Reviews

I actually saw this one in the cinema when it came out! I read that they wanted to make a sort of dutch Halloween...they failed i guess. I remember people laughing in the theater over all the gore.

Weird thing is: i really want to have a copy of this one, but it is hard to get. As a Dutch horrorfan this should be in the collection.

And i read this somewhere: Quentin Tarantino loves this movie! He took it to a cultfestival in texas...

As i was in the videostore i saw this box of a movie called NightWarriors. It looked familiar, turned out to be i saw it as a kid.

I must say even now it still is a very interesting thriller.

Police are on strike in Halifax which means a lot of scum are loose on the streets. A gang kills some people in a bar but one visitor manages to escape...and these guys don't want any witnesses. A couple of friendly people let him into theire house...and thats where it goes all wrong. The gang wants the witness...and the friendly people aint gonna turn him over. What follows is the gang trying to siege the building...and the people inside have to defend themselfs all night...

Looks indeed alot like Assault on Precinct 13, Escape from New York and a bit of the Warriors. Acting in the beginning of the movie is not that good, but further on in the movie it actually improves. Some solid action and it had me on the edge of my seat a couple of times. For all you people who want go out and rent this: i guess it is hard to get. In Europe it's called Night Warriors (why?), in US and Canada Siege or Self Defense.

I saw this movie the first time when i was 11 years old. We could receive an english broadcast station and when the weather was allright, the quality was great. So on this warm july night i saw the Warriors and it freaked me out. The chase-scenes in the subway were so damn scary! Was this the future? Ofcourse not but what did i knew as an 11 year old?

Many years later the BBC showed it with some extra cool scenes and now i own the DVD. Too bad there are no real extra's on this one, except the trailer. I would have loved Walter Hill's comment on it...how he sees this movie now.

Also there were riots in the cinemas when the Warriors came out back in 1979. Strange, because this movie is not very violent, rather thoughtful.

The story is simple: a gang called the Warriors are stuck behind enemy-lines after a big gangmeeting in the Bronx went wrong. Now all they have is one night to get back home, to Coney Island.

Great movie, watch it like a comic book. **** out of *****