When Friday the 13th scored a major triumph at the box office during the summer of 1980, it didn’t take long for every producer in town, from the studios down to the independents, to jump on what became the slasher bandwagon. Wannabe directors soon realized that with a meager budget and a cast of [...]
Published on: 9th October, 2009
Romano Scavolini’s 1981 shocker Nightmare is notorious for many things; from the never-ending debate as to who really created the special effects to its inclusion on the ‘Video Nasty’ list in the UK during the 1980s. Sleazy, amateur and sadistic, Nightmare (renamed by its British distributors as Nightmare in a Damaged Brain) was the [...]