gravegauze From where I viewed the movie, the quality was pretty crappy. Even if the picture was remastered, some parts would probably still look like a home video.Me being the gore freak I am, the movie seemed to just kind of stretch out and not have a lot of gore. There were times where the actual killer wouldn't go for it, or would take forever to do it, and then sometimes where you thought it was the killer but it was actually the lady's son pulling some pranks. So that was disappointing. UNTIL I GOT TO THE END. THE ENDING IS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. Some gruesome flashes that appear early on in the movie play out into a full scene and it completely saved the whole movie. I absolutely loved it. It was very realistic and impressive for its time, just absolutely satisfying. This scene alone is worth the watch, if you are a fan of the slasher genre.

markcope1981 I heard about this movie and watched it George tatum has a wife named susan and 3 kids who are annoying George hacked up his parents as a kid goes crazy gets committed breaks out and terrorizes a babysitter looking after his kids and kills people the director did lift many elements out of Halloween and maniac but this film is good over all and has inspired other films I liked a lot pretty good great blood splash sounds like a better title kim tammy cj and their babysitter Kathy are given hell by George in a effective film susan is good and its scary and gory the only way it could have been better is if Kathy spoiler alert lived

hektik80 I've heard a lot about this movie that made me want to see it & when I finally got to watch it I never felt a greater sense of disappointment. I believe all the reviews are overrated this movie isn't that gory or creepy, the story is very slow, and I lost interest very early in the movie but waited for it to pick up & was very upset when it didn't. I don't recommend this to any die hard horror fan. This is more for the easily scared & grossed out or the easily amused seeing how the plot wasn't too interesting. The highlights of the movie are the little bit of gore & nudity it has but even that is not enough to bother going out of your way to track this movie down.

WaxBellaAmours Trying to bring the Italian giallo genre into the then-popular American slasher genre, Nightmare is a half-clever attempt. Those two extremes don't seem like a good fit, with the typical slash-and-hack, one-by-one structure of the slasher genre mixing a bit awkwardly with the more flamboyant, open-ended and director-focused giallo film movement. "Nightmare" isn't particularly coherent and can feel a bit half-hearted at times, but it has enough startling moments and a truly twisted (and brutal) view of sexuality to at least be interesting beyond it's initial viewing.Often considered a Grindhouse staple, it shares the qualities of many other films of that "genre": lousy dubbing, horrid acting, completely conspicious continuity blunders, a soundtrack and film print that makes the viewer feel like their head is being held under muddy water. It's also unusually bleak and morally ambiguous for an American film, a telling sign that this was directed by an European. There's also a sense of the American-slasher puritanism, as noticed by the Killer's view of promiscious adults around him, but it's not quite as black-and-white as many of the like-minded films at the time. Largely because we're asked to look at the film's largely unseen killer with a more subjective eye."Nightmare" may be poorly made, although a few cat-and-mouse sequences are well-staged and engaging enough, but it's far from useless. It's cross between American DIY ethos and lavish, fetishitistic European flavoring is uneven and sloppy but always weird and alluring enough to keep you watching. The film's modest cult following is understandable.