Search - Night Fright on DVD

You Can't Run In Go-Go Boots

Gary F. Taylor | Biloxi, MS USA | 06/17/2009

(1 out of 5 stars)

"Okay, it's like this. A super-secret government rocket experiment crashes, but the feds won't let the local sheriff see it. Not long after there's a really nasty murder down on lover's lane. Could the two things be connected? In the meantime, and in spite of the sheriff's warnings, a group of teenagers decide to have a dance-and-make-out party down at the lake. Have you ever tried to run from a monster while you are wearing go-go boots?



Released in 1967, NIGHT FRIGHT, also known as FRIGHT NIGHT, is the sort of movie where everybody gets in the car at night, and then we see car traveling in the daylight, and when they get out of the car its night again. The teenagers aren't really teenagers, the actors aren't really actors, there's no script or plot to speak of, and the monster looks like a cast-off ape costume with a kinda-sorta lizard mask on top. Sure, John Agar is in it, but his big claim to fame is that he was once Mr. Shirley Temple, and that's all you can say about him one way or another.



My thought: people who watch this movie have way too much time on their hands, and watching this movie will make that time seem way longer than it already does. Skip it.



GFT, Amazon Reviewer"

It scared me... NOT

B. E Jackson | Pennsylvania | 02/07/2008

(2 out of 5 stars)

"Alright, what can you expect from a movie that came out in the late 60's? Not much.



Watching this movie was basically the same as watching an early episode of the Brady Bunch. You know you used to watch that show.



My biggest problem with the movie is, of course, it wasn't scary at all. What WAS scary was just how flat-out terrible the sound of the movie is. I could barely understand anything the characters were saying. Everyone's mumbling horribly.



The picture quality isn't much better. Everything again looks like the year it came out, and nothing was done to improve the quality in any way. Not that anyone would wanna come along and improve a DVD movie that's not any fun to watch in the first place.



I did like the variety of sound effects and music that was used throughout the movie. Of course, it didn't match a "scary bad guy hiding the woods" because most of it was just early Pink Floyd-like sound effects and delicate King Crimson-sounding flutes.



I did like how the teenagers tried to act like rebels against the cops. One of them threatened to "play loud records and dance the night away" haha.



However, that one song that kept playing during the scene where all the teenagers were laughably dancing outside in the woods was brilliant! It sounded like the Beach Boys a little bit. Really catchy song that one was. You don't hear party music like that anymore. Now it's all trashy unmemorable noise.



It really was hysterical watching the teens dance around in the woods in the dark listening to music. I loved it. They were taking it very seriously too, haha.



Overall, yeah, it's not scary, and not worth watching, unless for the great music of the late 60's."