I have been waiting for so long to see this movie, to add to my Slasher movies list and finally last night I saw it, and after seeing it, I thought, pretty good, not brilliant but good.
Night Warning was one of those 80's horror movies that ended up getting banned and labeled as a video nasty, which to be honest I don't get why because, it's not that gory or brutal, but then again tripe like (Don't Go In The Woods and Don't Go Into The House) also ended up on the Video nasty list and they were both awful and banned for the wrong reasons in my opinion.
The movie is about a woman who is so disturbed that she resorts to murder in order to prevent her young nephew Billy from leaving.
Night Warning does have a TV Movie feel to it at times, but with added on violence. Tyrrell regularly changing from Mother figure to would-be seductress is disturbing and incendiary stuff. It is also unusual for a film of this type to tackle the issue of homophobia in such a frank way. The petty prejudices of the small town mentality are thrown into sharp relief when compared to the horror being committed behind closed doors. Interestingly it is Tyrrell and Svenson ,the film's two psychos (Tyrrell is deranged; Svenson is dangerously obsessed), who are the most rabidly moralistic.
Susan Tyrell truly shines as the psychotic Aunt Cheryl who at first manages to keep the mask of sanity in place for her nephew Billy, then letting it slip and slide completely as the movie progrees, she's a brilliant psycho and steals the show with every scene she's in. Jimmy McNicol (Billy) plays his part well, his chemistry with his Aunt and his girlfriend worked, he's just an all round good guy who doesn't deserve all the crap that he's been put through. Bo Svenson (The Detective) was the worst character I have ever come across in a slasher movie, he was good at being this really hatable character, and I did, I did really hate this guy and his detective skills are rubbish, I'm glad he had what was coming to him in the end. And Julia Duffy (Julie) played the part of the sympathectic girlfriend really well, she was sweet and stunning and had a really good chase scene at the end.
All in all a really good movie, a great entry in the Slasher cycle of the 1980's, the performances were well played, but it's Susan Tyrell whose the best in this part. The incesterous theme in this movie I found unsettling and other than that a great movie.
Night Warning was one of those 80's horror movies that ended up getting banned and labeled as a video nasty, which to be honest I don't get why because, it's not that gory or brutal, but then again tripe like (Don't Go In The Woods and Don't Go Into The House) also ended up on the Video nasty list and they were both awful and banned for the wrong reasons in my opinion.
The movie is about a woman who is so disturbed that she resorts to murder in order to prevent her young nephew Billy from leaving.
Night Warning does have a TV Movie feel to it at times, but with added on violence. Tyrrell regularly changing from Mother figure to would-be seductress is disturbing and incendiary stuff. It is also unusual for a film of this type to tackle the issue of homophobia in such a frank way. The petty prejudices of the small town mentality are thrown into sharp relief when compared to the horror being committed behind closed doors. Interestingly it is Tyrrell and Svenson ,the film's two psychos (Tyrrell is deranged; Svenson is dangerously obsessed), who are the most rabidly moralistic.
Susan Tyrell truly shines as the psychotic Aunt Cheryl who at first manages to keep the mask of sanity in place for her nephew Billy, then letting it slip and slide completely as the movie progrees, she's a brilliant psycho and steals the show with every scene she's in. Jimmy McNicol (Billy) plays his part well, his chemistry with his Aunt and his girlfriend worked, he's just an all round good guy who doesn't deserve all the crap that he's been put through. Bo Svenson (The Detective) was the worst character I have ever come across in a slasher movie, he was good at being this really hatable character, and I did, I did really hate this guy and his detective skills are rubbish, I'm glad he had what was coming to him in the end. And Julia Duffy (Julie) played the part of the sympathectic girlfriend really well, she was sweet and stunning and had a really good chase scene at the end.
All in all a really good movie, a great entry in the Slasher cycle of the 1980's, the performances were well played, but it's Susan Tyrell whose the best in this part. The incesterous theme in this movie I found unsettling and other than that a great movie.