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The Night Flier
MEANRANK
53/100
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 36, highest is Kinopoisk on 64. Critics average 36, everyone else 57.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →For cynical tabloid journo Richard Dees, facts are always stranger than fiction. Every headline is a dead-line. Serial killers, UFO abductions, tales of molestation, mayhem and murder. To some the tales are mere sleazy fantasy – but his faithful readers believe. And now there's a new story: The Night Flier. What is it that travels by night in a dark-winged Cessna, lands at secluded airfields and murders local residents? Dees begins to track the unknown killer in a Cessna of his own, uncovering clues that reveal a pilot more terrifying than he could have ever imagined.
Details
- Director
- Mark Pavia
- Writers
- Jack O'Donnell, Mark Pavia
- Based on
- a work by Stephen King
- Released
- 30 April 1997
- Country
- Italy, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $1.0M
- Box office
- $125.4K
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