Review of Nightmare

Nightmare (1981)
4/10
Gorehounds beware !
15 April 1999
Okay, this for you European guys who read that wonderful book "Spaghetti Nightmares", in Italian or English translation. In Scavolini's comments, he implied his movie was a cult movie in France, which is far from reality. It's true the movie was released with a wonderful poster (a screaming face made out of blood-blots, looks better than it sounds) which went out in a postcard (I saw it in a Parisian postcards-seller !) under the title "Cauchemars à Daytona Beach", but the movie had no more success than its kindred, though it's still out on video in an unrated version (No censorship in Phroggyland !) and, despite many screenings at double-feature shows, is NO cult movie like "Evil Dead" or "Maniac". Not that it's bad. In my own video guide, I rated it as honest-to-god fare for Gorehounds with a good lead actor, but nothing more (and nothing less).
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