That was an excellent one.

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Please forgive me the rather goofy and bizarre user comment's subject line, as it's a reference towards the typically expressive and often overlong titles that were given to Italian so-called "giallo" movies during the '60s, '70s and early '80s. Due to its plot, character drawings and filming style, Ted Post's "Nightkill" frequently resembles the giallo prototype. Post's main role model and inspiration for this film was obviously Alfred Hitchcock, but more than half of the Italian gialli ever made were also inspired by the works of Hitchcock, so it's logical that I notice similarities everywhere! Short and simple: I liked "Nightkill"! It's a straightforward thriller that contains a few impressive shock- moments and plot twists that you honestly don't see coming. Throughout the largest part of the running time, you don't have the slightest clue of what's going on. On top of the unpredictability factor, there are a handful of genuinely suspenseful sequences (the body-dumping, the car chase between Katherine and an unknown assailant) as well as a thoroughly murky gloomy atmosphere and a downright fantastic damsel-in-distress performance by Jacklyn Smith. She depicts the unhappy wife of robust and arrogant Arizona business tycoon Wendell Atwell. Katherine wants a divorce so that she can start a new life with her lover (and Wendell's business partner) Steve Fulton, but he refuses. Without thinking it through, Steve poisons Wendell and they hide the body in the freezer. But then Steve himself vanishes mysteriously and later it's his murdered body that lies in the freezer! Meanwhile, the increasingly anxious Katherine receives several visits from her obtrusive lawyer Herbert and a cynical private detective named Donner. "Nightkill" is a recommended watch in case you're searching for a tense and compelling whodunit-thriller. Smith's performance perfectly captures the fear and solitude that her character goes through, while Robert Mitchum is given the opportunity again to play a mysterious character like he did in his old film-noir days. Worth mentioning as well: Sybil Danning never looked more beautiful than in this film!

This is a very strange movie indeed.Its two male stars (Connors and Franciscus) disappear after five or ten minutes of presence.It's actually Jaclyn Smith and supporting actors .That she and Connors were primarily TV icons and a Colomboesque swagger by Mitchum in the first part increase the feeling of watching a MTV movie.Do not get me wrong:the movie is good entertainment and it's a wonder the poor Smith is not driven mad by all these horrible things around her;her situation (the-dead-may-or-may-not-be-dead) is not unlike Vera Clouzot's one in her husband's classic "les Diaboliques " (currently in the IMDb top 250);but Ted Post who made the first sequel of "planet of the apes" starring Franciscus and the first movie about the Vietnam war (Go tell the Spartians)is an efficient director ,even if his movie is a bit slow-moving.The story is far -fetched to a fault,but I guess it's the rule of the game in this kind of thriller.

I disagree that this is bad cinema. Surely it is not great cinema. But the performances are quite good and it has a good ending. I got my copy from an on-line auction, as its a very rare film and didn't get much showing at theatres. If you like dark mysteries and Robert Mitchum, and if you can find it, give it a try.

A very murky thriller. On the first viewing, I swear you won't be able to tell what's going on until....the last five minutes or so. This may be one of those mysteries that require a second viewing to fully understand how everything adds up. Good acting, though, both by Robert Mitchum, as a cunning detective, and by Jacklyn Smith, who's quite convincing as a woman involved in an increasingly threatening situation, with nobody to rely on in the whole world. (**)