Nightmares in a Damaged Brain 1981
director: Romano Scavolini
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Alternative Titles
- Nightmare
- Blood Splash
Cast
Baird Stafford Sharon Smith C.J. Cooke Mik Cribben Danny Ronan John Watkins William Milling Scott Praetorius William S. Kirksey Christina Keefe Tammy Patterson Kim Patterson Kathleen Ferguson William Paul Tommy Bouvier Candy Marchese Geoffrey Marchese Michael Sweney George Kruger Ray Baker Lonnie Griffis Tara Alexander Danielle Galliana Carl Clifford David Massar Mary Lee Parise Randy Arieux Craig Cain Mark Davis Ken Thomas Robert Tenvooren Susan Webb Frank Rothery Scott Trotter
Synopsis
Has been hailed as the American Cult Terror film of 1982, starring BAIRD STAFFORD and introducing C. J. COOKE. It begins with a very bloody nightmare that triggers George Tatums' journey into madness and an axe-swinging insanity that doesn't stop for 90 minutes. Definitely not for persons of a nervous disposition
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| Distributor | L.U. Productions (World of Video 2000) |
| Catalogue Number | XF140 |
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| Release Date | May 1982 |
| Duration: | 85m 51s |
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| Notes | Read more about this video, which is featured in the book The Art of the Nasty |
User Reviews:
Here's one of the true bad boys of the video nasty scare, a cause celebre by virtue of the startling fact that its British distributor (David Hamilton-Grant, no stranger to controversy, having tried - and failed - to secure a UK cinema release for Last House on the Left as early as 1974) actually went to prison for releasing the uncut version. Fair enough, the accompanying advertising campaign - which invited punters to guess the weight of a damaged brain and win themselves fifty quid - didn't help either, but the fact remains Hamilton-Grant was the last person in Britain to be jailed for publishing obscene material. So, is Nightmares in a Damaged Brain really obscene? Of course not. It's a maddeningly diverse pick-and-mix of divergent styles and influences - everything from Hallowe'en and the Shining to any one of a vast number of Times Square-set grindhouse flicks gets a look in here - tied to a defiantly grubby, tasteless, trashy and misogynistic story of a traumatised youngster, released back into an uncaring society after years of supposedly successful therapy, to go back to his old murderous ways - all set to music that sounds like a wedding band running ragged and unrehearsed through the Pink Floyd songbook. Baird Stafford is effective as the wandering maniac - though the 'frothing at the mouth' scenes are more likely to evoke laughs than chills - but really, the whole thing stands and falls on its gloriously gory finalé, a delirious, once-seen-never-forgotten blood-soaked double murder partially supervised by effects ace Tom Savini. If it's sleazy, greasy, cheesy eighties gore you're looking for, this one delivers the gross-eries.