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 Like "Twilight Zone" and "Creepshow", "Nightmares" is a collection of several short horror stories. When I saw this about 15 years ago, my favorite segment was the second one with Emilio Estevez getting addicted to a video game called "The Bishop of Battle" which vaguely resembled the real-life arcade game "Berzerk." I was a video game addict back in those days too; so I could relate to the segment very well. Since my interest in video games has waned somewhat over the years, the short story I now like best in this movie is the third one with Lance Henriksen as the disillusioned preist who encounters a satanic truck out in the desert. It reminds me a little of "Christine," which also has a demonic automobile. Interestingly enough, both movies have debuted in 1983. There are two other short stories, one involving a smoker being attacked by a serial killer and another with a giant rat terrorizing a household. While the smoker-meets-serial-killer story is rather forgettable, the giant rat story manages to be nominally scary without getting too campy (by the way, if you want to laugh your ass off watching a campy giant rat movie, then check out Bert I. Gordon's "Food of the Gods.") Although "Nightmares" suffers from mediocre, typical TV-movie quality cinematography and acting, it is still a decent, diverse collection of short horror stories. |
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