When I watched NIGHT WARNING (what a terrible nonsensical title!), I had a vivid sense of deja vu because the movie reminded me a lot of EPITAPH, a movie about a psycho mother who torments her daughter. Though EPITAPH was made after NIGHT WARNING, I saw EPITAPH first and still prefer that one over NW. Unlike EPITAPH, which had a creepy voyeuristic aspect to it that fitted the story, NIGHT WARNING looks like a TV movie (with a couple of nude scenes thrown in) and never creates a level of creepiness that EPITAPH achieved. The main story-line, about the demented sheriff going after the kid because he thinks the teenager is gay, was stretching the whole crux of the movie to the point of ridiculousness. The story ended up looking like a bloody THREE'S COMPANY episode. Plus, the sheriff was a total nutcase and was more scary than the demented mother, who was supposed to be the main villain. All in all, I have to say that the movie was almost totally forgettable. Not scary. Too long. Contrived. And the acting, except for a few actors, was mostly bad.
