MIDNIGHT FEAR is a virtually forgotten, low budget serial killer movie. It starts out as predictably as you'd expect, with boozy cop David Carradine investigating a particularly vicious murder (the victim was skinned) before turning into something different...and rather unique.
After the first half hour, the narrative becomes a set-piece centred around a remote farmhouse and the suspicious characters who inhabit it. The plot seems fairly straightforward, almost a slasher movie with a few brief snippets of unpleasant gore, but then it throws in a twist straight out of left field which had me reeling. What a surprise! What quality writing!
Yeah, I'm not going to get too carried away here, but MIDNIGHT FEAR is a lovely little surprise for fans of the genre: a tense, tightly-plotted little movie with an intriguing script, good acting, and an extremely downbeat climax. Apart from Carradine, we get fun performances from the likes of Craig Wasson (BODY DOUBLE) - who relishes his bad guy role - and twitchy, crazed Page Fletcher, giving the best acting job as the former asylum inmate. Altogether I found it to be a little gem of a film, so why not see what you think?
After the first half hour, the narrative becomes a set-piece centred around a remote farmhouse and the suspicious characters who inhabit it. The plot seems fairly straightforward, almost a slasher movie with a few brief snippets of unpleasant gore, but then it throws in a twist straight out of left field which had me reeling. What a surprise! What quality writing!
Yeah, I'm not going to get too carried away here, but MIDNIGHT FEAR is a lovely little surprise for fans of the genre: a tense, tightly-plotted little movie with an intriguing script, good acting, and an extremely downbeat climax. Apart from Carradine, we get fun performances from the likes of Craig Wasson (BODY DOUBLE) - who relishes his bad guy role - and twitchy, crazed Page Fletcher, giving the best acting job as the former asylum inmate. Altogether I found it to be a little gem of a film, so why not see what you think?