Nightkill

Nightkill (1980)

Your throat dries, heart pounds, flesh crawls and you panic...that is the fear of...

The wife of a wealthy industrialist finds herself caught-up in a web of intrigue & murder which was created by her own deceit. When she tries to escape the results of her actions, she too falls victim to deception.

Date of release
1980-12-18
TMDB
4.9 / 10 (16)
Runtime
1h 44m
Genres
Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Horror
Director
Ted Post

Casting

Interesting facts

Nightkill is a 1980 psychological thriller film directed by Ted Post, and starring Jaclyn Smith, Mike Connors, James Franciscus, Robert Mitchum, Fritz Weaver, and Sybil Danning. It follows the wife of a corrupt Phoenix, Arizona industrialist, who finds herself attempting to cover up his murder after her lover poisons him to death.

Production

The film was directed by Ted Post, who had previously mainly worked as a television director for the series Peyton Place before directing the western film Hang 'Em High (1968) and the drama The Harrad Experiment (1973).

Jaclyn Smith and Robert Mitchum's casting in the film was announced in February 1980. The film marked Smith's first major feature role outside her leading role on the television series Charlie's Angels. James Franciscus and Mike Conners were subsequently cast the following month.

Nightkill was originally planned to be shot in Dallas, Texas, but instead took place in Phoenix, Arizona, with establishing photography beginning on March 31, 1980. Principal photography began between April 7 and April 14, 1980. Its production budget was estimated at $4 million. The film was funded by the German company Cine Artists GMBH, and featured a mainly British crew. Anthony B.

A private residence on Camelback Mountain was used as a central filming location for the Atwell residence, which was leased to the production for two months at a cost of $20,000. Following the completion of filming in the home, its owners told The Arizona Republic that that the production killed numerous houseplants due to the use of hot film lights and that "close to 100" pieces of wooden furniture had to be repaired, in addition to the home nee…

Mitchum was scheduled to shoot his part in the film over a period of ten days. Commenting on his participation in the film, Mitchum said: "I figured we'd spend three weeks in Arizona. It wouldn't tie me up for too long. They'd pay me by the hour."

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