Nightmare (1981 film)

Nightmare (also Nightmares in a Damaged Brain) is a 1981 slasher film about a deranged man, subject to a medical experiment, who leaves his New York City psychiatric institute to murder his ex-wife and child in Florida. The film gained instant notoriety among horror fans when it was banned in the UK as a video nasty and its distributor was sentenced to 18 months in prison for refusing to edit one second of violent footage. The film also garnered controversy for claiming in its press material that Tom Savini had provided the film's special effects, which Savini vehemently denied.

Directed by Romano Scavolini. Written by Romano Scavolini.

The dream you can't escape ALIVE! Taglines

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"?

• Now Paul, you... you believed in these drugs. And, you rebuilt this man. And you DID put him back out on the street. But now, he's out there killing people. And we can't have that. Now you find him... and you fix it.

Kathy the Babysitter

• C.J., what are you doing outta bed!

George Tutam

• You don't understand!

Taglines

• The dream you can't escape ALIVE!

Cast

• Baird Stafford - George Tatum
• Sharon Smith - Susan Temper
• C.J. Cooke - C.J. Temper

External links

• Nightmare quotes at the Internet Movie Database
• Nightmare at Rotten Tomatoes