Guess what movie

Bingo. 

I thought that might have been too obvious, but nobody seems to remember that movie.

Well, Xtro (1982) came with an oversized (in the film) toy soldier, and I thought it might be fun to continue on, with a similar giant version of a toy:

I saw it for the first time a couple of years ago, and was surprised that I'd never even heard of it. I thought it was surprisingly strong for seemingly the only Stephen King move that nobody ever talks about. I thought Miguel Ferrer was excellent, and it was a little novel to have a kind of reprehensible guy as a lead character and no romantic interest. And I thought the girl was really good and then I looked her up and saw that she pretty much never worked again. She was an appealing screen presence and I thought the arc of her character was interesting and pretty dark.

That 'who is the real vampire' stuff is interesting, if not at all subtle. It's not like it's a great film of real depth, but for a lower budget, small, intimate little horror movie about some ugly characters it feels pretty solid. It could have been an episode of an anthology TV series or something, and while some of the effects and big moments could be a little cheesey, I actually think it's pretty well made.

The best thing about it is the subculture and that atmosphere of the small airports and the people that populate them. The eeriness of a small airport that nobody else is ever in is palpable. Not that I would suggest such a thing, but that movie could easily be remade really well.

It is not The Pit, but we are surely within the same decade, and I think this one sadly kind of got overshadowed by the filmmakers earlier and later outputs, and I can see why, as it is probably more of a fantasy adventure, at times a rather "goofy" one, but which also features some dark themes/scenes, along with a few very impressive and nasty special effects as well.
From what I understood, a potential sequel would have arrived, but since I guess it did not make enough money at the time, those plans were soon abandoned.

Julie Entwisle was really cute, but showed later on that she would go that extra "bit", to get her the juicy headlines and deadlines.
I thought she somewhat reminded me a little of Phoebe Cates, and was surprised to see that she barely had any other roles to her movie CV after The Night Flier.

My only complaint, not really towards the film itself, but damn, some of those DVD covers/artwork, talk about giving aways the "goods", by plastering the nasty vampire face on the frontcover. I think my DVD however, only comes with the night fly, along with the shadow figure of the vampire down below, which I thought was way cooler way of handling it. But on the backside, there it is again, huge picture of the vampire. I really dislike it, specially with horror films, when they do that.

Yes, I also enjoyed the airport scenes at night, also a few of the motel scenes as well. 
I think this film works well, along with The Langoliers, even if the latter one is a 3 hour mini-series, and surely more "goofy" in the way it delivers the plot and characters, but I always have lots of fun re-watching it.

Yeah, the pac-man attack, was cheesy as hell, even the first time I saw it, but I always get a kick out of seeing Mr. Toomey and his little adventure towards insanity during the flight, that and having Dean Stockwell and his younger sidekick, trying to solve the whole mystery. A big bonus, is the hot grunge babe Kimber Riddle and her nice nipples, which surely is hard to miss out on.

Another clue, but not any images this time:

The film we are on the lookout for, was part of a rather impressive group of movies during the late 80s, and who shared a similar theme, for a certain small and vicious bunch of killers. But where this one, kind of got left behind, while the two others have enjoyed an impressive amount of sequels, that are part of two very popular franchises.