Nightmares is a horror anthology film directed by Joseph Sargent. The film is made up of four short films based on urban legends, telling about a woman who encounters a killer in the backseat of her car, a video game-addicted teenager, a fallen priest and a suburban family.
20 July 1937, Detroit, Michigan, USA
10 April 1969, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
22 July 1942, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA
20 November 1948, New York City, New York, USA
13 October 1920, Berlin, Germany
19 April 1952, Havana, Cuba
25 September 1957, Buffalo, New York, USA
22 September 1936, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
13 October 1937, Milan, Indiana, USA
16 October 1962, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
28 February 1952, Manila, Philippines
5 May 1940, New York City, New York, USA
24 January 1953, Maywood, California, USA
20 July 1935, Chicago, Illinois, USA
11 July 1975, Inglewood, California, USA
October 29, 2012
In this quartet of scary tales, two stories work and two don't.
January 04, 2005
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January 26, 2006
In general, though, the scripting is unimaginative, derivative, and desperately predictable.
May 24, 2003
Plenty of short-story-type twists ensure that the ensuing drama plays second fiddle to cheap, unsatisfying pay-offs.
August 30, 2004
Nothing spoils a horror story faster than a stupid victim. And Nightmares, an anthology of four supposedly scary episodes, has plenty of those.
