Night Warning

Night Warning
Night Warning (1982) released as Butcher Baker Nightmare Maker
Directed by	William Asher
Produced by	Richard Carrothers Dennis Hennessy Stephen Breimer
Written by	Stephen Breimer Boon Collins Alan Jay Glueckman
Starring	Jimmy McNichol Susan Tyrrell Bo Svenson Marcia Lewis
Music by	Bruce Langhorne
Cinematography	Robbie Greenberg
Edited by	Ted Nicolaou
Distributed by	Comworld Pictures
Release date	January 1, 1982 (1982-01-01)
Running time	96 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Night Warning (originally titled Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker) is a 1982 American exploitation horror film directed by William Asher, and starring Susan Tyrrell, Jimmy McNichol, and Julia Duffy. Framed as a contemporary Oedipus tale, the plot focuses on a teenager who, raised by his neurotic aunt, finds himself at the center of a murder investigation after she stabs a man to death in their house. The boy's sexually-repressed aunt secretly harbors incestual feelings for him, while meanwhile a homophobic detective investigating the crime irrationally believes the murder to be a result of a homosexual love triangle.

The film was nominated for a Saturn Award for the Best Horror Movie of 1982 by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, and also marked one of Bill Paxton's earliest roles.

Billy Lynch (Jimmy McNichol) is a high school student whose parents died in a car accident and has been raised by his aunt, Cheryl (Susan Tyrrell), who is overly protective of him. A gifted basketball player, Billy is offered a chance at a scholarship to attend the University of Colorado, but Cheryl dismisses the idea, assuming that Billy will stay with her to "contribute." At school, Billy is bullied by one of his basketball teammates, Eddie (Bill Paxton), who is jealous of Billy's close friendship with their coach, Tom Landers (Steve Eastin), while Julia (Julia Duffy), the school's journalism photographer, begins to take romantic interest in Billy.