Night Flight Plus Review 2023: Cost, Plans, and More

Is Night Flight Plus good?

The Night Flight Plus streaming service rules, especially if you’re old enough to recall staying up late in the 1980s to watch Night Flight, the USA Network’s three-hour block of cartoons, cult movies, music videos, artist interviews, and other cool, strange media. Night Flight Plus has all of that content and more, and you can watch it whenever you want for under $6 a month. The nostalgia is delicious—and this deal’s a steal.

Our only complaints about Night Flight Plus are its basic, user-unfriendly app. While it doesn’t ruin the overall experience, it can make using Night Flight Plus annoying. Read on for more details.

Night Flight Plus pros and cons

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• Deals and promotions
• Plans and pricing
• Night Flight Plus vs. the competiton
• Movies and shows
• Specs and features

Night Flight Plus deals and promotions

There are no active Night Flight Plus deals or promotions—but you can save around 30% with the service’s annual subscription option. Night Flight Plus also offers a free 7-day trial.

Night Flight plans and pricing

Night Flight Plus is one of the most affordable on-demand streaming TV services, whether or not you go with a monthly or annual subscription.

Night Flight Plus vs. the competition

The Night Flight Plus annual subscription isn’t just affordable, it’s also a tremendous value. Compared to similar streaming TV services, Night Flight Plus has a vast and varied catalog plus something we’ve never seen before—unlimited simultaneous streams—for the lowest price.

But all of the competing services listed above have solid value and affordable pricing. If you want pure horror with classic and new titles, Shudder is the best horror streaming service. If you need cheaper horror thrills, Screambox has 35% fewer titles but costs only $4.25–$6.99 monthly.

For the cream of the cult movie crop, with more stylistic variety (but abundant horror films), we recommend the Arrow Player. If cheesy schlock horror and late-night comedies are two of your favorite film flavors, try Full Moon Features.

Night Flight Plus movies, shows, and live channels

The Night Flight Plus library is deep and diverse. The service doesn’t advertise its library size, and it’s difficult to count because Night Flight Plus treats every clip, cartoon, episode, film, and music video as an individual title. But JustWatch.com says that Night Flight Plus has 912 movies and shows.¹ That’s more than Shudder and Arrow Player, the next two largest niche streaming services in the above table.

Movies on Night Flight Plus

Movies on Night Flight Plus (partial list)

Shows on Night Flight Plus

Don’t expect the usual TV series from Night Flight Plus—just enjoy the strange variety. Among the 18 non-Night Flight shows on the service, you’ll find anime, classic TV, conspiracy theories, heavy metal, and horror hosts. Night Flight Plus also has sex advice and workout videos from a half-decade ago for the boomers.

Shows on Night Flight Plus (complete list)

Night Flight Plus original shows

The best shows on Night Flight Plus are, wait for it, the original Night Flight episodes.

For an authentic ’80s nostalgia trip, Night Flight Plus has eight “as aired” Night Flight episodes with the original commercials. You’ll also find tons of Night Flight clips, interviews, and 10–50 minute episodes from the show’s early-’90s second life and its 2018 incarnation on IFC.

Original shows on Night Flight Plus

• Night Flight (8 original as-aired episodes)
• Night Flight IFC Series
• Night Flight Slumber Party
• Night Flight Audio Interviews

Night Flight Plus live channels

Night Flight Plus has two 24/7 live channels—Night Flight TV and Night Flight TVi: Independent Music Video Channel—playing ad-free content from the service’s library.

These channels lack an onscreen program guide, playback controls (so no pausing, rewinding, or fast-forwarding), and (on the Android version) on-screen identification of what’s playing. NightFlightPlus.com has 24 hours of programming info, we don’t love going outside of the app to get this information.

We still adore ad-free live channels (only Night Flight Plus and Shudder have ’em) for recreating the late-night Night Flight binge-watch sessions of our youth. (For maximum nostalgia, you can even call your favorite sleepover buddy from back then.*)

Concert films and music docs on Night Flight Plus

Concert films and music documentaries on Night Flight Plus (partial list)

Night Flight Plus also has content hubs for contemporary indie labels like Sub Pop, Mexican Summer, Drag City, Sacred Bones, RVNG Intl., Dais, and Dark Entries. These contain video profiles for the label’s artists, including music videos. (Incidentally, these vids comprise the majority of content on Night Flight TVi.)

Night Flight Plus specs and features

We already know that Night Flight Plus has unlimited simultaneous streams, which is outstanding. But let’s see what Night Flight Plus offers regarding simultaneous streams and offline viewing.

Night Flight Plus simultaneous streams

As we’ve said, Night Flight Plus is the only streaming TV service we know that has unlimited simultaneous streams. That’s pretty generous, since the industry standard is three streams.

Night Flight Plus offline viewing

Night Flight Plus does not allow downloads for offline viewing—probably due to music-licensing red tape.

Night Flight Plus app

The Night Flight Plus app has a frustrating, inconsistent user experience on virtually every device we used to test it.

Night Flight Plus supported devices

The Night Flight Plus app supports enough devices that you probably won’t need to buy a new one to use the service. Unfortunately, there’s no Night Flight Plus app for iOs, gaming consoles, or the NVIDIA SHIELD TV Pro. Smart TV users might be able to use the service via the TV’s internet browser, but this didn’t work on our Samsung QN90A smart TV.

Night Flight Plus video and audio quality

Night Flight Plus doesn’t list its streaming resolution. Based on our testing, the app appears to adjust quality depending on your internet speed.

We tested the Night Flight Plus app in six different configurations of screens, streaming devices, and internet connections.

Night Flight Plus testing details at a glance

In five out of six tests, our picture quality dipped below 1080p HD only when using our mobile data connection on the Samsung smartphone. That’s normal when you’re away from home.

The only other time we experienced a resolution dip was on older movies and shows that stream at their original resolution (720p or lower), which is also typical.

Night Flight Plus FAQ

Methodology

Our TV experts have spent hundreds of hours testing Night Flight Plus and other streaming services. For this article, we tested Night Flight Plus on three smart TVs, two streaming devices, one smartphone, one laptop, and four internet connections.

Also, we compared Night Flight Plus to competing services based on pricing, features, libraries, and more to deliver accurate, helpful recommendations to our readers. Check out the CableTV.com “How We Rank” page to learn more about our process.

Endnotes

JustWatch.com, “All Movies and Shows on Night Flight Plus.” Accessed August 17, 2023.