Nightmares (1980 film)

Nightmares is a 1980 Australian horror film, directed by John D. Lamond. It is also known as Stage Fright.

A young girl named Cathy Jenny Neumann tries to keep her mother from making out with a man while driving one day, and she inadvertently causes her mothers death in the ensuing crash. Sixteen years later, Cathy is now named Helen and has become a psychotic actress. Since her mother died with a shard of glass in her throat, Helen begins hacking through the cast of her new play, Comedy of Blood, in similar fashion.Nightmares should have been a lot better. We used the Steadicam camera for the first time in Australia on that. It was all right, but it didnt have any story. The technique was all right. Brian Mays music was great.. It was dumped by the distributor. Noone tried, nobody did anything. But it should have been better. Because it was a real quickie. I had the chance to make a real quickie, they said if you dont take the money well give it to somebody else... That was back in the old tax regime. You had to get the money, make the film, be finished by a certain time, you couldnt take longer. ........

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