![]() ![]() A killer is lose in the daytime in NIGHT KILLER. If I told you it was from the director responsible for TROLL 2 (and from the same year, too) with additional material by the man behind such trash gems as ZOMBIE CREEPING FLESH (1980) and RATS: NIGHT OF TERROR (1984) would you reach for the remote or a gun? The script is based on a comic-book by Gabriel Campisi who directed The Law episode of The Alien Agenda: Endangered Species (1997) and has since gone on to produce several of Jared Cohn’s films.How to describe NIGHT KILLER? Hmmm. There is also Patrick Muldoon, a regular B movie trouper, as one of the deputies, and Marina Sirtis, Counselor Troi from tv’s Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-94), as the grandmother.ĭirector Jared Cohn first appeared for The Asylum with Born Bad (2011) and has become a prolific director for them with the likes of Bikini Spring Break (2012), Hold Your Breath (2012), 12/12/12 (2012), Atlantic Rim (2013), Jailbait (2014), Bound (2015), Evil Nanny (2016), King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (2017), Alien Predator (2018), Atlantic Rim 2 (2018) and Shark Season (2020), while moving out on his own with Buddy Hitchins (2015), Hulk Blood Tapes (2015), The Horde (2016), Death Pool (2017), The Domicile (2017), Halloween Pussy Trap Kill Kill (2017), Devil’s Revenge (2018) and Swim (2021). Here he holds the centre of the show with an effortless and affable ease as the figure of friendly authority. In the lead is Eric Balfour, an actor I have maintained for some time is long overdue much better parts than he gets. The film comes with a much better cast than usually fills out the average Asylum film. The wolf effects are passable, although the CGI of a giant-sized wolf is very so-so. There is nothing particularly notable or exceptional about any of it. On the other hand, take away the attention-grabbing title and all that you have is a B movie about werewolf attacks in a small town before the revelation of werewolf clan wars and a magically empowered werewolf hunter. If nothing else, this is a film that gets you in the door with its title alone. Santos as Samantha, the resurrected Little Red Riding Hood The Little Red Riding Hood we get has more in common with the resurrected heroines in The Chosen One: Legend of the Raven (1998) or Pussy Kills (2017) than she ever does the character from the fairytale. In fact, what we have is less a twisted take on Little Red Riding Hood and more of a standard werewolf film. However, while the title and poster suggest we are in for something more like a zombie Little Red Riding Hood, what we get is merely a ritual that turns her into a magically empowered werewolf slayer. There is a Little Red Riding Hood and to make the ‘dead rotting’ part of the title accurate she has been raised from the dead. There is not much of the original fairytale in the film – there are werewolves, there is a grandmother who now comes steeped in witchcraft lore rather than sits in her cottage waiting to become a victim of the wolf. You get the impression that it is an occasion where someone came up with the title first and then decided to make a film to go with it after. Little Dead Rotting Hood is another of these Asylum fairytales. Amid this, The Asylum jumped in with their own cheap fairytale adaptations that include Grimm’s Snow White (2012), Jack the Giant Killer (2013), Sleeping Beauty (2014) and a standout horror version of Hansel & Gretel (2013). The mid-2000s brought a spate of big screen fairytale films with the likes of Red Riding Hood (2011), Mirror Mirror (2012), Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) and Maleficent (2014). Zombies (2012) and Age of the Hobbits (2012), among others. ![]() It is a strategy they call ‘mockbusters’ and has produced titles such as Snakes on a Train (2006), I Am Omega (2007), Transmorphers (2007), Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls (2008), The Day the Earth Stopped (2008), The 18 Year Old Virgin (2009), Paranormal Entity (2009), Battle of Los Angeles (2011), Abraham Lincoln vs. The Asylum is a company specialising in low-budget films that come out mimicking the titles of big-budget, high-profile releases in the hopes that people won’t look too closely or notice the difference. Samantha then makes a return from the dead, having been granted powers by her grandmother that allow her to fight the werewolves. As Adam tries to trap and kill the wolf he believes responsible, he comes to realise that what he is dealing with is werewolves. It is discovered that these are being caused by wolves, believed to be a new species. He is then faced with a sudden spate of deaths all over town. The sheriff Adam is called in to investigate the grandmother’s death and Samantha’s disappearance. In the small town of Stillwater, Pennsylvania, Samantha is buried by her grandmother in a ritual, before the grandmother slits her own wrists. ![]()
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