The Night Flier Widescreen Hits YOUTUBE

Mark Pavia, director of Night Flier, posted: Well, this is pretty. For the first time on YouTube, THE NIGHT FLIER widescreen and in HD...

The Night Flier: Tone

Fan Poster by fan Juan Hugo Martinez
source: FlyTheDeadlySkies

updated.

I like this movie. A lot. Since it's not a flick you're likely to just jump right into, let me sell this one a little bit!

Night Flyer is based on a Stephen King short story. The movie is straight horror. That doesn't mean there isn't character development, or some good drama -- but this baby is really about a very nasty vamp. Not the kind you'll meet in Twilight, I mean the real kind of vampire. The breed you should be scared of -- not the type you'd ever want to smooch with.

What I really like is the tone. That's really hard to explain isn't it? But I just like the feeling this movie gives me. A reporter chasing a murderer who owns a plane. Lots of rainy scenes. Smoke filled bars. Low life reporters.

There is one particularly wonderful scene that stands out above -- well, most anything I've seen! When Stephen King wrote Dreamcatcher, he noted that we make some pretty terrible discoveries in the bathroom. Well, it's in the potty that we get to see an invisible vampire taking a potty break. So how do we SEE that? He's peeing blood. And that's all you see! I thought that was worth the entire movie!

A rare shot of KNB EFX adding the special effects make-up to Dwight Renfield!
SOURCE: facebook.com/FlyTheDeadlySkies 

Check out their facebook page at: www.facebook.com, which has this interesting "Fright Fact":

NIGHT FLIER FRIGHT FACT: In the scene where Katherine is looking at Richard's bylines, the framed copies of "Inside View" contain many references to other stories by Stephen King: "Springhill Jack Strikes Again!" - Strawberry Spring. "Headless Lamaze Leads To Successful Birth!" - The Breathing Method. "Kiddie Cultists in Kansas Worship Creepy Voodoo God!" - Children of the Corn "Satanic Shopkeeper Sells Gory Goodies!" - Needful Things. "Naked Demons Levelled My Lawn!" - The Lawnmower Man "The Ultimate Killer Diet! Gypsy Curse Flays Fat Lawyer's Flesh" - Thinner.

Behind the scenes footage:

Stephen King by the Box Office

Sky Movies has an interesting slide slow titled "Stephen King By The Box Office."  It looks at 34 of King's movies, and tells us how it did at the box office.  Each movie not only lists what it took in at the box office, but tries to adjust for inflation.

The site notes, "Box office figures from BoxOfficeMojo.com. Inflation calculated with the USInflationCalculator.com."

Here's the breakdown:

• $134,711 , Riding The Bullet. The article notes, "The film bombed at the box office after receiving a deserved critical panning and holds the unenviable record of the lowest grossing Stephen King adaptation to date"
• $125,397 , The Night Flier.  (Sky Movies adjusts for inflation, giving it $182,467)
• $1,781,383 , The Mangler
•  $8,863,193 , Apt Pupil
• $7,433,663 , Maximum Overdrive.  I like this from the article, "Picking up two Razzie nominations for King and the film’s star, Emilio Estevez, the film was universally panned. However, despite even King writing it off as “the worst adaptation of his work”, it managed to reclaim $7,433,663 of its $9 million budget- just under $16 million in today’s money."
• $10,611,160 , The Dark Half
• $11,582,891, Graveyard Shift
• $15,315,484, Thinner.  WAIT. . . Thinner made it this far up on the list?  "Thinner performed reasonably upon release, helped by the fact that it was attached to Michael Jackson’s short film, Ghosts, also co-written by King."  Oh, that explains it.
• $15,185,672, Needful Things
• $12,361,866, Silver Bullet "Silver Bullet divided opinion at the time but has slowly gained something of a cult following over the years."  count me in the cult.
• $13,086,297, Cats Eyes
• $14,568,989, Children of the Corn.  Don't we wish that had been the last dollar that franchise would make?
• $24,361,867, Dolores Claiborne.
• $17,080,167, Fire Starter
• $30,919,415, Hearts in Atlantis
• $28,341,469, The Shawhank Redemption
• $20,766,616, The Dead Zone
• $21,017,849, Christine
• £30,524,763, Sleepwalkers (say it ain't so!)
• $21,156,152, Cujo
• $21,028,755, Creepshow
• $32,100,816, The Lawnmower Man  "This sci-fi horror baffled audiences and divided critics at the time, but it still opened at number two in the box office behind Wayne’s World and spawned a sequel in the form of 1996’s Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace."  For the record, I really hated  this film.  I feel good about that.
• $38,122,105, The Running Man
• $59,006,619, Carrie 2013 "the film has already done decent business in the US and looks set to easily clear the $60 million mark."
• $57,293,715, The Mist
• $75, 715,436, Dreamcatcher.  No, I can't explain that.  "Even with a cast of names including Morgan Freeman, Damian Lewis and Jason Lee, the film dive-bombed at the American box office, although it did break even upon worldwide release."
• $57,469,467, Pet Sematary.
• $33,800,000, Carrie 1979
•  £61,276,872, Misery.
• $52,287,414, Stand By Me
• $92,913,171, Secret Window
• $44,017,374, The Shining
• $131,998,242, 1408.  This surprised me, since it's a film I really didn't think was very strong.  However,  it sure did make  strong showing at the box officer.
• $286,801,374, The Green Mile.

The full article is at skymovies.sky.com

NIGHT FLIER Behind The Scenes

First saw this at liljas-library.com

Mark Pavia DRAG

Mark Pavia writes, I get a lot of email asking how Stephen King discovered me, then hired me to make THE NIGHT FLIER. This was how...

The Vimeo page notes:

"DRAG is the best short horror film I've seen in twenty years- smart, scary, and ferocious." -- Stephen King
"DRAG" - Mark Pavia's legendary 16mm zombie short was discovered and championed by the master of horror himself, Stephen King. This is the film that landed Pavia in the writer/director's chair for Stephen King's "The Night Flier", the vampire cult classic.
Shot in and around Pavia's home town of Lockport, Illinois, "DRAG" was also an early effort by Academy Award winning DP Mauro Fiore (AVATAR). 

Stephen King Returns To Horror Movies!

As I posted earlier, a new Stephen King anthology is in the works.  Very exciting!  For what it's worth, on my end, I loved Night Flier!  Very creepy tone.  So news that Mark Pavia is headed back to Stephen King country is exciting news to me.

Britgeek at Ain't It Cool News has this great post.  I am posting this with permission from Britgeek! 

Britgeek here.

Stephen King is quite possibly the greatest writer of our time and it's amazing just how many novels, short stories and screenplays he manages to produce each and every year. What's also incredible is how, for an author best known for his contribution to horror, King is such a diverse wordsmith, tackling drama, science fiction and fantasy on numerous occasions throughout his long and wildly successful career. One example would be his latest novel, 11.22.63, which is proving to be his most successful work in years and yet isn't a horror yarn. My favourite King book? IT. My favourite King film adaptation? THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION. Many aren't even aware that he penned the short story of which long-time collaborator Frank Darabont (THE GREEN MILE, THE MIST) adapted for the screen.

One of the my favourite King movie adaptations that does fall under horror, however (and one of the most overlooked), is THE NIGHT FLIER from 1997, directed by Mark Pavia and starring the great Miguel Ferrer as a journalist for a trashy magazine who is hot on the tail of a vampire that gets around not by morphing into a bat, but by taking to the skies in a plane. It's excellent and not nearly enough people talk about it these days. Pavia and King co-wrote the screenplay for a sequel, THE NIGHT FLIER: FEAR OF FLYING (a script I'm dying to read), but it's been kept under lock and key for years by producer Richard Rubenstein at New Line. I really hope to see the project get the green light one day. But until then, we have another Pavia/King collaboration in the works in the form of an anthology film. Yes, the man who made the legendary CREEPSHOW with George A. Romero is currently developing a yet-to-be-titled horror anthology with Pavia that will consist of four tales of terror. Pavia is currently writing the script, which consists of four tales of terror of which are from the mind of King.

While there have been rumblings for months about big-budget Hollywood adaptations of THE STAND and the utterly epic THE DARK TOWER series, news that King is returning to horror movies in a writing capacity and possibly more is music to my ears. I can't wait to find out what these two have up their sleeves.

What are your favourite Stephen King stories and movies?

TTFN.
Britgeek

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