I have heard for years about BLACK LIGHT curiously enough because it's one of the movies where in Italy Michael Ironside was dubbed by the voice dubber of Clint Eastwood in nearly all his films and coincidentally that voice dubber died a month before I saw this movie (July 2023). I didn't saw this movie for the dubber but because Ironside is one of the guys for which I try to look for and watch all his movies because he is sometimes better than the movies he does but here it wasn't the case.
Sharon Avery (Tahnee Welch) it's a psychic that is the target of jokes by the police and even her husband Larry (Currie Graham) can't believe her anymore. This goes on until somehow Sharon's visions attract the attention of an unnamed serial killer and she seems to have a connection with the killer. Inspector Frank Schumann (Michael Ironside) investigates, and trouble follows also for the viewer's patience.
The first problem of this movie is that the lead looked like a caricature and not like a real woman. For having some istances of this, in the beginning Sharon is working with the police on the case of a missing little that she finds murdered in an alley where she thought the boy was there waiting.
Second the movie was so full of plot holes that you can drive a truck through them. Later when Sharon loses eyesight she tries to drown in the pool but suddenly her sight returns and she has the vision of a girl murdered in a park, and then she goes to the police for risolving the murder. And yet the police is so stupid to accept only her vision when in the real world they actually want proof. Schumann in fact goes in the park and finds the girl murdered, and now Schumann is probably the only one who believes Sharon.
Third there is the ending that goes on and on and on and on. The killer arrives to Sharon's house and he chases her, and we are treated to a ridiculous cat and mouse chase with a killer blinder than her victim that knows very well her way all through her house. After Frank Schumann arrives he is nearly killed by the killer but survives only to be killed again and this time definitely. And then there is a moment that seriously defies logic. When Schumann is nearly dying by the pool Sharon is under water hiding from the killer, she then notices a gun on the floor of the pool and you wouldn't certainly expect this but she fires a shot from under the water and shoots the killer a few seconds after he killed Schumann... how irrealistic can you get? After staying underwater for so long the gun should have stopped working but nope, it continues working just for making the viewer scratch his head.
Overall a terrible thriller not recommended even for die hard fans of the genre or fans of bad movies because it's not even worth it. My 2 would be only for Ironside's performance because he tried despite probably knowing he was in a bad movie and couldn't get out of it. But for the rest, all worthless.
Sharon Avery (Tahnee Welch) it's a psychic that is the target of jokes by the police and even her husband Larry (Currie Graham) can't believe her anymore. This goes on until somehow Sharon's visions attract the attention of an unnamed serial killer and she seems to have a connection with the killer. Inspector Frank Schumann (Michael Ironside) investigates, and trouble follows also for the viewer's patience.
The first problem of this movie is that the lead looked like a caricature and not like a real woman. For having some istances of this, in the beginning Sharon is working with the police on the case of a missing little that she finds murdered in an alley where she thought the boy was there waiting.
Second the movie was so full of plot holes that you can drive a truck through them. Later when Sharon loses eyesight she tries to drown in the pool but suddenly her sight returns and she has the vision of a girl murdered in a park, and then she goes to the police for risolving the murder. And yet the police is so stupid to accept only her vision when in the real world they actually want proof. Schumann in fact goes in the park and finds the girl murdered, and now Schumann is probably the only one who believes Sharon.
Third there is the ending that goes on and on and on and on. The killer arrives to Sharon's house and he chases her, and we are treated to a ridiculous cat and mouse chase with a killer blinder than her victim that knows very well her way all through her house. After Frank Schumann arrives he is nearly killed by the killer but survives only to be killed again and this time definitely. And then there is a moment that seriously defies logic. When Schumann is nearly dying by the pool Sharon is under water hiding from the killer, she then notices a gun on the floor of the pool and you wouldn't certainly expect this but she fires a shot from under the water and shoots the killer a few seconds after he killed Schumann... how irrealistic can you get? After staying underwater for so long the gun should have stopped working but nope, it continues working just for making the viewer scratch his head.
Overall a terrible thriller not recommended even for die hard fans of the genre or fans of bad movies because it's not even worth it. My 2 would be only for Ironside's performance because he tried despite probably knowing he was in a bad movie and couldn't get out of it. But for the rest, all worthless.