the major problem with night creature be that the creature be actually a very cuddly look black panther who clearly be quite well behave throughout production . though he suppose to be a powerful and deadly force of nature and he actually come across a a rather dopey circus creature who wouldn not hurt a fly . axel macgregor ( twitchy donald pleasance ) be a big game hunter who bring the animal to his private island and where it proceed to terrorize socrates and the family scotty dog and distaff daughter georgia and leslie ( jennifer rhodes and nancy kwan ) and granddaughter peggy ( lesly fine ) and and macho tour guide ross ( ross hagen ) . the film lack suspense or chill and and an over reliance on slow motion and point of view shot and and narrative voice over result in a technically inept final product . to date and this be the penultimate feature from director lee madden and whose next film and ghost fever and be even bad .