I love how the IMDB for this says "the debut of Kate Alexander" Yeah! Because it was basically everybody's debut! And also for a lot of them, their only film ever.
Night Feeder is a super Z grade slasher that no one has ever heard of. Its amateur to the true definition, which we have seen a few times now on the blog, and the movie really looks, sounds, and feels like it. As I may have said before, these can be divisive, a lot comes down to tone and atmosphere...
Night Feeder has main character reporter Jean in a city where young women's bodies are turning up with their brains sucked out of the heads. She wants to write a piece on the news and begins to investigate, meets a charisma-less police guy Alonso, and gets sucked into the story.
It cannot just be that, and so what it does instead is have a lot of weird nonsense shit whth the town blaming stuff on a weird band that sings exclusively about suicide, and having a weird subplot about prostitutes. I tried to find the band on YouTube but I can't so you will just have to trust me, it's great. Also great and jarring is the strange electronic score by one of the films 3 credited directors.
Sometimes you walk the line and find something which is yes Z grade but scratches the itch in just the right way. I give it 4 stars.
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