One night he climbs up on her roof to snap a picture of her with a client but instead sees her murdered and almost becomes a victim himself. When he rips off the killer's satanic mask, he sees that it is his high school history teacher (Allen Garfield).

The investigating police captain (Richard Roundtree) doesn't believe him, but he also doesn't bother to investigate or search Garfield's house. So Rydall enlists the aid of burned-out former cop Elliott Gould and eventually they have a showdown with satanist Garfield and his dimwitted brother Michael J. Pollard.

The film is very low budget, with almost all the dialogue dubbed over and the sleazy gore quite ludicrous.

Add to that the laconic phoned-in performances of nearly everyone involved — especially Gould, who's in about 10 minutes of the movie, despite his top billing — and you have a film guaranteed to put you to sleep, if you're not kept awake by laughter at all the wrong scenes.

"Night Visitor" is rated R for violence, sex, nudity and profanity.