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Genre: Horror
Rating: R
Release Date: 18-MAR-2008
Media Type: DVD

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #28565 in DVD
• Brand: SHEPIS,TIFFANY
• Released on: 2008-03-18
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 90 minutes

Customer Reviews

One Nightmare of a Movie
Don't let my review title confuse you: this movie was a nightmare in the WORST way. One of 2008's Eight Films to Die From, er For, this was my first installment. I'm hoping the other seven will be better.

We start off with a young woman getting an African fertility mask--from Rome. Guess they were all out of stock in Africa. Anyway, seems she and her husband are having troubles--albeit he can't PERFORM. What that has to do with a fertility mask escapes me, but I digress. So she thinks the mask is grotesque, and throws it in the floor. The next thing you know, she's taking a shower (nudge, nudge; wink, wink) and the lights go out, and she's scared, and she's running around the house, and it's pitch black outside (when not two minutes ago it was broad daylight), and then she...ZZZZZZzzzzzzz. You get the idea.

Nightmare Man has absolutely nothing going for it. If you can't figure it out in the first five minutes, you need to turn in your horror card. It wasn't funny. It wasn't campy. It wasn't suspenseful. It wasn't scary. It wasn't much of anything. The acting (as would be expected in most of these "period pieces,") was atrocious. The husband had the acting range of a turnip. The remainder of the cast, while still not having the stage presence of a rock, were a little better than he was.

Horribly directed by Rolfe Kanefsky (and edited even worse), the film is rated R for ridiculous, some feisty situations, and nudity. I would recommend having an amputation performed sans anethesia before I would recommend this movie.

I almost gave up on it
This movie was a pretty typical thriller with the cast of young sexy cannon fodder getting picked off one by because they do stupid things like go out for some fresh air when a mad killer is lurking about. Oh well, the girls were nice to look at. Anyway, it was pretty obvious what was going on here and then we reached the 69 minute mark. That's where the plot took a turn I wasn't expecting (someone else might but not me) and I thought this is really dumb and almost turned it off. Well I did not turn it off and I was rewarded because the final 20 mintues or so supplied an ending I for sure did not see coming and raised this above the 2 star rating I had in mind for it. NIGHTMARE MAN is not a great movie by any stretch of the imagination but for a lights out viewing with some friends and some snacks, this one delivers the goods and is not a bad way to spend 90 minutes. NIGHTMARE MAN is one of the more entertaining of the Horrorfest 2007 movies. There is some nudity in this one and every female in it takes off her shirt at least once. Most of the time it's done just for the sake of showing off for the camera. I won't give away the ending, but it's not typical of the Horrorfest movie endings, where everything is usually wrapped up nice and neatly for the forces of good.

Under-achievement
I will start by stating that I realize the After Dark Horror Fest movies are a vehicle for independent movies. That means these movies aren't exactly 80 million dollar blockbusters. However, I have seen several independent films that put the 80 million dollar blockbusters to shame.

Nightmare Man was a simple concept executed in a simple way. The premise is that a married couple orders some sort of African fertility mask. When the mask arrives, it's "icky" and they don't quite want to knock boots while wearing it. All of a sudden the movie is a slasher flick with the killer wearing.....you guessed it, the mask. The transition between story building (about 2 minutes) to full out slasher flick is done so abruptly that you barely know what just happened. The rest of the movie is just a slasher flick with zero originality.

Lets start with the mask. It just wasn't scary. It was goofy. It had horns and was a dark color with pointy teeth and weird eyes. Nothing spooky about it in my opinion. It looked kind of funny being worn while chasing the damsel in distress. The kills were unoriginal. Same kills you would see in practically any slasher film. Makeup was basic and not believable. Acting was over the top, characters were "characters" not people. Even the opening credits looked like something out of a high school project.

I hate to bash a horror movie, because horror movies are one of my loves in life. Nightmare Man was just too simple and unoriginal. They could take that same exact story and do so much better with it. They could make the mask more interesting. They could work on more natural acting style. They could practice the makeup techniques more. They could figure out more interesting kills. There is a ton of potential, but they just didn't live up to it.