FilmRSupernatural Sci-Fi Horror Monster & Creature

Nightmares1983

Name: Nightmares
Genre: Supernatural, Sci-Fi Horror, Monster & Creature, Psychological
Released: 1983-09-02
Rating: 5.4

“Nightmares... is this year's sleeper.”

Directed by Joseph Sargent

5.4

Crypt Score

Blended from 4 sources

IMDb 5.7Rotten Tomatoes 29%Metacritic 39TMDB 5.7

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Year

1983

Runtime

99 min

Box Office

Revenue (worldwide)

$6,670,680

Domestic

$6,670,680

🏆 1 win & 1 nomination

The premise

A collection of short stories. In one a woman who leaves her house late at night to drive to the store while a killer is loose encounters some problems. In the second an arcade whiz kid's obsession with a game leads to deadly consequences. In the third a small town priest loses his faith and decides to leave town, but in the desert is stalked by a mysterious black pick-up truck. In the final story, a family's problem with a rat is larger than they think.

Horror Vault's take

A four-part anthology spanning radically different flavors of dread — from the vulnerability of a late-night errand during a killer's spree, to the hypnotic grip of arcade addiction taken to a terrifying extreme. A crisis of faith sends a small-town priest into the desert, where something sinister on the open road refuses to let him pass in peace. Finally, a domestic pest problem escalates far beyond anything a family could have bargained for. Each segment delivers its own brand of horror, united by the era's fondness for campfire-tale tension and genre variety.

Content: Animal Threat Imagery, Violence, Jump Scares