Hey folks, Harry here - this is the only word I've heard on this one, wonder if there's a different take on it from anyone else. Here ya go...

NIGHTMARE

What starts out as the friendliest of nocturnal emissions, takes a gruesome turn and truly lives up to it’s name as this movie is indeed a nightmare. It follows a nameless film student who, after waking up from a freak nasty one-night stand, finds a video camera at the end of his bed. He and his companion watch the tape and discover footage from the previous night which shows them brutally torturing/stabbing a group of people. Talk about a gangbang! (drum, drum, cymbal). No? From there, nameless protagonist scurries off to film class to pitch ideas for the group’s next production. When his first pitch fails miserably, he is urged to “write what you know.” He pitches the morning’s happenings and the class eats it up. As time goes on, nameless gets more tapes of different murders involving him and his bang-buddy. The couple tries to unravel the mystery at the same time they are re-staging and shooting it for his film.

It has the set-up of an interesting psychological horror movie but never quite lives up to the programmer’s notes. It starts out with charisma. The characters are intriguing and familiar. The majority of them are film students and it’s refreshing to see them get ripped on. The film is clever and funny, but lacks any actual horror. The closest we get to it are a bunch of naked people covered in unconvincing blood. The story evolves into a film about making a film and struggling with reliving the events that are getting portrayed. While it sounds like a head trip…it’s not. It drones on and on without really answering any of the audiences’ questions. The film repeatedly feels like it’s at an ending point, ready to reveal the twist, but it never does. When it actually does end and we learn the methods, it’s too late and I didn’t care anymore. It got to the point that “guff” noises could be heard throughout the audience as scenes kept materializing.

I suppose it’s a good movie if you like watching a bunch of naked people struggling to stab each other (reminded me of the good naked, bad naked Seinfeld episode). I swear that the main character is naked more than clothed in the film and, there are moments that I feel like he just wanted to take his shirt off to unveil his well-groomed chest hair. If this sounds like a quality devotion of two hours, be my guest, but I wouldn’t re-weather this tempest of terrible if you promised me a H.J. and a new pair of sneakers.

-Kijo