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This movie was ALWAYS on HBO in the 80's


How many times can remember coming home from school, and this flick was on HBO? Hundreds at least for me, and I'd say I've seen parts or all of this movie at least 30 times. Just wondering if any one else remembers.

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Yes, my sister and I must have seen this dozens of times. Of course, our mom did not want us to watch it as she thought we were too young (born in 1970 and 1971, so pre-teenage when it was on all the time, I guess). Naturally, we loved it. Our tiny little town had just gotten HBO, and we would have watched it 24 hours a day if we could have. Any movie that was HBO on a lot during the early 80s we saw over and over again--this movie and "Foul Play" with Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase in particular.

I have not seen "Nightwing" since that time, but I recall it as being horrifying and would love to see it again. Our favorite scene was when the people all tried to jump in the car to escape the bats, and the one woman was not able to get in, and the man drove right over her to escape. It was so awful to us to see that, and it never lost its impact, even after multiple viewings.

Good to know I'm not the only out there with that memory.:)

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yeah well, ive just watched it on encore or somewhere on the tube and it took me way back. everything was going well until that camp massacre. i too remember the lady crawling under the truck and they run her over but this presentation was completely cut! it goes like this, lady crawls under the truck and then you see the truck driving away with her body behind. i was so bummed out, i didnt want to watch the movie any further. i remember it much more gruesome. wheres the dvd?!?

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I read the book somewhere back in the 70s; it was a keeper but with time and moving from here to there, it got lost.
I think this is the first movie I saw with David Warner and I thought him good, then when he played Jack the Ripper in Time After Time, I thought he was a real good actor and have watched most of his work since.
I too saw it several times on HBO and it was on WTBS and WGN several times also. I rented the VCR version some years ago and have been trying to find it for several years. Was it ever released on DVD?

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Yeah, HBO had a field day with Nightwing and various other B horror flicks in the early 80s. I remember it not being that great of a movie but I'd love to see it again anyway for nostalgic reasons.

I saw it in a theater in the early 80s at a midnight veiwing. Everybody there was drunk and obnoxious- it added to the nonintentional humor of this movie.

I'd love to see it on DVD someday.

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I remember taping it 3 times so I'd have it. Finally found the VHS tape in the mid-90s. Because of this movie, I visited New Mexico and moved there eventually. I don't know why it has never come out on DVD. There are a lot of movies on DVD that were worse than this!

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So, your life was changed by 'Nightwing'!!! That is hilarious. Sounds like it all worked out. Funny, these little things that can end up changing ourlives. Seems there were a lot of movies filmed in the desert southwest in the 70's and I remember thinking it looked like a fun place to live.

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not just the 80's mind you but on into the early 90's as well. I loved watching this flick as a kid.

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this is a great one and certainly a movie that is more about the memories of being a kid catching it on an emergining cable channel rather than the limitations of the special effects. others i remember and have been buying from various outlets on the internet are Prophecy, The Car, Grizzly, Without Warning (giant killer alien hunting people in the woods - way before Predator did it), The Funhouse, Gargoyles, etc. and of course all the john carpenter flicks when he was in his prime. all of it was so terrifying back then but just great fun now. too bad my girlfriend who is younger than me just rolls her eyes and says how cheesy they all are...exactly, that's the point! any other suggestions to jog my memory?

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well said...it holds good memories of sneaking out to the living room around 1:00am (11-12 yrs old). i caught it on hbo 81-82' at least 20 times...clash of the titans was also a mainstay of early 80s hbo...used cars...gas (1981w/peter ackroyd)....legend of the lone ranger...zorro the gay blade...magic...animal house...the shining... the nude bomb(a really bad movie)...and, of course, mel brook's history of the world part 1.

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Funny that "firstbruin" mentioned "Predator" and "Without Warning" (a guilty pleasure for me since I first saw it on HBO many years ago). As I recall, the Predator and the alien slinging those deadly cheeseburger looking things with teeth in WW were both played by the same actor.

I liked "Nightwing", but I really liked "Without Warning". Maybe Anchor Bay or one of the other DVD distributors will get smart and put them both on a lost HBO horror double feature release or something. Did I say "get smart"? Man, that "Nude Bomb" movie was pretty dreadful.

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You're RIGHT! And thanks for bringing back fond memories for me. I was working at a Pizza Hut and would get off work really late, say midnight or one and every weekend, as I remember, this movie would be on HBO when I got home. I loved it. I was living in Mississippi (ugh) & this movie made me long to move west! I had forgotten how HBO seemed to own it back then, thanks for reminding me.

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I also saw this in the 80's on HBO when my grandparents were babysitting me and they went to bed early. It was on ALL the time back then. I would like to see it again now.

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I seem to remember always seeing this listed in the cable guide growing up.

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