Night Flier

Never believe what you publish. Never publish what you believe.

Stephen King's
The Night Flier

Richard Dees (Miguel) is a reporter for the sleazy tabloid weekly Inside View. Dees has never let the truth stand in the way of a good story, and he is the best at exploiting and sensationalizing tragedy.

Dees is assigned to investigate the "Night Flier" serial killer who has left behind a gruesome trail of mangled corpses at isolated rural air strips. Dees learns that the killer flies a Cessna, painted black, and using the alias Dwight Renfield to sign the log books, slaughters anyone unfortunate to be at the airstrip when he arrives. As Dees tracks the serial killer across country, filing field reports and doctoring evidence, he begins to suspect that "the Night Flier" may actually be a real vampire.

As the reporter hones in on his quarry, he discovers the killer knows he is on the trail and closing in. In spite of such ominous warnings as messages left in blood on his hotel room window, Dee catches up to the mysterious black Cessna aircraft in a climactic battle in a blood-soaked airport.

CAST
Miguel Ferrer - Richard Dees
Julie Entwisle - Katherine 'Jimmy' Blair
Dan Monahan - Merton Morrison
Michael H. Moss - Dwight Renfield
Directed by Mark Pavia

Writing credits (WGA)
Stephen King (story)
Mark Pavia & Jack O'Donnell (screenplay)

Original Broadcast: November 1997 (HBO)
(There was also a limited theatrical release after the HBO premiere in 1998)
Video Release Date: August 29, 2000
DVD Release Date: May 3, 2005
Stephen King's short story The Night Flier was first published in the Douglas Winter horror anthology Prime Evil (1988) and later appeared in King’s collection Nightmares and Dreamscapes (1993).

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CAST Miguel Ferrer - Richard Dees Julie Entwisle - Katherine 'Jimmy' Blair Dan Monahan - Merton Morrison Michael H. Moss - Dwight Renfield Directed by Mark Pavia Writing credits (WGA) Stephen King (story) Mark Pavia & Jack O'Donnell (screenplay)	Original Broadcast: November 1997 (HBO) (There was also a limited theatrical release after the HBO premiere in 1998) Video Release Date: August 29, 2000 DVD Release Date: May 3, 2005 Stephen King's short story The Night Flier was first published in the Douglas Winter horror anthology Prime Evil (1988) and later appeared in King’s collection Nightmares and Dreamscapes (1993).