Overview: An alien with an appetite for blood and disembowelment is set loose on a small town when its spacecraft crashes.

Sheriff Jack Cinder & local militia arrive on scene, a violent battle ensues, leaving only Jack, his deputy & a wild-eyed redneck as survivors.

With a corrupt mayor unwilling to stand up against the Nightbeast's reign of carnage, it's up to Jack to evacuate the townsfolk & save the day!

Blu-ray Verdict: Maryland-based, no-budget, hack junk genre filmmaker par excellence, Don Dohler hits an uproariously atrocious all-time low with this marvelously messed-up magnum opus of sheer awfulness!

A relentlessly wretched $1.98 amateur-night-at-the-movies sci-fi/horror evil alien splatterfest that's downright mesmerizing and often almost unbearably funny in its pure, distilled, unflinchingly shoddy woefulness, 'Nightbeast' is finally on Blu-ray!

A hefty homicidal lizard who resembles a pudgy version of the titular hokey reptilian fiend in "Track of the Moonbeast" crash-lands his spaceship in the drab podunk burg of Perry Hill, Maryland after said spaceship gets struck by a meteor.

The nasty, scaly, clawed lizard creature proceeds to rack up a substantial corpse tally (24 people in total!) by either zapping folks with its cruddy plastic toy raygun or graphically tearing 'em up with its sharp, talloned hands.

It's up to geeky, curly-haired string bean Sheriff Cinder (the bland, ungainly Tom Griffith), pretty Deputy Lisa (the extremely cute and sprite blonde looker Karin Kaisdan (who, at one particularly ridiculous point in the middle of all the action, finds time to bare her hot bod for a laughably gratuitous love scene with the sheriff), and selfless, stout-hearted good Samaritan Jamie (the gratingly insipid Jamie Zemarel) to kill the bloodthirsty intergalactic being before it decimates the entire populace of the town!

Chockablock with all the essential oddly entertaining so-utterly-wrong-it's-paradoxically-right stuff -- rancid emoting from a non-star cast (besides the three horrible leads, we also got the ubiquitous Grade Z film regular George Stover, in one of his standard wimpy bespectacled dweeb roles and the beefy Don Leifert as an odious woman-beating local roughhouse baddie), ineptly staged shoot-outs, chintzy scratched onto the negative laser effects, a judicious smattering of cheesy soft-core sex and nudity, ham-fisted direction, and a threadbare script (which does little more than loosely string together a steady series of gruesome murder set pieces!).

Oh and we also get eye-straining, under-lit nighttime cinematography, and more luridly gory ultra-violence than you can shake a double-barreled shotgun at, but you know what, damn it if 'Nightbeast' certainly earns its place in the hilariously horrendous down'n'dirty celluloid dreck epic Hall of Shame!

It's an enjoyably idiotic, low-rent and resolutely tacky all-thumbs affair that's a great deal of first-rate fumbling el schlocko high camp fun! Watch this film, with friends and find yourself a whole new cheesy, but truly excellent movie, to recommend to everyone you know! This is a Widescreen Presentation (1.85:1) enhanced for 16x9 TVs and comes with the Special Features of:

Intro with Lloyd Kaufman
Outtakes and Bloopers
Visual FX Gallery
And More!!