Nightflyers (1987)

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

The acting in this movie is really good.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

My VHS tape of Nightflyers was a prized possession of mine, until that media died. THEN, I found a digital copy of a laserdisc(?) WooHoo! Methinks, mehopes, that a 'remastered edition' will be released with the new Nightflyer Series! The film has such an immersive quality, an original sci-fi story and the soundtrack is classic 80's! Thanks to George Arr Arr Martin!

Just for the record, I haven't read the novella this is based on, though I've heard it's much better than this movie. As a movie alone, it's a very fun sci-fi thriller that looks downright incredible. It's some of the best sci-fi movie set design I've seen, and the movie doesn't waste a centimeter. The story is basically about the implications of telekinesis, and uses the Alien "trapped-onboard-a-spaceship-with-malignant-force" set-up to exploit it (with much "sturm und drang"). The film has very well-drawn characters, like the loose-cannon telekinetic (Michael Des Barres), the wistful, elderly professor (John Standing) whose search for the mythical Volkind (itself a pity case from his colleagues) is the reason for the mission, and especially Royd (Michael Preed), whose unique, reclusive existence on the ship offers the main thrust of the story. Highly recommended for fans of sci-fi and obscure cinema.

This sci-fi/horror film is very unusual.I really don't want to spoil it but it has a slow beginning and middle but the climax is a long intense ending!If you haven't seen this movie before than give it a chance,it'll be a different experience for the sci-fi and horror film fan!

It's unbelievable how silly some movies can be. I forgot completely why it was that I started watching this movie. It has a story, I'm sure of that, but it can't have been a very thick one. Everybody seems to have motivations, but they don't say anything about them. They just look pondering into the camera for a moment or two (three, ten) and then take action. A little more light on the flyers activities would in other ways also have been nice. I mean: they're on a spaceship, the electricity bill will not be the largest post. And that way it is actually possible to see what is happening to some of the flyers, fights in the dark do so little to me.By far the worst film I've ever seen.