Different years for this movie exist on the internet, but one fun piece of trivia I found that keeps being repeated is that Texas Chainsaw Massacre was released in Italy under the title "Do Not Open That Door", with this movie then capitalizing on it and being named "Don't Open That Door 3".
Does that make this an unofficial part of the "Don't" series of films I was watching? Does this make it part of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre series? Does it make it both? I say yes. Let's look at it through eyes like that, shall we?
Well, no, we won't. But this movie is insane. In the beginning of the flick, a modern housewife has her husband leave her home. She immediately starts fondling her naked breasts in front of a mirror, and gets a obscene phone call from a killer. The killer is in the house of course, and thankfully the rape scene is not shown but rather alluded to later. The woman's reality is shattered, she hooks up with an abusive weirdo, and there's still a killer out there.
This movie is all sorts of off-kilter misogyny, full of weak exploited women and insane creepy men. Night Killer was directed by the guy who brought us the infamous Troll 2, and it feels like it. Not only that, but Bruno Mattei was also brought in to film additional gore scenes when the studio didn't deem it gory enough.
Night Killer is a pretty fucking over the top experience, and the acting, the effects, the pacing, are literally all over the place. If you wanted backstory about anyone, motivation, explanation, if you wanted this to make sense, please go look somewhere else. This movie is wall to wall fun for exactly that reason though, and it will leave an impression on you.
Night Killer is what became of the giallo style eventually, it got mixed with too much weirdness and amateur attempts at bloody horror that it got forgotten. But these weird in between films are a fucking hoot, and honestly, this is one I'd watch again. Ill give it 4 stars.
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