Night Visitor

Night Visitor/Never Cry Devil/The Night Visitor
Night Visitor/Never Cry Devil/The Night Visitor
Directed by	Rupert Hitzig
Written by
Produced by	Alain Silver
Starring	Richard Roundtree; Elliott Gould; Shannon Tweed; Michael J. Pollard; Derek Rydall; Allen Garfield
Cinematography
Edited by	Glenn Erickson
Music by	Parmer Fuller
Production; company	Premiere Pictures Corporation
Distributed by	United Artists Pictures; MGM/UA Home Entertainment; Premiere Pictures Corporation
Release date	1989;
Running time	93 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Night Visitor is an independently-financed 1989 thriller shot under the title Never Cry Devil that was directed by Rupert Hitzig, produced by Alain Silver, and stars Richard Roundtree, Elliott Gould, Allen Garfield, and Derek Rydall.

Synopsis[]

High school student Billy Colton (Derek Rydall) is spying on his attractive new neighbor (Shannon Tweed) when he witnesses her being murdered by a man in a robe, and he recognizes the man as his unpopular history teacher Zachary Willard (Allen Garfield). Because he has a history of pranks and conflict with Willard, the police do not believe him. Threatened by Willard and his deranged brother Stanley (Michael J. Pollard), who are cultists and serial murderers, Billy convinces retired investigator Ronald 'Ron' Devereaux (Elliott Gould) to help him find hard evidence.

Cast[]

Richard Roundtree as Captain Crane
Elliott Gould as Ronald 'Ron' Devereaux
Michael J. Pollard as Stanley Willard
Allen Garfield as Zachary Willard
Derek Rydall as Billy Colton
Henry Gibson as Jake
Shannon Tweed as Lisa Grace
Bruce Kimmel as Townsend
Brooke Bundy as Mrs. Colton
as Dolan
as Sam Loomis
as Kelly Fremont
(Michael Rosen) as Bernstein
as Tony
Alain Silver (as Alain Joel Silver) as Thornhill
as Annie Hayworth
as Theresa
as Reporter
Teri Weigel as Victim in Cellar

Reception[]

The movie was briefly released by MGM/UA on 200 screens (none of which were in New York or Los Angeles) and garnered mixed reviews, many of which expressed humorous appreciation for a basement confrontation between Gould's Devereaux and Pollard's Stanley, while others disparaged the sequence as "a badly choreographed fight between a chainsaw wielding Pollard and a shotgun toting Gould that probably read really well in the script, but looks terrible on film."^[1] A later reviewer was more favorably disposed: "Combine Rear Window with late 80s Satanic conspiracy theories and this is the result. Not as bad as it sounds, Night Visitor is an unfairly obscure movie about Satanism in suburbia."^[2]

External links[]

Night Visitor at IMDb
Night Visitor at Rotten Tomatoes

References[]

^ Charles Tatum (December 4, 2002). ""Talk About a Bad Night". Retrieved 2019-08-10.
^ Jedadiah Leland (October 24, 2017). "A Movie A Day #289". Retrieved 2019-08-10.

[1] Charles Tatum (December 4, 2002). ""Talk About a Bad Night". Retrieved 2019-08-10.

[2] Jedadiah Leland (October 24, 2017). "A Movie A Day #289". Retrieved 2019-08-10.

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