***MAJOR SPOILERS*** You begin to realize later in the movie" Midnight Fear" that something very odd is going on between kidnap victim Jenny, August West, and her two abductors Paul, Craig Wesson, and his deft mute brother John, Page Fletcher, who just escaped with the help of his brother Paul from a mental institution for the criminally insane.
On the run from the law for the brutal murder and dismemberment of a young woman earlier in the film you would have expected them to do the same to the helpless Jenny but instead they don't? The two, mostly Paul, play some weird cat and mouse game with the terrified young girl that goes on for almost the entire movie! The most vicious crimes committed by the brothers like the butchering of Jenny's prized horse-Icy-and throat-slit murder of her utterly obnoxious and, for her, sex obsessed boyfriend David, Evan Richards, happened off screen as if they were too gruesome to expose the audience to. It's when the cop Det. Hanley, John Carradine, investigating the case is taken off it, for being drunk on the job, takes it upon himself, without authorization from his superiors, to track down the killers of the girl Nikki, Tammy Schneider, found murdered at the beginning of the movie that he somehow ends up at Jenny's house whom he suspects, rightfully so, may be the killer, or killers, next victim!
***SPOILERS*** The film "Midnight Fear" sets you as well as Det. Hanley up for a surprise ending to end all surprise endings in not just who the mysterious killer is but the really sick motivations behind his crimes. Det. Hanley had it half right in tracking down the murderous psychotic the other half in just who the murderer really is, which he completely overlooked, ended up costing him his, as well as almost everyone else in the films cast, life.
Not to be missed if you can find a DVD or VHS copy of "Midnight Fear" or if it ever comes on cable TV. The movie will have you completely dumbfounded in what's happening in it and who the killer is. It's those last shocking and nail biting 10 or 15 minutes of the film that will make all the slow moving and somewhat confusing events that lead up to killer's true identity and the reasons for his crimes well worth your wait.