Thursday, July 24, 2025

The Night Flier (1997)

A good Stephen King adaptation. Vampires are bought into the 20th century, travelling by light aircraft instead of a horse drawn carriage!

Richard (Miguel Ferrer) is a hard noses reporter for a sensationalist tabloid. He begins to investigate a strange case of vampire style attacks by someone who arrives at remote airstrips by private plane, though he thinks it is just a really sick serial killer. New reporter Katharine (Julie Entwistle) is also after the story, they do work together for a while but Richard is determined to get the scoop and ends up locking her in a wardrobe! 

Richard finally tracks down the killer, but ends up with much more than he bargained for...

A fine enough film, low budget but plenty of gore, the vampire effects are pretty well done. Although we know we are in a horror film, much of the film plays out as a pretty decent crime investigation film too.