 10 but the ending made me wish for another film, or at least another 20 mins

videorama-759-859391 In it's early part, you know you've seen films like this before, which brought one film to mind, Harry Hamlin's 1990's Deceptions. But then this well constructed and stylish thriller, thrills over and over again, many times over. By it's preview, or cover, which you'd find in the ill appropriate horror section, of your video store, you'll look at this film, misjudgingly as a slasher pick, which it isn't. Jaclyn Smith, an angel who at one time in the 80's was voted, most sexiest woman (I remember that shot with her son) is perfect, as done solid by the rest of the cast, especially Mitchum who provides the killer twist, where I really like James Franciscus as Smith's lover. The story basically has Smith, as a tortured soul of a wife, who's copped the brunt of ugly verbal abuse (though no physical abuse is implied) and ridicule by hubby (who you really get to hate, and want to see dead) where you really sense Smith's pain, and frustration, and before you know it, she's an accessory to his murder, but then Smith's hell gets worse, with more bodies turning up in a freezer. In it's early part, I found the film in a nothing happening kind of land, say to films like Somebody Killed Her Husband, where some suspender moments were thrown in, like in that roadblock scene, where at first, Smith's car won't start up again, where she's en route to getting rid of one of her bodies, but boy was I mislead. The shower scene will stay with you, where Mitchum, has really got his s..t together, you kind of admire him, in spite of his corrupt intentions. We view in a CU, we really didn't need, with the after affect it has, on a burnt bodied smith. It's music score, one I really liked, to me is unforgettable. Highly recommended, for thriller fans, you won't be disappointed by this nice little oldie.

merklekranz The movie is appropriately named, "Nightkill", because it is so darkly filmed that the daylight scenes, which are not many, seem like night, and the nighttime scenes will literally leave you in the dark. Since the plot twists and turns, it would be nice to actually see what is going on. Basically, Jaclyn Smith is unwittingly drawn into a complex murder plot, involving her tyrant, millionaire husband, Mike Connors. Once her lover, James Franciscus, does the killing, nothing is explained, and the audience is left to blindly follow what is happening. Personally, I lost interest until the relentlessly downbeat ending. Despite the presence of Robert Mitchum, and some decent acting, technically the film is seriously flawed. - MERK

alansmithee04 Veteran TV director Ted Post treats us to a plodding, confused and ultimately pointless story lifted from Column B of the Harold Robbins Big Book Of Plots. Set against a smoggy Phoenix skyline, post-Charlies Angles Jaclyn Smith takes a star turn as "the woman whose eyes are mysteriously shadowed at all times" while JFK impersonator James Franciscus lounges around the fringes. Mannix goes western, monkeys are abused, models lean against classic cars, and Smith is constantly upstaged by Sybil Danning until a giallo style wrap-up brings the whole sorry mess to a bitter end.Oh yeah, and Bob Mitchum is in there too. Somewhere.