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Nightmares

Nightmares (1983)

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Critic Reviews: 2
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In this murder mystery, a daughter begins to suspect that her father's death was not an accident after she observes her mother and a mortician during a seance. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

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Drama, Horror, Mystery & Suspense, Science Fiction & Fantasy

Aug 24, 1999

Universal Pictures

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Critic Reviews for Nightmares

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In general, though, the scripting is unimaginative, derivative, and desperately predictable.

January 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out
Tom Milne
Time Out
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Nothing spoils a horror story faster than a stupid victim. And Nightmares, an anthology of four supposedly scary episodes, has plenty of those.

August 30, 2004 Full Review Source: New York Times
Janet Maslin
New York Times
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In this quartet of scary tales, two stories work and two don't.

October 29, 2012 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide
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January 4, 2005 Full Review Source: StaciWilson.com
Staci Layne Wilson
StaciWilson.com

Plenty of short-story-type twists ensure that the ensuing drama plays second fiddle to cheap, unsatisfying pay-offs.

May 24, 2003 Full Review Source: Film4
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Nightmares is a well constructed anthology horror film that is very well acted and directed by Joseph Sargent. The stories are pretty entertaining and are fairly creepy in their tone and atmosphere. This is a far different anthology than Creepshow and it works well enough to keep the horror viewer entertained throughout due to its very good stories and immaculate directing. Some stories are a bit too short, and I think that the second one in particular could have been longer as I felt; there was a lot to offer. However despite this, this is a good film that ranks up there among the best horror anthologies. Like I said, this could have been a better movie, and it had the potential of being a memorable feature, but it offers only good entertainment that had plenty of potential to overcome its weaknesses. The stories are good, but there are things that could have been improved upon. However for what it is, this is a worthwhile anthology that is better than say Tales from the Darkside: The Movie, and follows the string of anthology films that has graced the genre of the 1980's. Of course Creepshow is a far better film, but Nightmares still gives you a great time for its hour and a half runtime despite its slightly underdeveloped ideas. You can just imagine how good this one could have been if the script would have been rewritten a few times. This is a film worth seeing for what it is, and it does manage to be quite good even if it is not memorable in the long run.
February 24, 2013
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Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski

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I saw most of this on TV one day a long time ago, I got to see the great part with Emilio Estevez and the video arcade! It was so cool, but I want to see the rest of the movie!
September 6, 2010
ajv2688
AJ Verser

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