Bloodnight (1989)

Bloodnight: Directed by Scott Spiegel. With Elizabeth Cox, Renée Estevez, Dan Hicks, David Byrnes. The overnight stock crew of a local supermarket find themselves being stalked and slashed by a mysterious maniac.

“Scott Spiegels gruesome late 80u0026#39;s slasher flick has just been released in Europe completely uncut and region free by Dragon dvd, under the title Night of the Intruder. Itu0026#39;s avaliable as a regular or special edition. Both are uncut. I decided to check it out (the special edition version) since iu0026#39;d only ever seen the abortive BBFC UK cut (which, incidentally, allowed WAY more gore than the U.S. and Canadian u0026quot;Ru0026quot; rated versions). Itu0026#39;s pretty safe to say that, in the UK at least, given our current censorship climate, this would probably pass pretty much uncut these days, save for maybe the u0026quot;head-in-a-crusheru0026quot; u0026amp; infamous u0026quot;band-sawu0026quot; scene. With that in mind, it would be wise to discard any negative review on IMDB which fails to mention the word u0026quot;uncutu0026quot;.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBy this point everyone will know what this is all about: Night-crew get savagely killed by-the-numbers while working late in a supermarket. Youu0026#39;ve got a capable little cast including the Raimi brothers, and cameo appearances by Bruce Campbell u0026amp; even director Scott Spiegel himself (brief, this one!).u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eYeah, itu0026#39;s all a little over-the-top, with gleefully graphic eye-impalings, stabbings, and heads being cut in half (all courtesy of KNB FX), but you can tell everyone involved had a helluva lot of fun making the thing. A true, no-nonsense horror film pitched directly at the fans, you get lots of whacky camera angles, black comedy and lashings of the old red stuff, making you wish they still made them this way. Really.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe Dragon dvd has been digitally remastered, although it still looks softer u0026amp; a bit grainier than I remember. The sound – default German dubbed or selectable to original English – is extremely clear but does tend to have slight hiss behind it even though itu0026#39;s presented in Dolby Digital mono. The menus, naturally, are in German, but are very easy to navigate. Overall, itu0026#39;s all very acceptable, especially when you consider what youu0026#39;re getting: uncut region free main feature, director shorts, trailers, out-takes, animated scene selections, etc. Itu0026#39;s a great little disc of a great little unpretentious horror-flick. You want gore? You want this version of Intruder!”