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Randolph Cohlan both wrote and directed the unrelentingly grim Night Shadow. Brenda Vance plays a prodigal daughter who comes home after long absence. En route, she picks up mysterious hitchhiker. Once she reaches her home town, her passenger disappears into night; shortly afterwards, a series of brutal murders occurs. Held responsible for bringing on this killing spree, Brenda sets about to catch the murderer herself.,