Night Fare

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sarah s @Sarah_Sanity 06/25/2020 Two friends run out before paying a taxi driver. A suspenseful night in Paris ensues with crooked cops, intense chases and confronting gore. The taxi driver is faceless, menacing and unnerving due to his silence and slow movements before he even gets violent. Scenes are mashed with the two friends arguing about their friendship, love triangle and past issues which is very effective, adding to the urgency. Score/soundtrack is great, adds to atmosphere at relevant times and the foreboding is increased by cuts to the taxi's metre that is always climbing after each brutal interaction. There is more to the taxi driver vigilante than you first suspect. Great film. See more 05/28/2020 Massively underrated horror thriller with a nice twist ending. It marries aspects of The Duel and Halloween but subverts them successfully. Way better than the audience score suggests, which is unusual. A solid 75% at least. See more 03/23/2018 If there were a little more charisma, character and storyline development, the movie could have been excellent...but it does still manage to remain suspenseful enough to keep watching and actually makes an interesting point in a slightly hackneyed way. See more 03/03/2018 One of the most awful movies I have ever seen. Terrible acting. non-existant story line. The taxi keeps following them and so many bits of the story are missing. Poorly planned, produced and executed. Dont watch this trash on netflix. See more 05/23/2016 Unbelievable ! Fabulous ! Great movie ! See more 11/01/2015 Oh Night Fare, how i wanted to like you. And how much I actually enjoyed you until you pissed it all away on shitty post-ending bullshit. Your sound design is so good with deep vibrant sfx and an amazing synth score that seems just out of the grimiest parts of the 80s, your lighting is clever and your premise so intriguing and yet you piss it all away... [spoilers] Night fare to put it bluntly is a story about a killer cab driver. If it were just that it would have been awesome, and for an hour and ten minutes it is exactly that. Jason Vorhees as a murderous cab driver who stalks two ne'er-do-wells after they shaft him out of a 50 euro fare. He stalks, he prowls, he hits them with a car, he dismembers some hoodlums they take refuge with with a fucking katana, baits them out and eventually takes one of them into his creepy black cab as 'payment', only at that point turning the meter off. But unfortunately that is not the ending, though it should have been. You see, our cabbie Jason is actually a ninja vigilante who prowls the streets at night in search of wrongs to right, he is no slasher but basically the Punisher. And he takes his latest victim (one of our leads) to train him in spiritual ninja night cabbie stuff as have his ancestors for the past 500 years, something we are told and partly shown in comic book Tales of the Black Freighter aesthetics for twenty fucking minutes. We hear our slasher and his ancestors tell their origin stories in excruciating detail, we see a training montage with voiceover and other assorted bullshit that manages to squander every ounce of goodwill that we had towards an otherwise enjoyable movie. It is very, very sad. Do yourself a favour and, if you watch this movie, turn it off once the 'killer' takes his victim and clocks off the meter. You'll regret it otherwise. See more Read all reviews

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