Nightmares (1983 film)

Nightmares is a 1983 American horror anthology film directed by Joseph Sargent, and starring Emilio Estevez, Lance Henriksen, Cristina Raines, Veronica Cartwright and Richard Masur. The film is made up of four short films based on urban legends the first concerns a woman who encounters a killer in the backseat of her car the second concerns a video gameaddicted teenager who is consumed by his game the third focuses on a fallen priest who is stalked by a pickup truck from hell and the last follows a suburban family battling a giant rat in their home.

After Lisa Raines puts her children to bed, she discovers that shes out of cigarettes. Her husband Joe Lambie forbids her to go to the store, but she sneaks out anyway and heads down the canyon.Lisa gets the cigarettes and begins home only to realize that shes almost out of gas. All the gas stations appear to be closed. Finally, she stops at an out of the way station and out comes an attendant William Sanderson, who just happens to perfectly match the killers description on the radio. She gets increasingly alarmed as the attendant, who seems to be studying her car and its occupant, suddenly lunges at the car with the gas nozzle. He drags her out of the car, draws a pistol and fires to protect her from the real murderer Lee Ving, who was hiding in her back seat. ........

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