Nightmares(1980) Movie Review

Trailer here.

Nightmares is a 1980 Australian horror film directed by John D.Lamond and starring Jenny Neumann, Gary Sweet and Max Phipps.

The year is 1963 and a young girl is in a car with her mother and a man. They kiss and she hates it so much that she causes the car to crash and it kills her mother. She goes crazy. Cut to the present day and the girl has grown up and is called Helen(Neumann). She is an actress and she is going to an audition. She meets a man called Terry(Sweet). A couple are having sex outside and someone is there. The couple are killed. Terry and Helen get close. Helen begins to act strangely. The killer is still on the loose. Who could it be? Helen is working on a play and the actors are starting to die, one by one.

Helen begins to have dreams about the murders. She tells Terry that she is scared. A critic tries to come on to Helen and she gets mad. He writes an awful review of the play. He is the next to meet his demise at the hands of the killer. Helen has more dreams about the murders. She goes to see Terry about it. The next day, she doesn't turn up at the theatre and Terry goes to search for her. Her apartment is wrecked. What is going on? Bodies start to mount up around the theatre. It is beginning to look as if someone who is part of the play is the killer. Helen is the killer and she goes to see Terry. She ends up stabbing him and makes it look as if he was the killer when it was her. The police believe her and she is free to go for another audtion....

This is a by the numbers slasher film with an obvious killer. It isn't too bad, though. You can just sit back and enjoy it. I do like Australian films so I was happy to see this. I think that it is worth a watch for fans of 80's slasher movies.I will give it a 5/10.