Night Killer

Night Killer (Italian: Non aprite quella porta 3) is a 1990 Italian horror film directed by Claudio Fragasso. On its release in Italy, it was promoted as being part of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The film is not part of the series and bears little content from the previously released films.

Night Killer
Directed byClaudio Fragasso
Produced byFranco Gaudenzi[1]
Screenplay by
  • Claudio Fragasso
  • Rosella Drudi[2][3]
Story byClaudio Fragasso[1]
Starring
CinematographyAntonio Maccoppi[1]
Edited byGiovan Battista Mattei[1]
Production
company
Flora Film[1]
Distributed byC.R.C. Cin.ca Romana Cineproduzioni[2]
Release date
  • August 1990 (1990-08)
Running time
85 minutes[1]
CountryItaly[4]

Cast
  • Peter Hooten as Axel
  • Tara Buckman as Melanie
  • Richard Foster as Sherman
  • Mel Davis as Clark
  • Lee Lively as Dr. Willow
  • Tova Sardot as Clarissa

Production

After Fragsso finished the film, the producers hired his Bruno Mattei to shoot additional scenes of graphic gore before the films release in Italy.[5]

Style

Paul Zachary of Bloody Disgusting stated that the film combined elements of giallo and more straightforward slasher films.[3] Zachary described it as a "Franken-film" combining several bit and pieces of other related work.[3]

Release

Night Killer was first released in Italy in August 1990.[1] The film was released the same year that Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III was distributed in Italy and was promoted unofficially as a sequel in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise despite the plot not bearing any relation to the rest of the series.[3][6] The films Italian title, Non aprite quella porta 3 riffs on the Italian title for the Texas Chainsaw Massacre series.[6] The film was released on DVD and blu ray by Severin Films on June 25, 2019.[7]

Reception

From retrospective reviews, Jason Shawhan of Nashville Scene compared it to Bad Dreams and The Invasion stating it did not reach those levels of "ripoff and quilt cinema" comparing it to Night Porter and A Nightmare on Elm Street concluding that it was a "trashy film that wants to provoke every possible emotion, and the fact that it manages to find genuine empathy amid the chest wounds and obscene phone calls and sexualized capers makes for an experience that just doesn’t happen very often in movies anymore."[4]

References
  1. Chiti & Poppi 2000, p. 70.
  2. "Non aprite quella porta 3 (1990)" (in Italian). Archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it. Archived from the original on February 10, 2015. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
  3. Paul 2017.
  4. Shawhan 2019.
  5. "Night Killer [Blu-ray]". Severin Films. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
  6. Newman 2011, p. 268.
  7. "Night Killer (1989)". AllMovie. Retrieved April 18, 2020.

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