Nightbeast

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“If you have the guts … it wants them!” Amidst a dazzling meteor shower, the nasty, fang-faced alien Nightbeast lands near a small East Coast town, armed with his vaporizing ray gun and an ambitious goal of mutilating and/or killing everyone who crosses his path. As area residents offer up bad acting and are blasted to smithereens, the local sheriff and an ever dwindling group of survivors become determined to figure out a way to defeat this fearsome E.T. before their entire community is wiped out. A demented display of low-budget filmmaking and lo-fi ambition from Baltimore-based cult director and underrated auteur, Don Dohler (Alien Factor), NIGHTBEAST immediately plunges the viewer into a frenzy of wildly colorful animation techniques, grisly homemade gore effects, and awkward sexual encounters. Made for a mere $14,000 and featuring a soundtrack partially composed by a then teenage J.J. Abrams, NIGHTBEAST is a regional sci-fi/horror blast that will melt your face off! (Dir. by Don Dohler, 1982, USA, 81 mins., Rated R)