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A mental patient embarks on a murder spree upon escaping from an institution.A mental patient embarks on a murder spree upon escaping from an institution.A mental patient embarks on a murder spree upon escaping from an institution.
John L. Watkins
- Man with Cigar
- (as John Watkins)
Bill Milling
- Paul Williamson
- (as William Milling)
William Kirksey
- George's Father
- (as William S. Kirksey)
Candese Marchese
- Candy, the Jogger
- (as Candy Marchese)
- Director
- Writer
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- TriviaIn some sources Tom Savini is credited as the film's make-up effects artist and some video prints still bear his credit as "Special Effects Director". Based on Savini, he was only a consultant and threatened to sue over the use of his name to promote the film. Savini said that what he did consisted solely of advice: "I'd tell them that something needed to look more organic, or how something should be lit. But none of the effects work in the film is my own". Savini's name is excluded from the credits in the subsequent Blu-ray releases (U.S. "35th Anniversary Edition" from Code Red and the UK release from 88 Films).
- GoofsAccording to his patient record displayed on the computer screen, George suffers from "schizophernia" (spelling error).
- Quotes
Man with Cigar: SORRY? You lose a dangerously psychotic patient from a secret experimental drug program, and all you can say is "I'm sorry"?
- Alternate versionsThe original UK cinema version was heavily cut by the BBFC with edits made to closeups of throat slitting and repeated stabs during the telephone murder, the pick axe killing, and axe blows (including blood frothing from a man's head) during the climactic flashback. The film was then listed and banned as an official video nasty, and a successful prosecution was brought against the distributing company World of Video 2000 in 1984 for releasing an unauthorized video version (which was 1 min longer than the cut cinema print). The film was finally granted a video certificate in 2002 though the print submitted was an edited U.S version, which restores the ice pick murder and around 1 minute of dialogue scenes but still has edits to the throat slashing/stabbing scene and some brief cuts to the climactic flashback nightmare murder.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Terror on Tape (1985)
- SoundtracksNecessary Evil
Sung by Those Northern Women
Music and Lyrics by Jack Eric Williams
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An Ugly, Nasty Movie
It's best to know going into it that Nightmare is a sleazy and reprehensible film with just about no redeeming value whatsoever. Not only is the lead character a sweaty, disgusting murderer but his victims aren't much better and you might find yourself rooting for him to dispatch them as quickly as possible.
Baird Stafford plays George, a mentally unwell man who is let out of an asylum and goes off to search for new victims. But not before stopping off at a scuzzy Times Square peepshow.
The effects are impressive and some of the best and most stomach-churning in the genre, but there's an unpleasant coldness to the film that'll really upset your stomach.
Baird Stafford plays George, a mentally unwell man who is let out of an asylum and goes off to search for new victims. But not before stopping off at a scuzzy Times Square peepshow.
The effects are impressive and some of the best and most stomach-churning in the genre, but there's an unpleasant coldness to the film that'll really upset your stomach.
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- kittyelizabethfarmer
- Jan 29, 2022
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