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Overview

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3.7/10   460 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Steve Shagan (screenplay) &
Bud Shrake (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
22 June 1979 (USA) more
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Tagline:
In the dead of night they come - Swift - Silent - Savage more
Plot:
Killer bats plague an Indian reservation in New Mexico. full summary | full synopsis
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Nick Mancuso ... Youngman Duran
David Warner ... Phillip Payne
Kathryn Harrold ... Anne Dillon

Stephen Macht ... Walker Chee
Strother Martin ... Selwyn
George Clutesi ... Abner Tasupi
Ben Piazza ... Roger Piggott
Donald Hotton ... John Franklin
Charles Hallahan ... Henry
Judith Novgrod ... Judy
Alice Hirson ... Claire Franklin
Pat Corley ... Vet
Charlie L. Bird ... Beejay
Danny Zapien ... Joe Mamoa
Peter Prouse ... Doctor
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Additional Details

Runtime:
105 min | Belgium:99 min (video)
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Color (Metrocolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Youngman Duran: One man's superstition is another man's religion! more
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Featured in Terror in the Aisles (1984) more
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4 out of 5 people found the following review useful.
Love it!!, 11 January 2006
10/10
Author: charlenelv from United States

I liked this movie so much that it prompted me to take a trip to New Mexico and to eventually move there!! Unfortunately, due to medical problems, I was forced to come back to Kansas, but I will never regret moving to the Southwest.

Okay, so Nick Mancuso, who played Duran, sounded like he was from the Bronx occasionally and the tribes were renamed, but I purchased the VHS tape many years ago and check out every DVD web site hoping to find it there. It is probably the only reason I still have a VCR.++++++

The book was written by Martin Cruz Smith, an accomplished author, it was directed by Arthur Hiller, and the musical score done by Henry Mancini. Just how bad could it be?? If it is a horror movie you are looking for, this is not going to satisfy you. But a movie about the hardships and superstitions that still persist on the Navajo and Hopi reservations is as relevant as it was when Nightwing was made back in the 70s. I think that if the movie had not been billed as a "horror" flick, it would have gained much more of a following. I find it quite amusing that although it has never been made as a DVD, it is still found almost every other month on one of the pay movie channels. So I guess I'm not the only one who thinks that Nightwing is worth watching!

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