The Night Flier (also known as Stephen King's The Night Flier) is a 1997 American horror film based on the 1988 short story of the same name by Stephen King. Directed and co-written by Mark Pavia, the film stars Miguel Ferrer as Richard Dees, a tabloid reporter who, while investigating a series of murders committed in airfields, begins to suspect that the killer may be a vampire.

Plot

Richard Dees is a cynical tabloid reporter whose motto is "Never believe what you publish and never publish what you believe." Merton Morrison, his editor-in-chief at the tabloid Inside View, assigns him to investigate a series of murders at rural airfields. The killer is a mysterious pilot who appears to believe he is a vampire and is registered under the name of Dwight Renfield. Dees initially refuses the story, and Morrison assigns it novice reporter Katherine Blair. Dees later changes his mind and agrees to investigate after two more murders are committed at another airfield, the victims drained of their blood. Blair is outraged when Morrison gives the story to Dees, who begins using his own light aircraft to retrace the killer's path.