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Nightmares/4 Stories
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786300183131
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6300183130
Label: Universal Home Video
Languages: English (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: Universal Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Home Video
Release Date: January 01, 2002
Studio: Universal Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: September 09, 1983
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Editorial Review:
Fans of the Tales from the Crypt series and The Twilight Zone should appreciate this early-Eighties anthology of horror tales. "Terror in Topanga" is the tale of a woman terrorized by a maniac when she just has to make a trip to the store for some cigarettes. "The Bishop of Battle" is notable for a very young Emilio Estevez as a teen whose obsession with video games gets the better of him. There's a definite nostalgia factor as he hustles other kids for money on the Paleozoic-era arcade games (listening to punk rock like Black Flag and Fear on an early-model Walkman the whole time). Perhaps the strongest segment involves B-movie stalwart Lance Henriksen as a priest who gives up the clergy and leaves his parish. While traveling across the desert, the hapless padre is pursued by a mysterious black Chevrolet pickup that systematically demolishes his car (shades of Spielberg's Duel). "Night of the Rat," rounding out the quartet, is just that; the story of a family who has a problem with a really big rat. While this little collection of tales tends to telegraph its punchlines well in advance, it still offers up a satisfying chill or two by way of its pacing and suspense, and with a bit more gore than the usual made-for-cable fare. --Jerry Renshaw
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - NIGHTMARES IS A UNTIQUE HORROR FLICK!!!!!!!!
Nightmares is a great horror story flick and each story is different and untique and has a great cast to go along with it!!!! If you a fan of Tales from the Crypt and Tales from the Darkside and Twilight Zone then you should check this movie out!!!!!! You have a maniac after this woman which is on her way to get some smokes and then you have a kid that loves video games and the game takes over his life and last,but not least a giant sized rat that is terrorizes this family!!!!! I love my 80's horror ... Read More
Rating:  - May your nightmares take you...
This presentation contains 4 chapters of shadowmantic horror. Immediately, we course through a darkened landscape cracking with magma, as if Hell is bursting up from beneath. We are met with two glowing red eyes staring deep into the soul. A splendid introduction.
Chapter One: Maniac.
A small suburban town is terrorized by a maniac lurking in the woods, preying upon unsuspecting girls. He has already struck twice, yet besides this nefarious news, a young woman ventures forth ... Read More
Rating: - Rat as big as Shaq
Finally I found the title of this flick!! I was like, 6 or something when I first watched this, and forgot the name for 20 years until tonight!!!! The movies that stand out is the video game one, the one where the Estevez dude turns to a monochrome dude trapped in the game, and then of course the last one, with the rat, as big as Shaq!!!! Now that is scary!!!!! This is a dandy 80's flick!!!
Rating: - don't lose your faith
Nightmares has 4 vignettes:
1.) a nasty video game that consumes JJ (Emilio Estevez)
2.) a psychopathic killer that almost gets smoker(Christina Raines)
3.) A Satanic black Chevy truck trying to kill a faithless priest
(Lance Henrickson)
and 4.) a dumb story of Giant Rodent ... at a dopey husband
( I forget his name)
an enjoyable movie nontheless
Rating: - decent horror movie...awesome soundtrack
This is a decent anthology film from the early 80's with a great soundtrack. The first story is only decent , not great , but not bad either although the scene where the gas station attendent busted through the chick's window scared me the first time I saw it. The second story is the best one , with Emilio Estevez as a arcade junkie who gets more than he bargains for when he reaches the 13 level. The third story is the worst and a waste of time even though Lance Henrikson is an awesome actor. The fourth ... Read More
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