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That Cat's Not Roaring, It's Yawning!..., August 3, 2009
This review is from: Night Creature (DVD)
Horror icon Donald Pleasence (Halloween 1 and 2, Raw Meat, Alone In The Dark) is big-game hunter extraordinaire, Axel McGregor in this non-creepy, sleep-inducer. McGregor is so obsessed w/ a man-eating black leopard, that he has it captured and brought to his private island so he can hunt it. All is well until McGregor's family (including the lovely Nancy Kwan) pays a surprise visit, unaware of the danger they're in. Unfortunately, what could / should have been a tense, ferocious story of survival is actually a bland test of endurance (for the viewer). It was hard to keep my eyes open...
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2.0 out of 5 stars
You end up rooting for the panther in this bad B-movie, April 1, 2003
"Night Creature" can be described as a cross between "The Most Dangerous Game" and "Gilligan's Island." Actually, it can be described as a whole lot of things, all of which would be more interesting than this 1977 low-budget film. Donald Pleasence, still a year away from being rediscovered in the classic slasher flick "Halloween," plays Axel MacGregor, a millionaire big game hunter and writer who brings a killer black leopard to his own private little island. However, his hunt is interrupted by some unexpected visitors, his two daughters and a boyfriend, which gives the leopard some choices in terms of dinner. Speaking of low points in careers, Nancy Kwan, who started off big time in movies with "The World of Suzie Wong" and "Flower Drum Song," plays Leslie. If you never thought of Donald Pleasence as macho man, then "Night Creature" will show why you were wise never to waste brain cells on such thoughts because this is just miscasting of the first order. There are some moments of tension, but they are all due to the big bad black cat out there in the jungle. When you end up rooting for the killer animal in a film like this, then you know that is not a good sign.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
NOT MUCH TO ROAR ABOUT, January 13, 2006
This review is from: Night Creature (DVD)
NIGHT CREATURE is one of those trademark late 70s movies that moves so slow it becomes uncomfortable waiting for something to happen. And even when it does, it is so poorly filmed and edited, you don't really see much of what's going on. Add the wearisome storyline of a great hunter who loves hunting more than his two daughters, bring them together on a deserted island with a deadly black leopard and talk the audience to death. That's basically all NIGHT CREATURE accomplishes. Donald Pleasance is ludicrously inept as Axel McGregor, who brings the captured leopard to his island to kill it; and Nancy Kwan fares little better as one of his daughters. Dull and tedious, little to recommend.
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