Night Warning: Living or Dead?

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By Graves Hopper

Updated 18 March 2023

Artist	Martha Swope
Credit	ebay.com, front of photo, back of photo
License	pd
Desc	Susan Tyrrell in 1970
Usage	Public domain

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1982 film by William Asher

Night Warning

Released	1982 (40 years, 4 months ago)

Director	William Asher
Genre	horror film, teen film and LGBT-related film
Composer	Bruce Langhorne
Country of origin	United States of America

About 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 boy's sexually-repressed 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.

The film was nominated for a Saturn Award for the Best Horror Movie of 1982 by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, and also marked one of Bill Paxton's earliest roles.