One of the better low budget horror flicks with atmosphere

When it comes to horror and horror suspense films, it's often not the budget nor the big budget, but the quality of the story and production values and if there is a good gothic or spooky feel. Remember HALLOWEEN from 1978, which was filmed for only $200,000?

THE NIGHT FLYER was filmed for a surprisingly economical budget of 1 million dollars and as horror films go, ranks at least 2.5 stars out of 4. I feel inclined to give three stars but may not be able to fully justify it objectively only subjectively. There's a good, deep spooky feel, almost gothic suspense, sometimes in the movie. That's what keeps me coming back to watch this movie on dvd from time to time.

There are some loose ends and I wonder if the producers and director were contemplating a sequel in advance?
The biggest loose end is the vampire monster, Dwight Renfield. He's never explained. The movie gets a kudos for putting a new and different twist on the vampire storyline. This vampire is no count dracula nor a nice guy from Forks, Washington. Dwight Renfield is truly a monster inside and out, able to quickly reveal its truly horrific monster demonic face or just as quickly return to the handsome man's face he once possessed as a human being. Just as fascinating, this vampire employs human aviation technology, a Cessna Skymaster 337, propellar, tandem-twin-engined airplane to traverse between isolated rural airfields scattered from Maine to northern Virginia. Rick Dees examines a photo album inside Dwight's Cessna Skymaster 337 tandem, twin-engined, propellar airplane. The photo album proves that Dwight Renfield was once upon a time possibly a handsome, well-to-do, adventurous playboy of sorts from the late 1920s, judging by the style of the photographs. More, the human Dwight once loved a beautiful woman. How Dwight Renfield lost his humanity and morphed into a vampiric demonic monster remains a mystery.