PHENOMENALITY: *uncanny*
MYTHICITY: *poor*
FRYEAN MYTHOS: *drama*
CAMPBELLIAN FUNCTIONS: *psychological*
Just
as high-schooler Billy is thinking about dating a cute girl he’s
known since childhood, he gets some possible Graduate-allure from
sexy twenty-something Lisa (Shannon Tweed, a little prior to her
string of nineties softcore nuggets). Unfortuuately, not only is Lisa
a call girl, she’s summarily murdered by “the Call Girl Killer,”
a serial murderer who just happens to be (a) a Satanist, complete
with devil mask, and (b) one of Billy’s high-school teachers.
This
smorgasbord of jarring conceits should by itself show that NIGHT
VISITOR (a singularly meaningless title) doesn’t exactly have all
its ducks in a row, which keeps it from being even a decent
formula-thriller. Though I’ve seen many worse films, VISITOR is
still among the duller offerings of its kind. In terms of
categorization, both the teacher and his equally Satanist brother
(Michael J. Pollard) conform to the “bizarre crimes” trope, but
since they’re sacrificing hookers for Satan, they don’t seem to
line up with the “perilous psychos” as much as with “weird
families and societies.” Indeed, the two brothers are both a weird
family AND a weird society!
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