English
The story centers on Richard Dees, a deeply cynical reporter from a trashy supermarket tabloid called The Inside View. Dees' current subject of investigation is the Night Flier, an apparent serial killer who travels between small airports in a Cessna Skymaster, gruesomely killing people in a way that leads Dees to think the man is a lunatic who believes himself to be a vampire.
After only a few days of interviewing witnesses and following the killer's trail in his own Cessna, Dees overtakes the Night Flier during a violent thunderstorm at Wilmington International Airport, and quickly learns that he is badly mistaken about his would-be quarry: it is, indeed, a vampire that is doing the killings. After Dees watches the Night Flier casually empty the bloody contents of his bladder into an airport urinal (or as much of this act as he can see reflected in a mirror), the creature warns off his "would-be biographer", destroys his photographic evidence, and leaves the mortally-shaken reporter amidst a scene of carnage to be arrested by the police.
The movie adaptation follows the original plot fairly closely (and maintains Dees' deeply unsympathetic nature), except for adding a rival in the form of up-and-coming female reporter, and changing Dees' ultimate fate.
Español
Richard Dees (Miguel Ferrer)
es un periodista veterano de la compañía Inside View, una famosa
empresa que se dedica a la publicación de artículos basados en lo
sobrenatural y demoníaco. Un día, Dees oye sobre un aviador nocturno que
sobrevuela los oscuros aeropuertos a media noche y asesina brutalmente a
sus víctimas, por lo que decide investigar sobre el personaje. A medida
que va investigando va descubriendo importantes pistas que le llevaran a
conocer el autentico rostro de el aviador nocturno. Durante la película
se irá enfrentando con una periodista que también quiere el caso.
También va conociendo pueblerinos que le ayudan con las pistas para dar
con el extraño ser.Ночной полёт
