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Director:
Writer:
Romano Scavolini (writer)
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Release Date:
9 June 1982 (France) more
Genre:
Tagline:
The Dream You Can't Escape ALIVE! more
Plot:
A mental-patient, who is troubled with horrible nightmares, has escaped from his hospital. Now on the streets he can't help killing innocent people... more | full synopsis
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Trashy slasher rubbish with some nice gore more (50 total)

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Baird Stafford ... George Tatum
Sharon Smith ... Susan Temper
C.J. Cooke ... C.J. Temper
Mik Cribben ... Bob Rosen
Danny Ronan ... Kathy the Babysitter
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Tara Alexander ... Woman in Booth
Randy Arieux ... Police Officer

Ray Baker ... Real Estate Agent
Tommy Bouvier ... Joey
Craig Cain ... Police Officer
Carl Clifford ... Hospital Attendant
Mark Davis ... Police Officer
Kathleen Ferguson ... Barbara
Christina Keefe ... George's Mother
William Kirksey ... George's father
George Kruger ... Chief Cotter
Candy Marchese ... Jogger / Candy
Geoffrey Marchese ... Tony Walker
David Massar ... Hospital Attendant
Bill Milling ... Paul Williamson

Kevin J. O'Neill
Mary Lee Parise ... Police Officer
Kim Patterson ... Kim Temper
Tammy Patterson ... Tammy Temper
William Paul ... Steve
Scott Praetorius ... Young George
Miranda Stevens ... Show World Dancer (as Danielle Galiana)
Michael Sweney ... Burt Daniels
Robert Tenvooren ... Police Officer
Ken Thomas ... Police Officer
John L. Watkins ... Man with Cigar
Susan Webb ... Police Officer
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Blood Splash
Nightmare in a Damaged Brain
Nightmares in a Damaged Brain (UK) (video title)
Schizo (Australia) (video title)
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Runtime:
97 min | UK:96 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Banned as a Video Nasty in the UK during the 1980s. more
Goofs:
Factual errors: During the throat slashing scene near the beginning, blood does not gush out rapidly and nonstop as it should. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Empire of the Censors (1995) (TV) more

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12 out of 20 people found the following review useful.
Trashy slasher rubbish with some nice gore, 10 May 2006
4/10
Author: The_Void from Beverley Hills, England

Despite the lurid title, "Nightmare in a Damaged Brain", this infamous Video Nasty is a rather unappealing experience. The film is poorly produced and largely unoriginal, thus meaning that the only reason left to bother watching it is that it was a part of the DPP horror fan's shopping list back in the eighties. Unlike a lot of films on the list, however, this one is actually quite gory; and while the plot often finds itself lost in tedium, at least Nightmares in a Damaged Brain has several gory sequences to fall back on. The plot comes together from a range of different sources; most notably the barrage of serial killer flicks released before this one, but the 'days' approach that was used to great effect in Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" and the classic story of 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf' feature also. The plot follows a man on an experiment drugs program that is released from an asylum. He visits a few strip shows, and it's not long before he gets back to his murderous ways, and when his attentions become fixated on a certain family, they all find themselves in danger...

Probably the first noticeable thing about this Video Nasty is the appalling state of the acting. There's a scene in which a young boy pretends to have been stabbed, and the reactions of the cast look so fake that it actually is painful. You can't expect good acting from a film like this, but here it's even worse than normal. The way that the plot comes together isn't very good either, as first we follow the mental patient and then the film skips over to the family he's going to stalk without any explanation of exactly what's going on; this makes the film difficult as we're left wondering why we've moved over to different characters. The gore scenes are too few and far between to please most fans of this sort of stuff, but when they do feature; they're certainly bloody enough. The ending, which depicts a murder scene that has been hinted at in flashbacks throughout the film, is massively over the top, but the blood flows freely and even though the effects are clearly fake, it's still a nice gory scene. On the whole, I won't recommend this movie as its rubbish, but fans of gory, poorly made slashers are likely to find something to like.

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