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Nightmares [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

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  • Format: Colour, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
  • Language: English
  • Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: Severin
  • DVD Release Date: 28 Jun 2011
  • Run Time: 80 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B004VQRCFK
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 26,073 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)


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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Good Aussie slasher 26 Dec 2011
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Not to be confused with Romano Scavolini's infamous "Nightmare" (Nightmares In A Damaged Brain) comes this 80's Australian slasher/giallo. Although this may be mostly unknown, it's a very good horror and recommended. The story concerns young actress Helen (Jenny Neumann of Hell Night)who gets the part in a new play. However, she suffers flashbacks from her troubled childhood and soon after people are getting picked off by an unseen killer. This is a nice n sleazy slasher with some good direction & POV shots and quite high bodycount. The giallo type stalking sequences are effective, music good too and also are some impressive bloody death scenes. Although it may be totally obvious who the unseen killer is, that's not to say that there is no suspense. Infact there's plenty of suspense and atmosphere throughout. As said before it's a fairy sleazy affair so lots of nudity here that usually occurs before a brutal murder with glass shard. In all i consider this a decent slasher that's sure to please fans.
This DVD release from Severin is great too with nice extras including commentary,featurette on brief history of slashers and trailers.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars NIGHTMARES (1980): ausploitation sleaze 9 Sep 2012
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Jenny Neumann (Hell Night) plays an actress traumatised by the violent death of her mother. Years later she starts working at a theatre a maniac starts killing people with shards of glass. She witnesses the crimes in a series of gruesome hallucination.

Nightmares aka Stagefright sometimes gets criticised because it seems to attempt hiding the identity of the killer at the same time as there being no mystery from the opening scenes to the grand finale. But really it just isn't a mystery film. The killer is exactly who it appears to be. However, it is pretty sleazy, with our killer hunting down naked ladies. There's also plenty of hints at the role of the casting couch in the world of thesping. It's a good slasher with uniquely Australian brew of art and crudity, sort of like Fellini meets Benny Hill on the set of a giallo.

Extras include an audio commentary with The film's director, John Lamond and Not Quite Hollywood's, Mark Hartley. A Brief History of Slasher Films Featurette. the theatrical trailer and a set of John Lamond Trailers. The disc is region(1) and the presentation is in 2.39:1/16x9 widescreen. The print very good.
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Amazon.com: 3.2 out of 5 stars  6 reviews
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Great Collector's Item, but... 28 July 2011
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I'm very much into movies like "Pieces, "The Burning," "Friday the 13th," and all the other 80's American and Italian Slashers. If you're expecting great gore set pieces, "Nightmares" isn't it. It's got a few moments of interesting camera work and sex/nudity, but there's no mystery at all to who the killer is, thus not much suspense. Boring at times, to be honest. It's good to add to my collection, but as far as real entertainment factor goes, it's just okay.

Great Dvd Release: 5
Actual Movie: 2.5
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars If you like plentiful sex and violence in your horror... 10 July 2011
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Judge Daryl Loomis, DVD Verdict -- "I used to watch this movie as Stage Fright, which played heavily on cable when I was a kid. That was the cut version of the film, and I hadn't seen it in years, so I can't say with certainty what scenes were edited. It's definitely sex and violence that were excised and not plot, because the movie makes no more sense than it used to. Half the film is a bad theater production and the other half stalking scenes, but they don't fit together in any way. The acting is deeply subpar and the dialog doesn't help anyone. Severin does another great job with this release, following a pattern of quality they've refined over the years. The anamorphic image isn't perfect, but given how it used to look, it might as well be. The slate of extras may not be Severin's best, but it's not bad; a combative audio commentary between director John Lamond and historian Mark Hatley, a featurette on the history of the genre, and a trailer. Nightmares is sexually explicit and quite bloody, so it has that going for it. Just don't expect much in the way of direction, writing, or acting."
10 of 14 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Oddball, low-budget slasher film -- an Aussie gem! 1 Jun 2011
By Thomas M. Sipos - Published on Amazon.com
This is a low-budget Aussie gem. Released in 1983, at the peak of the slasher cycle, it remains true to formula.

Cathy, a little girl, is traumatized upon seeing her mother fornicating with an illicit lover. Later, Cathy's unsuspecting daddy bids goodbye as Cathy and mommy drive off on a road trip. Cathy awakens in the back seat of the car to espy the lover fondling mommy's thighs while she's driving. Cathy panics and intervenes. Mommy is thrown through the windshield in the resulting accident. When Cathy tries to drag mommy back into the car, she inadvertently slits mommy's throat against windshield shards.

Recovering in a hospital, Cathy overhears a nurse mention that Cathy killed her mom. Daddy accuses Cathy likewise, apparently ignorant or indifferent that his daughter was defending him from cuckoldom. With all that guilt and ingratitude, what's a girl to do?

Cathy attacks a hospital employee with a glass shard.

Do you begin to detect a familiar pattern?

Flash forward. Cathy grows into adulthood, changes her name to Helen (played by Jenny Neumann from HELL NIGHT), and becomes an actress who is cast in a theatrical "comedy about death."

Helen also dreams. Dreams about death. Which is curious, because a string of murders is plaguing the theater.

NIGHTMARE's stereotypical characters drawn from the world of theater jell well with what remains in many ways a traditional slasher film. Their superstitions and neuroses form the subtext for the slasher's psychosis. An actress traumatizes her peers by whistling backstage. After one murder, she is reminded, "You're to blame! You whistled! This production's jinxed!" The director is shocked upon seeing an actor in green. "Never wear green!" When not insulting his actors, he spouts artsy-fartsy gobbledygook. "The meaning of the lines doesn't matter. It's the juxtaposition and rhythm of the words." A foppish critic delights in writing negative reviews and hitting on both actors and actresses alike.

NIGHTMARES utilizes standard slasher film aesthetics. POV shots conceal the killer's identity. Jarring melodramatic music heralds ominous events. Characters turn stupid at the most inopportune times. The drunken critic, staggering through the theater's basement just as the killer bursts through a glass door, simply remarks, "Jesus, why'd you do that for? You scared the daylights out of me." But instead of fretting over this unusual entrance, the critic ignores his own query and adds, "Well don't just stand there. Help me find my lighter."

Whereupon the killer picks up a glass shard...

NIGHTMARES is a splendid slasher film, but not so clever as to defy expectations. If you can't guess the killer's identity early on, you haven't been watching the subgenre. Even so, NIGHTMARES does end on a surprise twist, similar to that in INTRUDER (1989).

NIGHTMARES is marred by crass sadism (victims require prolonged and repeated stabbings to die) and gratuitous nudity, but is an overall enjoyable excursion into the world of theater, delineating all its backbiting jealousies, backstage gossip, and petty power politics within a slasher film context. Jenny Neumann makes for a plucky Helen.

NIGHTMARES features very rough productions values. It's the sort of unpolished slasher effort that many critics deride as scrapings from under the bottom of the barrel. And yet the film's very roughness lends it an authentic sensibility. Aficionados of ultra-low-budget horror Z-films (e.g. DON'T LOOK IN THE BASEMENT) will find much merit in NIGHTMARES.
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