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Native American themes combined with supernatural and eco-gothic elements dominate this Eureka ‘Killer Creature’ double feature, presenting two films from the 1970s on Blu-ray for the first time: NIGHTWING starring Nick Mancuso and David Warner, plus SHADOW OF THE HAWK starring Chief Dan George and Jan-Michael Vincent.
NIGHTWING (1979) was perhaps unjustly promoted as a horror film upon its theatrical release and although it doubtlessly contains elements of horror there is more to it than meets the eye. When Youngman Duran (Nick Mancuso), a deputy on a Hopi Indian reservation in New Mexico, is tasked with investigating a string of bizarre cattle mutilations initial enquiries lead to nothing. However, embittered old medicine man Abner Tasupi (George Clutesi), who raised the inquisitive Youngman following the deaths of his parents, shows the young deputy a so-called Hopi sand painting he’s currently working on – depicting a spell that the universe would end that