Matialth
Good concept, poorly executed.
Allison Davies
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
Cheryl
A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.
mikebourkefan
As historically inaccurate as this was about the 1980's. I thought Adolph Cortez did as good an acting job as he could considering the script was filled with tons of inner monologues either about Richard hating people or loving his "dark princess". flashback scenes of Richard's uncle talking about his Vietnam kills are misplaced because he was far to old to have been in that war. Elissa Dowling who played the semi girlfriend had some decent talking scenes about power and belief. one big problem thru the movie is kills being off screen and lasting mere seconds yet after invisible kills we see victims looking very bloody. the positives here tons of cursing voice overs and decent gore along with nice sounding instrumental Cuban? music played in opening and closing credits. the negatives Richard commits most of his crimes in broad daylight despite being nicknamed "the Night stalker". to much time was spent with Richard walking thru the streets of Los Angeles sucking on a lollipop. in closing this was a bad movie semi based on true events yet it is heavily rewatchable if you love inner monologue and gore
Draconis Blackthorne
Watched this on Decades recently. It comes off as an amateurish college-made production for a film project grade with art project quality. The main theme of the portrayed 'crimes' involves Ramirez roving from one irritating bickering couple to another {except for the airhead on the phone}, thankfully ending their whiny tantrums. One finds oneself eagerly awaiting, even encouraging the next slaying just to make them stop.The primary weapon of choice here is a handgun, with a knife used on a couple of occasions to carve a pentagram on victims' bellies, while Ramirez was actually eclectic, utilizing a variety of murder weapons.The actor appears Mediterranean, and displays the rather vexatious habit of constantly drawing upon a sucker like a pacifier all through the film. He'd more likely be smoking a cigarette, if anything.Ironically, probably one of the most disturbing scenes is the squandering of a perfectly fortuitous opportunity for indulgence with a pair of succulent salacious beauties, perhaps to further establish the character's chaotic disposition.With artistic license taken to the most extensive degree, the plot has little to nothing to do with the actual case, with the vague exception of being beaten by a small mob {although in this case in an alleyway, while on the street in actuality}. The only devil worship angle involves Ramirez psychotically talking to himself, demanding victims say they love Satan, whispering 'demonic voices' throughout, and sharing narcotics with a junky girl in a restroom stall attempting to define Satan through a mind numbed haze.This characterization depicts Ramirez more like a fictional boogeyman likened a Michael Meyers type, which is understandable after all, considering the director also directed the film entitled "The Boogeyman".By far the worst of the docudramas of the genre, with the recent Phillips version as the best so far. ∞
movieman_kev
Jesus not another Ulli Lommel 'movie' (takes a long sigh and sucks it up) OK this one is based on the Night Stalker Killer from the 1980's and of course when I say 'based' I mean little to not at all. God, it's Ulli after all.Richard Ramirez goes about the movie killing random people when he's not thinking random gibberish talks that would be at home with any typical Goth poser from junior high. And that's the whole movie folks. There I saved you from the mind-numbing effect of this excrement in celluloid form.What you want more? OK fine it might make the film go faster if you were to drink every time the word Satan is uttered, that or make sure you have one of GOB's forget-me-nots handy.
Michael_Elliott
Nightstalker (2009) * 1/2 (out of 4) Lommel's ongoing saga of doing a film about every famous serial killer continues with this look at the Night Stalker who haunted California during the 1980's and is still sitting on Death Row there today. Adolph Cortez does a decent job at playing the nutcase who walks around stalking men and women while playing with a sucker in his mouth. We learn this is due to a deal with Satan and because he saw his uncle shoot his aunt. Whatever the case, this is the eleventh film in this series that I've seen and while this one here is among the better ones, I still can't help but get bored because we've seen this thing one time too many. Once again we get a crazy guy walking around and talking to himself. Lommel has used this same set up during several of this serial killer pictures and I really wish he would at least try to do something different with it because all of the eleven films just bleed together to the point where I really couldn't tell one from another. I doubt many people outside myself are going to bother going through everyone of these films but those who do attempt it are going to have deja vu all over the place. Once again this is done on video and once again the budget is extremely low even though this one here features more blood than any of the previous ones. The gunshots are extremely fake looking but I guess the producers tried to make up for this by using a gallon of blood on each shot. The film starts off mildly entertaining but it quickly gets tiresome as we have to keep watching the same thing happen over and over.
