Nightmares Come at Night

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Audience Member One of Franco's more pathetic attempts at filmmaking. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member An exotic dancer in a psychologically abusive lesbian relationship thinks she's going crazy when she has vivid nightmares in which she thinks she kills people. Typical Jess Franco Eurosleaze with careless plotting, failed attempts at arty camera shots, and naked women onscreen at almost all times. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member Ah Jess Franco, we meet again and the feeling is still so familiar. Without much research & with careful certainty, I believe that Jess Franco may be a competent, surrealistic, metaphorical, psychologically driven and deliberate director/writer. However, despite the presence of a creepy/disorienting atmosphere and something somewhat intangible to me about his movies which leads me to have faith in his competence and meaning . . . i still find myself underwhelmed by most of his efforts. Lets look at what I interpret from NIGHTMARES COME AT NIGHT. I believe we have a story of identity confusion and crisis to the point of serious neurotic tendencies leading to the lead woman putting herself in serious physical and further psychological danger. Her poor self-esteem, poor self-efficacy, sexual confusion and other issues of the sort lead to a truly sad and disorienting story in which reality and fantasy become almost indiscernible as she becomes manipulated and disturbed by a sociopathic woman who we find out can sense weakness in others and exploits that. An interesting twist at the ending adds to the surface story we have playing out and Franco (as he seems to love to do) uses strong sexual imagery and potential symbolism to tell part (a large part! haha) of the story. Now regardless of whether the credit I wish to believe Franco deserves truly exists and regardless of whether my quick interpretation is accurate or conscientiously embedded into the film . . . this movie still falls short of making me a Franco fan. I.E: I don't really know that I care to see it again. If any of the above subject matter or symbolism strikes a chord with you, then you may be able to look past poor dubbing (I really should give it a chance in its native language with subtitles) and you may have the patience to look for the symbolism and see more than a softcore/rated R porn with some above average atmosphere. I believe Franco has purpose . . . I just don't think I like his presentation. For an introduction to Franco, I'd recommend: the even more atmospheric VIRGIN AMONG THE LIVING DEAD. But if psychosexual, possible metaphorical and nicely atmospheric tickles your interest, then by all means give this one a try! Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member Terribly boring and uninspired. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member It has a certain style as do all of Jess Franco's movies of the 1970s. Diana Lorys is really beautiful, but the movie relies too heavily on her being nude through the whole thing. I know it's an exploitation movie, but the scenes went on and on and in the end, the movie was pretty boring. Some of Jess Franco's films are like that and some can be really good. This one, not so much. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Nightmare Come At Night is one of those experimental Franco films from the early 70's. And for me thats my favorite period for Jess Franco films. The first half of Nightmares was a bit of a bore. And i cant put my finger on it as to when it happened because the film really never evolved from were it started as far as tone is concerned, but the last act of the film was totally brilliant. I think was i really disliked was the American dub track. It is by far the worst dubbing track ive ever heard in my life. Its almost as if they used actors from the Drama dept at Whidney High. But i switched it to the French track and clicked on the subs and was fine after that. Like all early 70's Franco this film has the obligatory performance art peice in a smokey lounge. Iam a total sucker for these moments in his films. The story here is pretty much hard to follow but that doesnt matter. What matters is the hypnotic dreamlike feel the film evokes. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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