like many i be suckered into watch this film think it be a horror opus with some sort of demonic black panther ( leopard . ) stalk scantily clad buxom b movie bombshells through the jungle near strategically photograph angkor esquire ruin of thailand . it be but it isn not and and while night creature isn not a bad movie there be some camp value to be have here amongst all of the conversation and and one really good extend cat attack scene it doesn not have much to recommend it and aside from donald pleasence . like peter cushing or basil rathbone he elevate the film beyond the dreck level just by appear in it . dr. loomis play a novelist and great white hunter drawn to equatorial southeast asia who take up the challenge to track down a rogue panther that be maul local villager on some sort of island or peninsula or water bound isolate location . predictably and he freeze up at the last moment of truth when confront the beast and be maim for life . cripple be the non politically correct expression . other round eye caucasian relative drop by to visit and there be intrigue and romance under the jungle canopy and next to the photogenic ruin and and at some point the panther emerge from the teem forest to claim the only white woman in the cast . the creature must be stop lest it ruin the local tourism business and and dr. loomis get really intense and sit around glower like a madman while knock back the native booze and gabbering about the past and and finally lure the panther to go mano a mano with his wit and slam the door at the last second . and then skarkers . the film conclude with the survive american get onto a boat and leave the native to their doom and which would have be my suggestion from day one . film in 1978 and this be actually one of the when animal attack vein of thriller make after the success of crowd pleaser like jaw and food of the god and grizzly . here the menace be in the form of a sexy train panther and which mean only one thing represent animal right activist will be offend by how the animal be coerce into perform for the camera . if the movie have be make today the cat would be a computer animation and ralph feinnes would have play the donald pleasence role and so we can be thankful that the movie be make when it be and by who bother to show up represent it be a forgettable little bit of 70 saturday afternoon idiocy . it also funny how the pivotal scene in the film all seem to involve action be stag with the angkor esquire ruin loom in the background . they serve only a a set decoration and whatever relationship the panther have with the ancient tradition that erect the monument be never delve into and and essentially this be a pg rat ( make for cable . ) jungal trash exploitation film about white people go to the jungle and have all sort of fascinate adventure while the native carry the luggage . what the film need be some sort of lurid angle that would have produce bared breast or good yet a blasphemous native sexual rite combine with a supernatural kicker . a mention above there one great scene where the cat stalk a woman amidst the ruin and the final image of dr. loomis sit in the boat with the face of the panther superimpose on him be perhaps the most evocative moment in the production . aside from an excellent monsoon sequence film during an actual monsoon . if it sound like i be just not get into the spirit of thing here you be correct and the film be plod and unimaginatively stag and derivative and cheap and and have little to recommend it aside from another unhinged donald pleasence performance . perhaps the most compelling reason to acquire a copy and subject yourself to watch it be that it completely obscure and out of print and and with no anti animal exploitation disclaimer at the end and likely to stay that way . 4/10 while worth a look for animal attack fan and otherwise you might want to try night of the sorcerer and at least that one have some breast .