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Fragasso originally wanted a psychosexual giallo flick, but the evil producer then hired the vile Mattei to finish shooting the gore scenes and slasher sequences, which would make it possible for the film to ride on the coattails of the popular Freddy Kruger movies and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. To this day, the master is still convinced that this ruined his masterpiece, but let’s just acknowledge that, due to its absurdity, Night Killer wouldn’t have been a functional movie anyway even if it had stuck to the original screenplay. With additional production touches, Night Killer offers a nonstop WTF spectacle. Horrible acting (even more obvious in the numerous sloppy one-shot scenes) is combined with atrocious dialogue. Individual sequences are strung together seemingly at random, partly with the aim of confusing viewers and concealing the final denouement, which most will figure out immediately after all of the characters have been introduced. Despite all of the anti-efforts, the film is pervaded by an aura of perversely twisted misogyny, ensuring that viewers will be disturbed by this thoroughly insipid and frequently ridiculous work. (08.01.2023)

Otra de las anomalías del director-guionista Claudio Fragasso (y su esposa Rossella Drudi), que se puede ver con el asombro silencioso de cómo alguien podría haber sido serio. Night Killer con su título en italiano (Non aprite quella porta 3) parodia La matanza de Texas y con el aspecto del asesino parodia la Pesadilla en Elm Street, pero no se preocupen, la trama sigue su propio camino dudoso. La trama es tan absurda e ingenua que en su esencia resulta francamente divertida. Y quien piense que algunas de las escenas de asesinato parecen superfluas en el contexto de la película, tiene razón: Bruno Mattei fue contratado en la posproducción para aderezar la falta de gore de la película, y por eso rodó algunas escenas extra. Las interpretaciones son terribles hasta el punto de ser francamente divertidas (el exagerado Peter Hooten es, por supuesto, absolutamente brillante). Para los amantes de las películas «so bad it's good», Night Killer es imprescindible, al igual que la sobrecocinada Troll 2 de Fragasso del mismo año. (14.01.2020)

The Italian horror movie Night Killer is quite trashy. They made a horror movie that just blatantly ripped off anything it wanted and yet, in the end, still made something that is somewhat original. Although the acting performances are truly awful, it comes across as an utterly ridiculous movie, underneath there is a story that is not completely straightforward, so it has the right spirit at least. (26.05.2020)