Night stalker is a very creepy & grimy low-budget Horror-Thriller,it's unnerving at times & disturbing especially when you see how crazy-evil this guy was!!!
The look of this based-on-real-life Horror flick is very gloomy,dark,grimy & gritty.LA at night looks scary as hell, the night time scenes are so well shot it felt so unnerving seeing those empty late night streets surrounded in darkness except for some dim & gloomy light,very atmospheric. The low-budget helped the trashy-grim look & raw tone.
One of my favourite actors ever,the cult hero Danny Trejo has a nice little role as a good-wise Cop named Frank Luis who is partnered up with the main lead of this film officer Gabriella Martinez played excellently by Roselyn Sanchez, she's a good person & a good police officer but is discriminated against for Being a "women" & a very beautiful lady too. This is all set in 1985 so you get the feel of what it was like to be a lady of the force & how they was treated by fellow officers & superiors. But Martinez is a smart & tough cop & she does make a good lead in this disturbing horrific situation.
The cast is solid & the evil,sadistic killer is scary & pathetic at the same time!!! This is based on true crime but I'm not sure how accurate it is? But it's definitely an engrossing Horror Thriller. This is a police procedural crime Thriller with pure Horror elements because of the sicko's horrific crimes. A very good movie.
The look of this based-on-real-life Horror flick is very gloomy,dark,grimy & gritty.LA at night looks scary as hell, the night time scenes are so well shot it felt so unnerving seeing those empty late night streets surrounded in darkness except for some dim & gloomy light,very atmospheric. The low-budget helped the trashy-grim look & raw tone.
One of my favourite actors ever,the cult hero Danny Trejo has a nice little role as a good-wise Cop named Frank Luis who is partnered up with the main lead of this film officer Gabriella Martinez played excellently by Roselyn Sanchez, she's a good person & a good police officer but is discriminated against for Being a "women" & a very beautiful lady too. This is all set in 1985 so you get the feel of what it was like to be a lady of the force & how they was treated by fellow officers & superiors. But Martinez is a smart & tough cop & she does make a good lead in this disturbing horrific situation.
The cast is solid & the evil,sadistic killer is scary & pathetic at the same time!!! This is based on true crime but I'm not sure how accurate it is? But it's definitely an engrossing Horror Thriller. This is a police procedural crime Thriller with pure Horror elements because of the sicko's horrific crimes. A very good movie.