MOVIES - April 27, 1987

An attorney for Night Stalker defendant Richard Ramirez said a new movie titled “The Night Stalker” will hurt his client’s chances for a fair trial. Night Stalker was a name given to Ramirez when he was active in 1985. “The Night Stalker,” a Striker Production Corp. release starring Charles Napier, opened throughout Southern California on Friday after prominent newspaper and television advertising. The movie is “about a wacko walking around strangling hookers,” explained its director, Max Kleven, who added: “I didn’t read that much about it (the case) . . . (The film) does have satanic symbolism and some devil worship, there is some of that, yeah.”