“Night Killer” is a low-budget horror flick made in English with American actors by an Italian crew. In Italy, it was promoted as part of the “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” franchise despite not featuring any chainsaws. This is a disastrous film that’s beyond cheesy and seriously unpleasant to watch at times.

A sadistic serial killer is going around murdering women. Melanie Beck (Tara Buckman “The Cannonball Run”, “Silent Night, Deadly Night”) is a woman that narrowly survives her encounter with the killer. However, she is so traumatised by the ordeal that she forgets who he is and who she is. Now, the killer is after her again.

The killer in this movie wears a horrible rubber mask that looks a bit like Freddy Krueger. He also wears a glove with large fingernails that he uses to slash people so this is also like Krueger. There is also a psychiatrist character who feels like a poor man’s Dr. Loomis from the “Halloween” films. Tara Buckman is terrible as Melanie. The acting in this movie is on par with Tommy Wiseau’s “The Room”; it’s insane just how bad it is at times.

“Night Killer” has some truly uncomfortable scenes and the atrocious acting just makes it even more surreal and weird. It’s much worse than “Friday The 13th” but not quite as astoundingly awful as “Troll 2”. Everything in this film just looks cheap from the lame mask the killer wears to the lousy special effects during the murder scenes. If you are from Italy, definitely don’t be fooled into thinking that this has anything to do with the “Texas Chainsaw Massacre”. I really am baffled by that marketing decision. I might have been able to understand if that had tried to pass it off as part of the “Nightmare On Elm Street” series though.