Nightmare (1981 film)


Nightmare also released as Nightmares in a Damaged Brain is a 1981 slasher film directed by Romano Scavolini. Nightmare gained instant notoriety among horror fans when it was banned in the UK as a video nasty and its distributor was sentenced tomonths 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 films special effects, which Savini vehemently denied.

Georges exwife, Susan Temper Sharon Smith, young son C.J. C.J. Cooke, and the family babysitter begin to receive hangup calls, which none of them realize is George making sure his family is home. The closer George gets to his destination, the more gruesome his murders become and the memories of his first childhoodmurder intensify.Donning an old man mask to conceal his identity, George makes his way into his old house with an rock pick, killing the babysitter, and goes after his son and two daughters Kim Patterson, and Tammy Patterson, who have taken refuge in their mothers bedroom on the second floor. Young C.J. manages to shoot George with a revolver through a hole hacked into the door, causing him to fall back down the staircase. As he lies dying, George has a full recall of his childhood, where upon catching his father William Kirksey cheating on his mother Christina Keefe with a mistress, he brutally murders both of them with an felling axe. ........

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