Review of Nightfall

This is one of the movies that falls into my category of "neat little movie", one of the personal favorites that I just happen to like for my own reasons. Admittedly, I often have a soft spot for films that get roundly panned by others, but have (in my opinion) redeeming values in their style, story, or strangeness. I think this movie stands on it's own as a reasonably well done film, and frankly I don't understand why people dislike like it so much. I can only figure that as a science fiction film with essentially no special effects, and no nonsense like aliens, star ships, exploding planets, etc., modern audiences just don't find it that interesting. The film is well cast with solid actors, it has some really good performances, and I'm just sorry it's disappeared into obscurity the way it has, it should have been a cult classic.