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Nightwing (film)
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Nightwing
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Directed by
Arthur Hiller
Produced by
Martin Ransohoff
Written by
Martin Cruz Smith
 Steve Shagan
Bud Shrake
Starring
Nick Mancuso
David Warner
Kathryn Harrold
Music by
Henry Mancini
Cinematography
Charles Rosher, Jr.
Edited by
John C. Howard
Distributed by
Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)
June 22, 1979

Running time
105 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Nightwing is a 1979 American horror film directed by Arthur Hiller. The screenplay by Martin Cruz Smith, Steve Shagan, and Bud Shrake is based on the 1977 novel of the same title by Smith. Its tagline is "Day belongs to man, but night is theirs!" It was one of many so-called Jaws rip-offs that were popular in the late '70s and early '80s, including Orca: The Killer Whale (1977), Tentacles (1977), The Pack (1977), Piranha (1978), Alligator (1980) and Great White (1980). It also was Hiller's only horror film.


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1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Critical reception
5 References
6 External links

Plot[edit]
Youngman Duran, a deputy on a Hopi Indian reservation in New Mexico, begins to investigate a series of mysterious cattle mutilations. Abner Tasupi, an ancient and embittered medicine man who raised Youngman after his parents died, tells him he has cast a spell to end the world that very night, but Youngman assumes he simply is babbling while under the influence of datura root. The following morning, Youngman finds Abner's bloodless body on the floor of his shack, and nearby he discovers a dead shepherd and most of his flock.
Tribal Council chairman Walker Chee has discovered a stratum of oil shales in Maskai Canyon, the most sacred ground in the tribe's domain. Walker is dynamiting the caves in an effort to unleash oil, and is planning to sell the rights to process them to the tycoon Roger Piggott of Peabody Oil. Walker is desperate to keep word of the attacks from leaking to the media before he completes the deal.
Although common sense tells him otherwise, Youngman's faith in tribal beliefs and superstitions leads him to suspect the unexplained deaths may be connected to the spell Abner claimed he cast. British scientist Philip Payne is certain they are the work of vampire bats infected with bubonic plague. As they spread throughout the area, swarming through a missionary group's campsite and infecting everyone in their path, Philip and Youngman join forces with Anne Dillon, a young white medical student who runs a ramshackle clinic on the reservation and is in love with Youngman, to track the bats to their lair and destroy them.
Cast[edit]
##Nick Mancuso as Youngman Duran
##David Warner as Phillip Payne
##Kathryn Harrold as Anne Dillon
##Stephen Macht as Walker Chee
##Ben Piazza as Roger Piggott
##Strother Martin as Selwyn
##Charles Hallahan as Henry
##George Clutesi as Abner Tasupi
Production[edit]
The bats were the creation of special effects artist Carlo Rambaldi, [1] who previously had worked on King Kong and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
The film was shot on location in Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and [Cubero] in New Mexico.
The soundtrack includes "Lucille" by Kenny Rogers and "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" by Crystal Gayle.
Critical reception[edit]
The movie failed critically and financially. Vincent Canby of The New York Times called the film "not very horrifying" and thought "it looks as if it had been put together from a child's instruction book." He added, "The screenplay . . . is terrible and the special effects third-rate." [2]
Time Out New York said the film "never really takes off" and added, "Hiller's direction simply plods to a corny and unsatisfactory ending after getting bogged down in subplots concerning whale-oil prospectors, Indian religious mumbo-jumbo, and inter-tribal rivalries." [3]
Channel 4 observed, "Quite why Hiller was selected to direct this suspense shocker is the most interesting thing about the project. A film-maker who has made a speciality of showing reverence for platitudes has no jurisdiction over a piece of schlock nonsense about bat-killers in the Arizona desert." [4]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Nightwing at Moria.co.nz
2.Jump up ^ New York Times review
3.Jump up ^ Time Out New York review
4.Jump up ^ Channel 4 review
External links[edit]
##Nightwing at the Internet Movie Database


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Nightwing (novel)
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 First edition (publ. Norton)
Nightwing is a 1977 thriller novel by Martin Cruz Smith, who adapted it for a 1979 film with the same title directed by Arthur Hiller.
Plot summary[edit]
A disgruntled, disenfranchised Hopi shaman sets out to "end the world" by way of a ritual invocation of the Hopi god of death. Shortly after his mutilated corpse is discovered by a skeptical Tewa deputy the body count begins to rise as more strangely slashed and bloodied victims are found.
The book has many elements: part love triangle; part Native American case study; part supernatural thriller. It was the author's own tribal ancestry which inspired the writing of this fictionalized anthropological mini-survey.


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The Pack (1977 film)
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The Pack
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Directed by
Robert Clouse
Produced by
Fred Weintraub
Written by
Robert Clouse
Starring
Joe Don Baker
Hope Alexander-Willis
Richard B. Shull
R.G. Armstrong
Music by
Lee Holdridge
Cinematography
Robert Woolsey
Distributed by
Warner Bros.
Release date(s)
November 20, 1977

Running time
95 min.
Country
United States
Language
English
The Pack is a 1977 horror film about a pack of abandoned dogs who turn against humans by killing them for food at Seal Island.


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2 Release
3 See also
4 External links
5 References

Plot[edit]


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The movie opens with a horse grazing in a small clearing in the middle of the forest. He is alerted by an unknown and unseen presence stalking him, which causes him to gallop for the protection of the trees. He is followed by some unknown enemies who are chasing him, before they surround him and prepare to attack.
Meanwhile, a boy and his parents, the last of the summer tourists, are forced to leave their dog behind because they knew that they would be forced to send him back to the dog pound. Later that day, he is found by a pack of feral dogs, most of whom were abandoned pets belonging to summer tourists. Their leader, a massive golden-haired mongrel, immediately accepts the dog into his pack.
Jerry (Joe Don Baker) has moved to Seal Island with his new wife, Millie, and their two sons. They also brought along their family dog, a German Shepherd named Riley. While dropping off some garbage at the island junkyard, Jerry's dog chases after a rabbit into the trees, but is attacked by an unknown creature and is injured. When Jerry goes back to see what it was that attacked Riley, he discovered that it was a feral dog, who had apparently also stole the rabbit that his dog was chasing. He immediately sent word to the other residents on the island, including the old hermit Mr. McMinnimee, to keep a watchful eye out for the dog and kill it if they ever see it again.
McMinnimee, who lives in a cabin alone with his German Shepherd Shazah, soon learns of the wild dog and returns to his home. When a storm hit the island one evening, Shazah starts up a riot and tries to break out. The old man, armed with his rifle, opens the door to his cabin and tries to find out who is intruding onto his property. Shazah bolts out into the front yard, but is suddenly attacked by the golden-haired mongrel and several other feral dogs. McMinnimee is too late to save his dog from the pack, though he manages to shoot and kill a collie, one of the pack members. As he tries to secure the door and windows to his house, the dogs break through one of the windows and attack the old man, killing him.
The following morning, while relaxing in her new house that Jerry had built for her, Millie notices that something is scaring their poultry. She goes outside and discovers the same mongrel that Jerry saw the other day lurking near the poultry yard. She tries to drive it off, but the dog growls at her and attacks, forcing Millie to seek refuge in her Volkswagen car. As the rest of the pack surround the car and try to break in, Jerry arrives and drives the dogs off, killing a Labrador retriever with his shotgun. He takes Millie to town, drops her off at one of the abandoned houses, and warns his neighbor Cobb of the pack. While Cobb leaves to warn the other islanders of the dogs, Jerry picks up his sons and takes them back to the house.
Meanwhile, one of the islanders, Dodge moves to the island with his son Tommy, a cook Lois, and his wife Marge. The day after their arrival, Dodge urges his son Tommy to go for a walk, and Lois goes along with him. During their walk through the forest, Tommy hears the pack of dogs howling nearby and starts running for his life. Lois chases after Tommy, but quickly loses him and is forced to seek refuge in an abandoned barn where the dogs sleep. Tommy runs through the forest, the pack in close pursuit, but soon trapped at the edge of a cliff towering above the ocean. With the savage dogs closing in, he jumps off the cliff and falls to his death.
Lois seeks refuge in the abandoned barn just as a storm hits the island. She lays down in one of the stalls and falls asleep, but when she wakes up, she discovers that the dogs have returned. The dogs growl menacingly before they attack Lois and kill her.
Meanwhile, Jerry and Cobb manage to warn Walter, Dodge, and Marge about the dogs roaming the island and bring them back to the house. But when Jerry arrives at McMinnimee's cabin to warn him, he believes something is wrong when the old man does not respond. He then discovers the dead bodies of Shazah and the collie. After searching the side of the cabin, he finds the old man's lifeless body inside having already been attacked and mauled by the pack. Jerry then leaves Mcinnimee's cabin just managing to avoid the pack who had been stalking him. He returns to the house and tells Lois and the others of what had happened. He even states that most of the dogs were once tourists' pets, but were abandoned to survive on the island a few weeks earlier. Dodge, concerned and outraged that his son Tommy is still out lost on the island, persuades Jerry to find him. Jerry, accompanied by Dodge and Cobb, head out to the abandoned barn and find the dogs running away. Dodge, armed with a rifle, shoots and kills a dalmatian as the pack runs off. Inside the barn, the men find Lois' mangled body lying in a corner, but do not find Tommy.
Dodge, believing that his son is dead, steals Jerry's jeep and drives off in pursuit of the dogs, with Jerry and Cobb following him in Cobb's truck. Dodge soon encounters the pack near one of the abandoned houses, but before he can even shoot at them, the dogs attack him and tear him to shreds. Jerry and Cobb soon find Dodge and drive off the dogs with their truck, but Dodge succumbs to his injuries and dies the next day. After failing to send a signal out to the Coast Guard on the radio, Jerry orders Millie, Walter, and Cobb to find whatever weapons they can use against the pack, but the only weapons they can find are Jerry's shotgun and a handful of cartridges, a couple of sticks, an umbrella, and a few knives.
Later that same day, Jerry, his family, and the few remaining inhabitants find themselves under siege by the pack. Later that afternoon, the mongrel and four other dogs from the pack launch an attack on the house, trying to break in through the windows. Jerry, Millie, their sons, and Cobb struggle to hold them off. Two of the dogs, a Doberman Pinscher and an Irish setter, manage to break inside the house, but Jerry kills the setter with his shotgun and Walter and Jerry's dog Riley drive the Doberman out of the house. The rest of the dogs flee after failing to break through the windows.
Realizing that the dogs will return for another assault, Jerry tells his family, Marge, Cobb, and Walter to board up the windows and doors of the house. Later that night, the group carries Dodge's body down to the docks and place him in a boat, pushing it out to sea to prevent the pack from trying to get at it. Knowing that the dogs will be back, they then quickly return to the house and lock themselves inside.
The following morning, Walter wakes up and hears the sound of a motorboat near the docks. He grabs Jerry's shotgun and runs down to the docks to find a small group of people in a motorboat several yards out at sea. He fires a shot in the air, trying to signal them to land at the docks, but the people believe he is threatening them and drive away. Walter turns around, only to find the dogs standing in his way. He fights them off with the gun, but the mongrel and two other dogs quickly overpower him and knock him off the deck into the water.
Meanwhile, Jerry, having heard the sound of the shotgun being fired and realizing that Walter has headed down to the docks, takes his jeep and drives down there, only to find him surrounded by the pack. As Jerry drives his vehicle onto the dock, the dogs turn their attention towards Jerry and charge him. The moving jeep runs over the majority of the pack, killing a gray terrier mongrel and forcing the rest of the dogs to retreat into the forest. Jerry pulls Walter out of the water and drives him back to the house.
Tired of waiting for help, Jerry orders Millie to take Marge, Riley, Walter, and their sons out to the docks, while he and Cobb would try to finish off the pack. While Cobb waits quietly in Jerry's jeep, Jerry lures the mongrel and the remainder of his pack into the house. As soon as the dogs are all inside, Cobb closes the door behind them, pours several bucket-loads of gasoline on the walls, and sets the house on fire with a torch. Jerry then climbs up the ladder to the attic and tries to raise it to prevent the dogs from following him, but the mongrel leaps on top of the ladder and manages to reach the top. Jerry holds him off for a short while, but as the flames reach the floor of the attic, he pushes the dog back and jumps through a window, sliding off the roof and lands on the grass below. The mongrel leaps out of the same window and springs at Jerry, but he misses his aim and is embedded on the sharpened end of a broken pipe.
Millie and the others return to the house and watch as the burning building explodes and collapses, killing all the dogs inside. They soon discover that one of the dogs, the same dog that was abandoned and had joined the pack a few days earlier, had apparently did not join the fate of his comrades because the rope he was tied to had been caught and tangled in a heavy branch. Realizing that the dog was apparently afraid and not as savage and aggressive as the other dogs, Jerry decides to try to tame it. Using some crackers, he feeds them one by one to the dog. The film ends as the dog starts licking Jerry's hand, apparently winning the trust of the man and becoming a pet again.
Release[edit]
The film was released theatrically in the United States by Warner Bros. in November 1977. The film's alternate title is The Long, Dark Night.
The film was given a belated VHS release by Warner Home Video in 1983. Although there's never been an official, retail DVD release, as of 2012 the film is available on MOD (Manufacture on Demand) DVD and as a digital download from Warner Archive.
See also[edit]
The Breed (2006 film)
External links[edit]
The Pack at IMDB
The Pack at the TCM Movie Database
References[edit]



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Tentacles (film)
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Tentacles
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Directed by
Oliver Hellman
Produced by
Ovidio G. Assonitis
 Enzo Doria
Written by
Steven W. Carabatsos
 Tito Carpi
 Jerome Max
 Sonia Molteni
Starring
John Huston
Shelley Winters
Bo Hopkins
Henry Fonda
Music by
Stelvio Cipriani
Cinematography
Roberto D'Ettorre Piazzoli
Edited by
Angelo Curi
Production
   company
American International Pictures
 Esse Ci Cinematografica
Samuel Z. Arkoff
Distributed by
American International Pictures
Release date(s)
25 February 1977
Running time
90 minutes
Country
Italy
 United States
Language
English
Budget
$750,000
Box office
$3,000,000[1]
Tentacles (Italian title: Tentacoli) is a 1977 Italian-American horror film directed by Ovidio G. Assonitis and starring John Huston, Shelley Winters, Bo Hopkins and Henry Fonda.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Release
5 Remake
6 References
7 External links

Plot[edit]
Ocean Beach, a seaside tourist resort, has come under attack by a giant octopus, which captures and devours human swimmers and boaters, picking the skeletons clean of flesh and bone marrow. Marine expert Will Gleason (Bo Hopkins) and crusading newspaper reporter Ned Turner (John Huston) suspect the construction of an underwater tunnel by the Trojan company, owned by Mr. Whitehead (Henry Fonda). Trojan has been using radio signals that have been "above regulated levels", somehow maddening the octopus and causing it to attack human beings. In the end, the octopus is killed by Gleason's pair of killer whales.
Cast[edit]
John Huston as Ned Turner
Shelley Winters as Tillie Turner
Bo Hopkins as Will Gleason
Henry Fonda as Mr. Whitehead, President of Trojan Construction
Delia Boccardo as Vicky Gleason
Cesare Danova as John Corey
Alan Boyd as Mike
Sherry Buchanan as Judy
Franco Diogene as Chuck
Marc Fiorini as Don
Helena Mäkelä as Jane's Mother
Claude Akins as Sheriff Robards
Alessandro Poggi
Roberto Poggi
Giancarlo Nacinelli
Consolato Marciano
Philip Dallas
Leonard Lightfoot
John White
William Van Raaphorst
Joanne Van Raaphorst
Patrick Mulvihill
Janet Myers
Kristin M. Brekke
Janet Raycraft
Kenneth Lundeen
Rita Real
Alan Scharf
Ross Gordon
Ron Shapiro
Joseph Johnson
George Montage as Deputy Jacobson
Production[edit]
The film was produced to capitalize on the success of Steven Spielberg's Jaws.[2]
The film's score was done by Italian composer Stelvio Cipriani, who scored the similarly Jaws-inspired films The Great Alligator and Piranha II: The Spawning around the same time. He later recycled many of the cues from Tentacles in his later score for Concorde Affaire '79.
Release[edit]
It was released theatrically in the United States by American International Pictures on 15 June 1977.
The film was released on DVD by MGM in 2005 as part of their Midnite Movies series. The disc was a double feature release, pairing the film with Empire of the Ants.
Remake[edit]
Monster is a similar film produced by The Asylum in 2008.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Richard Nowell, Blood Money: A History of the First Teen Slasher Film Cycle, Continuum, 2011, p. 257
2.Jump up ^ Tentacles at the MGM Archive
External links[edit]
Tentacles at the Internet Movie Database
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Monster (2008 film)
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Monster
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Directed by
Eric Forsberg
Produced by
David Michael Latt
David Rimawi
Paul Bales
Written by
Eric Forsberg
David Michael Latt
Starring
Yoshi Ando
 Sarah Lieving
 Shinichiro Shimizu
 Erin Sullivan
Distributed by
The Asylum
Release date(s)
January 15, 2008

Running time
90 minutes
Country
United States
 Japan
Language
English
 Japanese
Monster is a 2008 direct-to-DVD Japanese daikaiju film.
The film is a mockbuster created to capitalize on the release of Cloverfield. It was released direct-to-DVD on January 15, 2008.[1] Cloverfield was released theatrically three days later on January 18, 2008.


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2 Reception
3 See also
4 References
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Plot[edit]
The film takes place in Tokyo in 2003, where two reporters, Hana Izumi and Hyuga Kanata, have arrived to document unusual seismic disturbances that have been picked up around Tokyo. The disturbances are originally thought to be aftershocks left over from a supposed massive earthquake on the Kanto Fault that occurred two years previously, causing hundreds of thousands of casualties and several hundred billion dollars in damage(possibly referencing the real-life Fukuoka earthquake or the Miyagi earthquake), although careful analysis of the evidence suggests otherwise.
As time goes on, all of Tokyo begins to suffer from abnormal earth tremors similar to those registered in 2005. The tremors are found not to be caused by an earthquake, but by a gigantic octopus that has been dormant for centuries. It has since been awakened by mankind and now sees Tokyo as a new feeding-ground; the filmmakers document the catastrophe as it unfolds.
It starts as Hana and Hyuga are talking about filming Tokyo. The scene then switches to the interior of Hana's car as the two drive to LAX, to catch their flight to Tokyo. In Tokyo they rent a hotel room, and, the next day, Hyuga films Hana talking with the global warming minister. During the interview, an earthquake strikes and the scene again switches to the reporters in the basement of the environmental building. They find a survivor named Aoyagi, and as they flee, they hear the sounds of panic and plane engines from a tunnel.
Later, they find a mall, and another earthquake occurs. In the chaos, Aoyagi is impaled by a pole as the reporters flee in panic. Some small text appears on the screen saying that tape #3 was damaged. As the reporters run toward a mall they find a woman and her grandfather, and they eat and sleep, Hana not realizing she had left the camera turned on. Then, another earthquake begins and kills the grandfather as the woman tells the reporters to flee. They hear the mall explode as they run away and soon find a building which they enter. They have gone upstairs when the building suddenly collapses. The reporters survive, but the collapse damages the camera lens.
Night arrives and they see helicopters ready to save refugees, but a tentacle destroys them and proceeds to throw cars at the people, killing many of them. Panic ensues, and Hyuga abandons Hana. A tentacle slams into the ground where Hyuga is and he is wounded. Additionally, the camera's batteries run low. Hana cries for Hyuga as the crash of a tentacle hitting the ground is heard, ending the film, which indicates that the reporters were crushed by the monster and were among the thousands, if not millions, killed.
Reception[edit]
The few reviews of the film posted online have been extremely negative.[2][3] Scott Foy of Dread Central did an audio file parody of the "found footage" concept used by the movie: in this case, the file consists of Foy giving his thoughts on the movie while at the same time pretending to be slowly going insane due to the movie's abysmal quality; it culminates in him apparently jumping out of a window.[4] Foy would later state that some people actually thought his "insanity" was real[5] and would also name Monster the "Worst Direct To DVD Horror Movie of 2008" in a later podcast.[6]
See also[edit]
Cloverfield, another monster film released in the same year
Mega Shark Vs. Giant Octopus, a 2009 film by The Asylum that also features a giant octopus
Tentacles, a similar film released in 1977
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Stephenson, Hunter (2008-01-11). "Movie Trailer: Monster – The Asylum’s Cloverfield Knock-off". Slashfilm. Retrieved 2013-12-30.
2.Jump up ^ Paprocki, Matt (2008-01-24). "DVD Review: Monster (2008)". Blogcritics. Retrieved 2013-12-30.
3.Jump up ^ "Monster(2008)". Buried.com. 2008-02-01. Retrieved 2013-12-30.
4.Jump up ^ Barton, Steve; Foy, Scott (2008-01-17). "Monster (2008)". Dread Central. Retrieved 2013-12-30.
5.Jump up ^ Siebalt, Joshua (2008-01-22). "Dinner for Fiends: Fields of Clover". Dread Central. Retrieved 2013-12-30.
6.Jump up ^ Foy, Scott (2009-01-25). "Foycast V: 2008 Run Down!". Dread Central. Retrieved 2013-12-30.
External links[edit]
Official website
Monster at the Internet Movie Database


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