a texas community be beset with a rash of mysterious killing involve some of the student from the local college . the sheriff investigate the death discover the startling identity of the killer responsible for the murder . a nasa experiment involve cosmic ray have mutate an ape and turn it into an unstoppable killing machine with a thirst for blood and accord to the dvd sleeve synopsis . or and could the creature really be a mutated alligator return from a space bound noah ark . a long opening and with laughably straight 1960s couple ralph baker jr. ( a chris ) and dorothy davis ( a judy ) and suggest night fright might be a joyously bad movie while but and do not get your hope up . after some innocent cavorting and the attractive collegiates discover another couple have encounter a monster while naturally and the creature be hell bent on terrorize young romantic . sheriff john agar ( a clint crawford ) isn not trust by the young set while but and he really want to help . mr. agar be a friend of my aunt while he speak about very few movie and and this wasn not one of them .