I binge drank and watched a couple Roy Scheider movies last night. This one sounded slasher adjacent, so of course I put it on. I also drew pictures of insects.
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Fuckin KICKASS poster, no joke.
Night Game follows police detective or whatever he is Roy Scheider as a serial killer is in town killing people. We pretty early on are seeing plenty of baseball scenes too, setting it up for us the audience that these will be linked somehow. Is this the slasher-like film with the most baseball scenes? Probably.
So we watch as they put the pieces together and a few more kills happen. It seems that the killer uses a hook and specifically targets young blonde women, and in the meantime in a creepy plot piece, Roy Scheider is dating a blonde who is young enough to be his daughter. Naturally, she gets targeted and its just about the time that Roy figured out who the killer is, and wham bam, thats the movie.
Not a movie with any legacy, this isn't one to satisfy everyone. The violence is taken down a notch, and its more of a tension murder mystery, but with all the baseball stuff, as well as the killer's face shown to us very early on, it cuts the tension to nothing. Then with the Roy Scheider character, he's not really likable and nothing much else happens in the movie, so you're left sorta wondering...who is this for? What is this, exactly?
I liked it enough though, it's not too long and it has plenty of kills, and it has some comedic parts (I mean you laugh at the movie, it's not like the movie is actually funny). I'll give it 3 stars.
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