Nightmares
Directed by John D. Lamond
A young actress with a disturbing past may be murdering her castmates one by one. Helen’s had a rough life. When she tried to keep her mother’s lover from kissing mommy, she caused the crash that killed them both. Now years later, Helen’s an aspiring actress making her stage debut in a black comedy. But anytime someone makes a pass at her they wind up stabbed to death with a shard of glass. Is the drama queen prone to bloody hallucinations really insane, or is the stage set for a shocking final twist? Featuring a Hitchcockian-score composed by Queen’s Brian May.
A young actress with a disturbing past may be murdering her castmates one by one.
Cast: Jenny Neumann, Nina Landis, Gary Sweet
Member Reviews
ughh typical rubbish Australian low budget, low skill, low performance crap movies! I dont know any Australian who wants to watch Australian movie crap let alone pay for it or have it bombard our streaming services! As soon as I see Australian I switch off! Should be categorised as AU so Im not wasting so much time trying to find something to watch Wont be renewing if all I get is uk & au rubbish films.
i appreciate an Australian film that has no budget... but. it's to graduates. i feel gross watching actresses being exploited by a director.
personally I thought it boring and tedious, a shame, finally an Ozzy film with Ozzy actors 👎
More a genuine curio than truly entertaining, this one's a super trashy slasher during which Australian audiences can enjoy viewing local stars and personalities outside their usual context. The kills lack any real impact and the acting is entirely atonal but the cinematography occasionally makes up for things with a decent steadicam shot or well-timed Dutch angle. Brian May (not that one, as everyone has been pointing out) writes an almost overbearing score and the cues often seem entirely inappropriate given what's happening on screen. It's almost funny at first but rapidly becomes wearing given how often the main musical motif is repeated. There's a surprising amount of nudity, which adds to the trashy aesthetic but fails to generate much real interest in and of itself. The VHS cover art (matching the Shudder thumbnail) was striking back in the day but I don't think that even 12-year-old me would have found the movie contained therein particularly interesting.
Tedious and repetitive, Nightmares fails at both sordid sensationalism and sickening scares. The most terrifying part comes after the standard stabbing sequences as you slowly realise more interminable irrelevant dialog will drone till the next tin of red paint is cracked open. For a film apparently about theatre students, they missed an opportunity in casting people who could actually act.