Nightmare (1981)
(Nightmares in a Damaged Brain)
Country: US/IT
Technical: col 97m
Director: Romano Scavolini
Cast: Baird Stafford, Sharon Smith
Synopsis:
A mental patient subject to nightmares embarks on a murder spree on his release, but one family proves particularly hard to kill.
Review:
Like many of the so-called 'nasties', this works on an alienation premise to render the contents viewable: you cannot follow what is actually going on until it all becomes clear at the end, and so you are not emotionally involved. Nightmares don't really come into it and it has its longueurs before the double climax, much of the time borrowing from cod Freudianism and the stalker subgenre. Graphic highlights include an ice pick in the back and an operatic decapitation.
(Nightmares in a Damaged Brain)
Country: US/IT
Technical: col 97m
Director: Romano Scavolini
Cast: Baird Stafford, Sharon Smith
Synopsis:
A mental patient subject to nightmares embarks on a murder spree on his release, but one family proves particularly hard to kill.
Review:
Like many of the so-called 'nasties', this works on an alienation premise to render the contents viewable: you cannot follow what is actually going on until it all becomes clear at the end, and so you are not emotionally involved. Nightmares don't really come into it and it has its longueurs before the double climax, much of the time borrowing from cod Freudianism and the stalker subgenre. Graphic highlights include an ice pick in the back and an operatic decapitation.
(Nightmares in a Damaged Brain)
Country: US/IT
Technical: col 97m
Director: Romano Scavolini
Cast: Baird Stafford, Sharon Smith
Synopsis:
A mental patient subject to nightmares embarks on a murder spree on his release, but one family proves particularly hard to kill.
Review:
Like many of the so-called 'nasties', this works on an alienation premise to render the contents viewable: you cannot follow what is actually going on until it all becomes clear at the end, and so you are not emotionally involved. Nightmares don't really come into it and it has its longueurs before the double climax, much of the time borrowing from cod Freudianism and the stalker subgenre. Graphic highlights include an ice pick in the back and an operatic decapitation.