Night Warning


Night Warning originally titled Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker is a 1982 American exploitation horror film directed by William Asher, and starring Susan Tyrrell, Jimmy McNichol, and Julia Duffy. Framed as a contemporary Oedipus tale, the plot focuses on a teenager who, raised by his neurotic aunt, finds himself at the center of a murder investigation after she stabs a man to death in their house. The boys sexuallyrepressed aunt secretly harbors incestual feelings for him, while meanwhile a homophobic detective investigating the crime irrationally believes the murder to be a result of a homosexual love triangle.

Billy Lynch Jimmy McNichol is a high school student who has been raised by his aunt since age three, after his parents died in a violent car accident. His Aunt Cheryl Susan Tyrrell is overly protective of her nephew. A gifted basketball player, Billy is offered a chance at a scholarship to attend the University of Colorado, but Cheryl dismisses the idea, assuming that Billy will stay with her to contribute. At school, Billy is bullied by one of his basketball teammates, Eddie Bill Paxton, who is jealous of Billys close friendship with their coach, Tom Landers Steve Eastin, while Julia Julia Duffy, the schools journalism photographer, begins to take romantic interest in Billy.On Billys seventeenth birthday, Cheryl changes her mind about the scholarship, and asks Billy to stop by the television repair shop to have the technician, Phil Brody, come by to look at their set. That night, after Phil works on their television, Cheryl makes aggressive sexual advances toward him when he refuses, Cheryl stabs him to death with a kitchen knife. Billy and Cheryls neighbor friend, Margie arrive immediately after the ordeal, and Cheryl claims Phil attempted to rape her. ........

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