Vomitron_G I just saw "Night Screams" as part of an (obscure) slasher double bill with "Graduation Day" (1981). At least "Graduation Day" wanted to be a slasher. This, "Night Screams", I don't know what it wants to be. I do know it wants to be more clever but it ends up being a dumber movie all the same. A couple of escaped convicts find a hiding place in the basement of a house where a teenager on medication decides to have a party with his friends because his parents aren't home. There's bad music, bad sex, bad acting and eventually a few bad killings. On a technical level, it's not better or worse made than "Graduation Day". The latter at least played it by the early 80's slasher textbook and delivers as such a film. "Night Screams" plays it by the late 80's slasher textbook - not that the rules are much different, really - but manages to dumb things down to an almost intolerable level. Even with nada suspense or tension this time and the kills themselves aren't memorable either. The only mildly amusing aspect was the stupid twist at the end. It's such a typical conclusion, not at all original and you can see it coming from a mile away. But at least the filmmakers watched enough slasher flicks to get that thing right. Still, even if you're an avid slasher fan, I don't think you'll get too excited over this flick.

Scarecrow-88 David seems to have such a bright future. He is the star running back on his high school football team, offered a scholarship to play for Oklahoma. He's got plenty of girls wanting to jump his bones if he so desires. Yet, we can see that without his pills(for "hyperactivity"), David isn't easy to be around, prone, as his mother says, to violent outbursts, rubbing his head as if a migraine was about to rumble his skull a loose. Two escaped lunatics, led by the sadistic Snake(John Hines), kill police officers, a cook and his wife at a diner, soon finding themselves at the home of David's parents, waiting inside the wine cellar as a prom party commences upstairs. Joni(Megan Wyss)is David's girlfriend, very thin-skinned and sensitive to any negativity offered her way. David's friends aren't that fond of her and Joni can sense that they would prefer him dating someone else. Lisa(Janette Caldwell)is the only high school girl who treats Joni with any class. Meanwhile, a serial killer is picking off David's friends one at a time as the escaped crazies seem idle in the wine cellar until the time for which they could go on the attack.Director Allen Plone drags out the opening in tedious fashion, incorporating a lot of footage from the slasher GRADUATION DAY, this movie a couple is watching intently before being dispatched by a kid who uses a butcher knife, playing a piano tune shortly afterward. He later adds footage from pornos as extra filler. By 1987, the slasher genre was on the decline, and movies like NIGHT SCREAMS were just polluting an already worn premise regarding a psychopath destroying teenagers using various weapons applied in other films before this one. The ax to the head, death using a sauna with a trapped victim inside, electrocution in a hot tub, butcher knife to the back and torso, strangulation, fireplace poker, etc. Even the "escaped loonies" sub plot is old hat and shopworn, and, to tell you the truth, there were times where I almost forgot about them even being in the movie. The best scene, to me anyway, is the gratuitous blood shed of the diner murders as Snake just goes berserk, shooting everything in sight, before finding himself locked away in the wine cellar, just a few other scenes remaining of any worth featuring this character. Hines has this hilarious scene where he's rambling off some dialogue while pouring water over his face that should tickle the funny bone, he's not exactly a Shakespearian actor or anything. Joseph Paul Manno, as David, spends an awful lot of time either sulking or angry. No nudity except for the porno footage, with characters in NIGHT SCREAMS mainly kissing and groping. The identity of the killer will be of no surprise, I think, particularly to those who have seen any number of these kinds of slasher fare.

dead_dudeINthehouse NIGHT SCREAMS is underrated in the slasher genre. The premise works: Three escaped convicts head to a mansion where a teen party is taking place. These teens start to disappear one by one (ok they are brutally murdered). Later it's revealed that the escaped convicts had little responsability with the murders. Shocking!The plot is a combination of the SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE and the 1982's classic ALONE IN THE DARK. NIGHT SCREAMS deserves a chance, watch it with low expectations and you'll have a good time! 3/10 -Terrible but tries to stand out of the garbage"Welcome to Fright Night!...for real"

brandonsites1981 Little known and little seen slasher film really isn't all that bad, but suffers from a virtually non-existent plot and poorly developed characterizations. Still, the actors are very likeable, the premise is better then most, and the film features tons of 80's style and cheese, plus it's just so much fun to watch.The film deals with three escaped and murderous convicts who seek refuge in a mansion unbeknowest to a group of teenagers who are partying upstairs. As the teenagers start to disappear and be murdered, so do the convicts. So the big question is who is behind all these murders?Megan Wyss is impressive in her first feature considering what little script and character she is given to work with and the film has just been re-released.Unrated; contains Extreme Violence, Profanity, Nudity, Teen Drinking, and Strong Sexual Content.