lastliberal This is not going down as one of the all-time greats. Hey, I was just looking for a Danny Trejo fix until Machete comes out. He played a don't-give-a-damn cop here that was not as raw as I usually see him.His partner, before she transferred to Homicide, was the ever luscious Roselyn Sanchez, who plays Elena on "Without a Trace." She is the feature of this movie, except for, of course Nightstalker and his ever-present buddy, Demon. I only mention them in passing as they are the main characters. They really don't do much. Everything is pretty much off-camera here and the movie deserved no more that a PG-13 rating for the violence. There was no sexuality, despite the MPAA claim. I doubt they even watched it as they would be immediately put off by the Death Metal music and the absolutely irritating camera work that was supposed to show what the Nightstalker was seeing and feeling as he operated high on crack. I suppose that was the intention; it was just plain irritating. Maybe they though the Satanic symbols were too much for the little ones, and they didn't want to be accused of offending someone's religion. Who knows? I got my Trejo fix, and got to see Sanchez (always fully clothed), so who cares.Danny Trejo was a co-producer of this film. Tood bad he didn't remember his other 138 films and give us more reason to watch.

Killer_Romance2 There are a lot of reviewers that pointed out a lot of things that I would write about on this movie. I noticed a few errors in certain scenes.Not only Richard's capture was altered, and the outline was supposed to be his story, but instead the story is about a beautiful and smart but strained female cop, Gabriella Martinez (the lovely Roselyn Sanchez), fighting her way to seek approval against deigned Detectives Mayberry (Evan Dexter Parke), and Elliot (Derek Hamilton) who were giving this poor chick hell, whilst minding her two Brothers, with her child-like mother (whom we don't see half way though the film)had lost her mind during her husband's death a year ago was a bit cliché. I also can not understand what happened to her two brothers when the Night Stalker struck out in the Martinez household? Anyone who reads the Philip Carlo book knows that the Night Stalker was a vicious killer with a very short temper if anyone retaliates him, so when Martinez objects to him during a confrontational showdown, you would expect him to lose it to the extreme and beat her to a pulp, but all this Actor (Bret Roberts) does is just hold a knife to her throat and impose threats, especially the hooker; Roxanne Day as Cherry called him a "Pu$$y" earlier. And Richard Ramirez does not have long hair until around 1988, but in the year 1985, he had loose dishevelling curls on his head, but the portrayed appearance and physical characteristics of the plausible Bret Roberts really does look like Ramirez at most angles if not close enough, unlike the laughable, unrelated Gregory Norman Cruz from Manhunt search for the NightStalker - so that was an improvement. It was more lively than Manhunt Search for the NightStalker, but also like this one, it is not accurate to the 'real-life' situations of the true-life case, then again neither was Manhunt. Ever heard of a Reporter not caring about her ragging boss on 'T.V. ratings' and keeping her mouth shut about 'rare' shoe prints found at the scene of a crime? And twisting the story to make Mayor Diane Feinstein never mentioned anything about Avia tennis shoes to throw the whole investigation to a disarray? Both movies failed to deliver why the Nightstalker IS the most terrifying Serial Killer of the last century. Not that it's just about satanism, but people in all classes, and racial communities felt terrorised because the victims were sundries of ethical backgrounds and all walks of life, the gender of the victims did not matter either. No Serial Killer with stealth attacked anyone in their sleep before which is the most vulnerable situation than being snatched off the street. The summer heat was unbearable, the panic was insurmountable and many people stayed up late and soon their mind is playing tricks to think every sound or movement was him, even if it was the figment of their imagination, it maybe the Stalker. Slasher movies like 'a Nightmare on Elm Street' on home video was burgeoning in 1985, that made people even in the youth culture to think 'hey! We got a madman out there that also kills people while they are sleeping in our city' - and that is what also fuels the paranoia uproar, and California feeling fear. That is what both movies failed to produce. To take us back to that scary Summer that labelled the Night Stalker as the most Terrifying Serial Killer in US history. The Timing was so right at this era.In my opinion, the movie gives a predictable plot even if it wants to be a fictionalised tale of the real-life case. I know the darker side of the drug culture was popular in the 80's, but not EVERYONE was a crack head, this particular decade was about some people being health conscious and good well-being like fame, breakin the movie, and flash dance with leg warmers, what happened to that? Including the clothes of the actors looked too modern for that decade, what happened to bat-winged jackets and pixie boots, or Richard's leather jacket? There were many detectives on this nightstalker case. However, this time the original Detectives on the 'real-life case', Frank Salerno, and Gil Carrilo are absent. And Detective Mayberry as a black guy should have cherry curls like in 'coming to America of Eddie Murphy' not a bald head - that was very 1998 and so was Elliot's haircut. Only Danny Trejo is the best underrated actor, whom I recognised back 'from Dusk til Dawn' . In relation to the scenes, Richard did not act like a hunchback, and is a lyrical and articulate communicator and writer, so what's with the misspelled words at the scene of a crime? The dialogue of the Night Stalker was minimised to "DON'T LOOK AT ME" and "DO YOU LOVE Satan? SWEAR TO Satan YOU B1TCH!" which sound's like Mark Walberg's Boogie Nights reminder of 'WHO'S YOUR DADDY?" And Satan looks like the monster from the music drum and bass award winning music video, Come to Daddy from Aphex Twin - do I sense a trend here? If you love a good laugh at what silly movie makers do for cash to make a profit rather than a true story, then go see it. I dare you!P.S. Look out for deleted scene on DVD "the Berry on the Vine" with z-rated Tarantino-style story of Det. Elliot's philosophy "there was this guy and he was walking thought the F@CKing jungle...and a tiger chases him...and he picks a berry from a vine as he is hanging there and feels ALIVE (the most magical satanic word), and I feel like that when I get close to that son of a b!tch I feel alive" but as I watched the scene I was thinking - HOW DID THE STORY GET OUT? TWO HUNGRY TIGERS AND ONE GUY?!? You decide and explain it to me?

ace_pilot16 One night I was home alone and figured "hey, nice change to go rent a horror movie !".I was actually thinking of taking some jap horror movie but instead I made the big mistake of taking this awful excuse for a horror!!! Don't ask me what I was thinking 'cause I'm still figuring that out myself !.Now let me tell you that I have never heard of this whole "nightstalker" phenomenon before, so I wasn't looking for a serial killer biography,and I don't know how close to the truth this was.But I guess the box looked promising so I took this one, something I would soon regret ! Well,the first killing scene was pretty nicely done.But from that part onward the movie totally slides downward and fails to keep any form of suspense.Instead, those " say you love Satan " lines sounded so dumb I already wrote the movie off.And then you have all these flashy moments which I suppose were made for atmosphere but they only end up being annoying.But the the dumb and boring ending was really the nail in the coffin.Even to this day I'm cursing myself for picking the wrong movie!Don't make the same mistake I made people !!!!!!!!!!!

Kristine This movie was horrible. I mean, now all these murders happened just a couple days after I was born, so, I wouldn't know the story. But I know that they probably over embellished. I wasn't happy with the movie, I hope I can get my $4.00 back from "Hollywood Video".2/10