Nella notte... un grido

First Thing I noticed was that This movie lacked Good acting and the second thing was that it lacked good dialogue. With The exception of Casper van Dien I was not impressed. They should have titled this Film screams in the Night to change the channel .

This is a very confusing film. Even for afternoon TV it rates poorly.

The story revolves around a girl turning up at a small town and looking remarkably similar to a girl who was murdered the previous year .

The problem for me seems that although the two girls are played by the same actress, the young men in it look remarkably similar too. Which left me feeling like I wasn't sure who was whom.

The actress playing the dead girl's mum is decidedly wooden especially when hearing something that had happened to her daughter that would devastate most mothers.

All in all not one to be re-watched . not even creepy although it was billed as a chiller .Its a chiller decidedly Luke warm.

While the movie managed to keep my attention for the most part, it still had some big problems. The story had the potential to be decent, except that it got horribly messed up by the weak acting. Even the stars were dragged down by this sloppy dialogue. The highlight of it all- guy goes up to the sheriff, and says "Nice day.... too bad your father isn't alive to see it."

This was a film I first started to view on TV in 1997 and was unable to see the final conclusion and I discovered it on a DVD. This film starts out with Candace Cameron Bure,(Drew Summers) falling asleep in her car and then winding up in a small town in Oregon. Drew walks into this small town and is identified as a young girl who was murdered a year ago and there is a ceremonial going on for Drew's memory by her father the mayor of this town. This is a spiritual haunting tale about justice being resolved by the past and evil deeds uncovered for those responsible for this young girls horrible death. Denis Arndt, (Roy Ordwell Sr.,) "Sniper",'04, is the father of the murdered girl (Laura) and Teri Garr,(Mrs. Julie Ordwell),"Kill The Man",'99 plays the mother of Laura. This story has many twists and turns and many ghost flashbacks showing foggy scenes with dark images from this dead girls past.

NIGHTSCREAM is one of those insipid made-for-TV movies that seem primarily aimed at the middle aged American housewife who doesn't want too much in the way of sex, violence, or controversy in her TV scheduling. As such it's an entirely insipid affair, a dumb non-starter of a film that suffers from dull plotting and an almost entire lack of emotion and incident in the storyline.

The tale begins as a young woman finds herself in a small town still suffering from the consequences of a horrific murder that took place exactly a year before. It turns out that the murder victim looked EXACTLY the same as this new visitor, and that she's blessed (or cursed) with flashback memories of events building up to the tragic event. It soon transpires that the killer may still be on the loose after all this time.

It's not necessarily a bad set-up but it never goes anywhere and that's what makes this film so frustrating. It's full of bog-standard acting (including from a youthful Casper Van Dien), stereotyped characters, an almost wilful lack of suspense. The supernatural elements are deliberately toned down throughout, leaving this a decidedly lukewarm effort.