The Night Brings Charlie

1990 "A gruesome and horrifying descent into the twisted killing spree of a psychopath!"
The Night Brings Charlie
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Released: 08 August 1990 Released
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Upon the return of Charlie Puckett to the small town of Pakoe, a series of teenage beheadings begin. Intent on finding the culprit, Sherrif Carl Carson soon begins to suspect that Charlie's return may be more than meets the eye.

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ryan-10075 Murders start happening in a small Texas town where the heads of the victims are taken. The cops are investigating and Charlie turns out to be suspect # 1. I know that might sound interesting, but this amateurish early 90s horror flick isn't as good as it sounds. As well the sub-par acting brings this down. Not worth your time seeking out this rare horror movie.
Coventry Here's another very obscure and tiresome late 80's/early 90's slasher (seriously, where do they keep emerging from?) with an ultra-thin plot and dim-witted characters, but hey, at least there's also some exciting gore and welcome gratuitous nudity on display as well. Thank God for that! "The Night Brings Charlie" – can't help loving the title – is one of those horror flicks that don't seem to bother giving the maniacal killer a double identity. Charlie is simply and straightforward introduced at the beginning, along with the rest of the uninteresting characters. He's a gardener who wears a bag over his head, but everybody seems to think that is completely normal. For you see, Charlie's face got heavily mutilated in a "chainsaw accident". How the hell can that even happen?!? Who "accidentally" cuts up his face with a freaking chainsaw? Either way, even though this appears to be the smallest community in the entire USA, Charlie can get away with cutting off teenager heads with a tree saw, making prank phone calls to the police force and even single-handedly modifying the number of population on the town's welcoming board. The local coroner, who has to investigate all the headless bodies, becomes very worried for the safety of his own teenage daughter. Heck, who wouldn't become nervous if you live in the town with the world's most incompetent police force looking for a deranged killer who's right under their nose? After a few pointless but nevertheless exhilarating sequences, including a totally random showering interlude of a very hot chick with a lovely thong and an impressive pair of blouse-bunnies, the plot suddenly makes some very peculiar and even downright retarded twists that are nearly impossible to describe. Charlie has a doppelganger? Or someone who copycats his sinister appearance? And, finally, there's a very absurd twist that basically comes down to this: they guy whom you have been suspecting to be the killer since the beginning of the film already is, in fact, … the killer! Awesome! And now that's listing weird aspects anyway, there are a number of kooky supportive characters in this film as well, like a teenager with two different haircut styles, a bossy police radio operator and a Oliver Hardy look-alike coroner assistant who walks in and out of the screen during the most inappropriate moments. "The Night Brings Charlie" is a bizarre mixture of off-screen killings and explicitly nasty on screen murders. The film has a really stupid climax, but at least it's never boring. So, no complaints.
horror7777 (Includes Spoilers) Get this: a demented man who wears a mask is murdering people. He wears his mask during the day because he's deformed. Now, someone gets killed so naturally the doctor's daughter has to have a party. But first she has to take a shower and show us some gratuitous nudity. More people are getting killed at Charlie's barn, but that isn't good enough for the sheriff so Charlie is let go. More people die, I fell asleep only to awake and find the ending to be the typical slasher ending. In 1990, if producers hadn't gotten a clue that slasher films were as in as bell bottoms then they obviously needed as much help as Charlie. This is one cliche-ridden movie that's extremely laughable. I even remember *serious* dialogue like "there's a killer loose so I'm gonna walk home from your party Jamie." The killings are laughable, like a man whipped against a car, that I kinda though that Charlie might've been sexually deformed too. Really awful, I'm glad I only paid $2.00 to buy it. It's really boring too. *1/2out of****I'll give it the extra 1/2 just because I still can't look at the box cover without laughing hysterically.
Triple7 I rented this movie because I was browsing through the horror movie section for those movies that no one's heard of and could be a possible gem. I saw this and, since I'm a fan of violence and gore, I got it. It got the rating of EM which means: Extremely Mature. Thinking that this rare and high rating was totally meant for violence and everything else, I got it. The warning on the box said: Extreme Violence, Extreme Langauge, and Nudity. The "extreme violence" struck my fancy. The movie ended being a pretty tame slasher flick. It had one or two gory scenes but I've seen worse in a PG-13 movie. Of course the amount of gore in a movie isn't all that counts, right? You have plot also. Well, the plot was boring and there nothing really special about it. Don't rent it. I speak the truth. I can't imagine how someone could really enjoy it to the point where they say: "I'm gonna rent that again." It had it's moments where it kept you going but I'm never going to see that film again.