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5.5/10   1,091 votes
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Director:
Writer:
John McTiernan (writer)
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Release Date:
17 January 1986 (USA) more
Tagline:
A Chilling Tale Of Supernatural Evil. more
Plot:
A French anthropologist moves to Los Angeles and is followed by the evil spirits of an extinct tribe he once uncovered. full summary | full synopsis
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Cast

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Pierce Brosnan ... Jean Charles Pommier

Lesley-Anne Down ... Flax
Anna Maria Monticelli ... Niki (as Anna-Maria Monticelli)
Adam Ant ... Number One
Mary Woronov ... Dancing Mary
Héctor Mercado ... Ponytail
Josie Cotton ... Silver Ring
Frank Doubleday ... Razor
Jeannie Elias ... Cassie

Nina Foch ... Real Estate Agent
J. Jay Saunders ... Cort (as J.J. Saunders)
Alan Autry ... Olds
Dana Chelette ... Orderly
Frances Bay ... Bertril
Junero Jennings ... Gas Station Attendant
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Runtime:
91 min
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Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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The voice of the professor from Boston over the phone is the director, John McTiernan. more
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11 out of 16 people found the following review useful.
An astonishing piece of work, 14 November 2003
10/10
Author: thogatthog from Hewitt, NJ

One of those rare fantasy movies that has the courage to be conceptually uncompromising with its audience, this plays with several layers of reality so that often one is uncertain if the particular scene currently on-screen can be taken at face value or not ... yet by the movie's end all makes perfectly coherent sense according to the movie's own internal logic.

Brosnan and Down are not the actors you'd expect to find playing this sort of material, but Down turns in a perfectly creditable performance -- as does Brosnan whenever (which is, fortunately, most of the time) he doesn't have to speak: his French accent is lamentable. Prime acting honours, though, must go to Anna Maria Monticelli; her portrayal of a French academic's French wife in an unknown city is pitch-perfect.

If you enjoy the best of written contemporary fantasy and are dissatisfied by how rarely screened fantasy matches it, usually as a result of Hollywood defaults, then you'll whoop with joy on discovering Nomads.

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