The Night Flier (1997)
"Evil has a flight plan."
ThumbScore
👍 70%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 34%
(RT: 33%, MC: 36) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Julie Entwisle as Katherine 'Jimmy' Blair
Dan Monahan as Merton Morrison
Michael H. Moss as Dwight Renfield
John Bennes as Ezra Hannon
Beverly Skinner as Selida McCamon
Rob Wilds as Buck Kendall
Richard K. Olsen as Claire Bowie
Is The Night Flier good?
Most people think so. 70% audience score, estimated from 274 TMDB ratings. Critics scored it lower at 34%, but audiences disagreed.
Overview
For cynical tabloid journo Richard Dees, facts are always stranger than fiction. Every headline is a dead-line. Serial killers, UFO abductions, tales of molestation, mayhem and murder. To some the tales are mere sleazy fantasy – but his faithful readers believe. And now there's a new story: The Night Flier. What is it that travels by night in a dark-winged Cessna, lands at secluded airfields and murders local residents? Dees begins to track the unknown killer in a Cessna of his own, uncovering clues that reveal a pilot more terrifying than he could have ever imagined. Wikipedia ↗
