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Nightwing (1979)

Nightwing poster
Directed by
Arthur Hiller
Genre
horror film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 45m
Rated
PG
Rating
4.8 of 10 from 43 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A group of people on a Native American reservation face attacks from a swarm of vampire bats. A deputy and a scientist team up to stop the creatures before they kill more people.

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What happens

Nightwing is a 1979 American horror film directed by the Canadian filmmaker Arthur Hiller. The screenplay was written by Martin Cruz Smith, Steve Shagan and Bud Shrake, based on the 1977 novel of the same title by Smith. The movie's tagline is "Day belongs to man, but night is theirs!" It was one of many imitators of the 1975 film Jaws. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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