Nightmare

Italy, 1981, directed by Romano Scavolini

35mm, 97 minutes, screening Saturday, Oct 30th at 9:00 pm

Romano Scavolini’s NIGHTMARE has been banned the world over and was deemed a ‘Video Nasty’ back in the good old days. A bit too brutal for certain audiences, but a very good show by my standards. Baird Stafford is George, a typical socially inept schizophrenic with constant nightmares. The nightmares are obviously repressed memories, which give a little indication to what made Georgie go crazy. When he was a wee tot, he had the pleasure of witnessing his parents making the beast with two backs in a Sadomasochistic manner. The ax he had to grind had to be grinded into his parent’s faces. So they shipped him off to a mental hospital where they popped him full of pills and ran a few experiments on him. Of course, after years of this, they feel he has been rehabilitated and release him into a halfway house. Cut to happy family. Mom is heading out on a date with her boyfriend and leaving the three kids to be looked after by the babysitter. We know what comes next, don’t we.

Nightmare

October 26 - 31

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