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Night Killer (Italian: Non aprite quella porta 3) is a 1990 Italian slasher film directed by Claudio Fragasso. On its release in Italy, it was promoted as being part of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The film is not part of the series and bears little content from the previously released films.

Night Killer
Directed by	Claudio Fragasso
Screenplay by	Claudio Fragasso Rosella Drudi[1][2]
Story by	Claudio Fragasso[3]
Produced by	Franco Gaudenzi[3]
Starring	Tara Buckman Peter Hooten Richard Foster
Cinematography	Antonio Maccoppi[3]
Edited by	Giovan Battista Mattei[3]
Production company	Flora Film[3]
Distributed by	C.R.C. Cin.ca Romana Cineproduzioni[1]
Release date	August 1990 (1990-08)
Running time	85 minutes[3]
Country	Italy[4]

Cast

• Tara Buckman as Melanie Beck
• Peter Hooten as Axel
• Richard Foster as Sherman Floyd
• Mel Davis as Detective Clark
• Lee Lively as Dr. Willow
• Tova Sardot as Clarissa

Production

Night Killer was shot in the United States.[5] After Fragsso finished the film, the producers hired Bruno Mattei to shoot additional scenes of graphic gore before the film's release in Italy.[6]

Style

Paul Zachary of Bloody Disgusting stated that the film combined elements of giallo and more straightforward slasher films.[2] Zachary described it as a "Franken-film" combining several bit and pieces of other related work.[2]

Release

Night Killer was first released in Italy in August 1990.[3] The film was released the same year that Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III was distributed in Italy and was promoted unofficially as a sequel in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise despite the plot not bearing any relation to the rest of the series.[2][7] The films Italian title, Non aprite quella porta 3 riffs on the Italian title for the Texas Chainsaw Massacre series.[7] The film was released on DVD and blu ray by Severin Films on June 25, 2019.[8]

Reception

From retrospective reviews, Jason Shawhan of Nashville Scene compared it to Bad Dreams and The Invasion stating it did not reach those levels of "ripoff and quilt cinema" comparing it to Night Porter and A Nightmare on Elm Street, concluding that it was a "trashy film that wants to provoke every possible emotion, and the fact that it manages to find genuine empathy amid the chest wounds and obscene phone calls and sexualized capers makes for an experience that just doesn't happen very often in movies anymore".[4]

References

Sources

• Chiti, Roberto; Poppi, Roberto (2000). Dizionario del cinema italiano (in Italian). Gremese Editore]. ISBN 8877424230.
• Curti, Roberto (2022). Italian Giallo in Film and Television. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-8248-8.
• Newman, Kim (2011). Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen Since the 1960s. A&C Black. ISBN 978-1408805039.
• Shawhan, Jason (September 5, 2019). "Night Killer Is a Trashy Film That Provokes Every Possible Emotion". Nashville Scene. Archived from the original on September 22, 2019. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
• Paul, Zachary (June 26, 2017). "Looking Back at the Unofficial 'Texas Chainsaw' Sequel from Italy!". Bloody Disgusting. Archived from the original on March 11, 2020. Retrieved April 18, 2020.

External links

• Night Killer at IMDb
• Night Killer at Variety Distribution

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