Blu-ray Review – Night Visitor

1989's "Night Visitor" attempts to merge the high jinks of teen cinema with Alfred Hitchcock-style ideas for suspense. It's not the best mix of moods, but that's not going to stop director Rupert Hitzig, who's interested in creating a thrill ride with the endeavor, only he's missing some crucial components necessary to launch a truly gripping viewing experience. "Night Visitor" offers sexploitation without sex and horror without frights, emerging as a PG-13-style take on hard R-rated events, always pulling punches in a weird quest to remain approachable to a wide audience. It's a misguided film and also a questionably scripted one by Randal Viscovich, who punctures the tires of the movie too soon, trying to be cheeky with his identification of evil, only to have the whole effort lose tension immediately. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com