NightmaresInspired by the success of John Carpenter's Halloween, director John Lamond makes his own entry into the slasher genre.
Mainly set in the theatre world, the film starts with a brief prelude where a young girl witnesses the death of her mother in a gruesome car accident.
The girl grows up to be an actress with an unhealthy fascination with shards of glass. It's not long before the bodies begin to pile up, offering a queasy array of stabbings and castrations.
Notedly, Nightmares features critic John-Michael Howson playing to type as a bitchy theatre critic, which was rumoured to be a thinly veiled attack on The Age film reviewer, Colin Bennett.
30th anniversary screening.
"This is the most repulsive, offensive, degrading, gory, depraved and horrifying movie ever made" Daily News, New York
