Red-Barracuda
The Nightmare Never Ends is another horror film which riffed off the success of the major blockbuster The Omen (1976). Rather than have an evil child, in this one Satan is an ageless, rather smug looking young man who has taken on various guises throughout the ages in which he has exerted his evil onto mankind. In a recent period of his life he was a sadistic Nazi camp commandant. An elderly man who escaped his clutches during the war recognises him and alerts the police who then tie this character in with a series of unexplained murders.The first time I encountered this one was when I saw the rather ropey anthology horror film Night Train to Terror (1985). That movie had three segments which contained material from unreleased or barely released past movies. The Nightmare Never Ends constituted the latter category as it does seem to have been distributed as it was definitely available in the UK on home video under the title Cataclysm in the early 80's. It has a couple of old hands starring as a pair of grizzled detectives, namely Cameron Mitchell and Marc Lawrence. By this point in their careers these guys were well and truly b-movie regulars, with Mitchell in particular a familiar face to anyone at all well versed in low budget genre films from this period. The film itself is certainly no classic but it succeeded in entertaining me anyway. Its combination of Satanism, Nazis and b-movie cheese was a combination which essentially delivered enough fun, for me at any rate.
Rainey Dawn
"Cataclysm" aka "The Nightmare Never Ends" aka "Satan's Supper" -- whatever you know this film by it's borderline compete garbage - very close to it but not quite. Yea this film is terrible - but something so cheesy about it that I can giggle at the sheer awfulness of it so it's not 100% garbage it's just not good.An atheist has a book "God is Dead", a police detective is researching a Nazi concentration camp death, a doctor that keeps saying "I cannot kill", a follower of Satan, monks, Ishtar and more... if this sounds interesting to you then check this film out it's got it all.This film is so mixed up, choppy and bizarre one would have to see it to understand just how bad it is.4/10
Zbigniew_Krycsiwiki
Another title I was first introduced to as part of Night Train To Terror, this film, on its own, doesn't stand up as well as far as unintended humour, or just being a good movie. Released under a variety of different titles: Cataclysm, Satan's Supper, and The Nightmare Never Ends, none of which have anything to do with the film itself. This review based on the 88-minutes long version titled The Nightmare Never Ends. In the first scene, Claire Hanson, wakes up startled after dreaming of volcanic lava, then decides to go for a scenic drive with hubby, James Hansen (Richard Moll). Moll's character is a sort of hybrid of Anton LeVay and Freidrich Nietzsche, who is promoting a book titled 'God is Dead', with ridiculous dyed grey sideburns, his voice occasionally badly dubbed, and wearing an ill-fitted suit (although, being 6'8" tall, one supposes it is difficult to find suits which really fit well) Whilst under hypnosis, Claire Hanson recalls Nazi parties from the 1930s. An old man believes that a young man is the same Nazi who killed his family 35 years earlier, in 1944. The old man isn't believed by the police and goes after him himself, and is then killed by some fanged demon who blows a hole in his chest. Investigation of his murder leads nowhere, but the end of the set is clearly visible in this scene, as are the camera's own dolly tracks. The body is autopsied by Claire Hanson, who continues having nightmares and see demons, and it is revealed that the young man is Satan, who has remained eternally young and killed people for centuries. Here, the devil looks like the guy from KC And The Sunshine Band, with feathered hair and painted-on eyebrows that take up half of his forehead. His goal is not made clear in this confusing and dramatically awkward film, awkward in that Moll's lead character is killed off 25 minutes before the end of the movie. Also odd is that some of the best effects seemed to have been edited out and included in the anthology Night Train To Terror. Occasionally interesting set designs and lighting, but that can't compensate for such a weird story, with such an awful ending.
mikelcat
This ''film'' is seemingly a collection of unrelated scenes strung together by three different directors who must have hated each other and the business of film-making . Faith Clift the lead actress looks and acts like a dead zombie who's been lobotomized and then drugged , Charles (Richard) Moll , with the ever changing wigs looks and sounds lost , Marc Lawerence in a dual role is horrible in both ''roles'' and finally Robert Bristol the prissy Satan rep on earth is about as scary as whipped cream . The nightmare however does end , but only after you've suffered a wasted 70 or so mins of this mess .Fans of bad films will enjoy this , it could also be used as an example of how not to make a film .