Review of Nightbeast (1982) by Kyle E — 29 Mar 2011

Nightbeast could possibly be the best horror b-movie from the 1980's that I've ever seen. Absurdly awful, Nightbeast doesn't stop being ridiculous from the moment it starts to the moment it ends.

Filled with some of the worst acting and special effects you'll ever see, Nightbeast is a movie that rivals the great "awful" films of the last century, including "Plan 9 From Outer Space", and more recently, "Satan Clause". But all this awful thrown into an awful blender doesn't stop Nightbeast from being one of the most entertaining trainwrecks of a movie I've ever seen. This is in desperate need of a remake. I mean Hollywood, if we can remake good films like "True Grit", can we at least give films that were flat out bad to begin with a second shot, like Nightbeast?

Nightbeast is basically the story of an alien who crash lands on Earth and begins killing everyone in his path. It's never really explained why he is killing everyone, but it also really doesn't matter.

Perhaps my favorite moments of Nightbeast are within the first twenty minutes, where litterally every character you are introduced to is completely destroyed by Nightbeast's insane ray gun. This thing has no reloading, absurd distance, and is able to disintegrate everything in its path.

You owe it to yourself to watch Nightbeast. Again I will say that while my rating is high, for sheer comical value only, Nightbeast is probably some of the lowest budget cinema you will ever see.