ThiefHott Too much of everything

Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

Hayleigh Joseph This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

Phillipa Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

pianomangidley It seems that After Dark decided to distribute a film that was in that "so bad it's funny" category, worthy of MST3K-style commentary throughout. In fact, that's really the only way I'd recommend watching this film, because anything else will lead to utter disappointment. This movie starts off featuring Ellen, a woman who receives an African mask of a fertility deity she ordered to help her and her husband with their sex life, only it looks nothing like what she expected—a all-too- classic devil/demon looking face, which she insists leads to an actual demon taking over her body and mind (and haunting her dreams). Her husband, Bill (an Antonio Banderas knock-off), is driving her to have her committed to a mental hospital, when the car runs out of gas in a remote location. He goes off to get more gas, leaving her alone to see that this demon is in the woods where the car stalled and is actually after her. It pursues her to a house where four young adults are having a small party, and people start dying.There's so much I wasn't expecting from this film (due to the level of professional cinema making I've come to expect from the movies distributed by After Dark) that I was already disappointed three minutes in. The camera quality is no better than a mid-grade porno and the acting and scriptwriting are no better. There's pretty much no exposition whatsoever—no character building to see Ellen's decline from a simple married woman to a possessed psychotic/schizophrenic, so don't expect to feel any sort of connection or sympathy for her...or any other character, for that matter. The editing, the blood-and-gore effects, the music—it's all pretty cheap. Even the demon mask itself looks like a cheap plastic mask you could find in any Halloween or general costume shop with a "Made in Taiwan" sticker on the back.Even the "twist" an hour in is something I saw coming...but, ittedly, the second twist a short while later was sort of a saving grace for the film (if you can even think of it that way). In fact, the last 15-or-so minutes had me reminiscing a little of "Evil Dead." Perhaps that's the sort of cheesy, hokey mood of horror film making these people were out to accomplish. It's just about as cheap, if you factor in the difference of years between the two films. So, if you're really in the mood to watch something that's so bad that's it becomes all too easy to make fun of it during the entire ride, you could give "Nightmare Man" a try. There might be better films to suit that style of MST3K "horror," but I don't normally go in for such flicks myself, to be honest. Of course, if you're looking for an actually well-made scary movie to truly unsettle and disturb you, avoid this like the plague.

slayrrr666 "Nightmare Man" is an enjoyable, if slightly flawed entry.**SPOILERS**After receiving a new fertility mask, Ellen Morris, (Blythe Metz) suddenly starts having strange nightmares and visions, which her husband William, (Luciano Szafir) immediately writes off. When it starts getting worse, she begins to feel like she's being stalking by a figure known as The Nightmare Man, who is represented by their mask. Finally deciding to get away from the mask and go on a trip out in the woods, they are attacked by the creature and forcing them to take refuge with Mia, (Tiffany Shepis) and her friends Jack, (James Ferris) Ed, (Jack Sway) and Trinity, (Hanna Putnam) who are in a small cabin nearby. Realizing that her stories are true, they band together with whatever they can and hold off the deadly creature without being taken out one-by-one.The Good News: There was a lot of good stuff here in this one. Easily its best feature is that the film manages to throw one of the greatest second halves together with so much good stuff as to be nearly impossible to count against it. From the moment of the car attack, this just gets better and better and has an absolutely fun time that is quite obvious to watch. That car attack itself is one of the best features of the film, as it's an old-school style scene that's protracted and extended, but feels natural about it and not simply because of unnecessary reasons, and the different tactics to keep it going make it energetic and exciting, and then it segues into an equally-outstanding chase through the forest which is just eerie, creepy and good enough to really keep the film going rather nicely with a spectacular setting, a really healthy amount of action and some better-than-expected moments which are responsible for getting this one across as a fun scene. What makes this the best is that, while there's a life-or-death struggle in the woods between a knife-wielding, devil-masked man of her nightmares with the hyperventilating victim screaming for her life, it's being crosscut with scenes of one of the characters performing a striptease while another fakes an orgasm to further annoy her prudish boyfriend. The scenes there, both before and after that, are just as fun and slightly sleazy as that one, most of which comes from the highly-unsubtle flirting going on following the lesbian revelation. Sprinkled with highly-enjoyable nudity, coming just shy of revealing everything, from most of the main female cast which is greatly appreciated, these scenes work incredibly well and have a lot going for them. It then gets chilling and quite tense once it gets the creature there, which is where most of this one works. From the incredible stalking around the cabin to the antics of surviving the matter and the constant attempts at getting to them, this is an incredibly well-done series of scenes that, combined with the earlier stuff, makes for some outstanding moments that make this so fun. By making the killer look rather great, with the use of the tribal mask which is rather creepy-looking on it's own, giving into a fantastic-looking killer that works well. That there's a couple of rather nice kills doesn't really hurt either, as there's a really great arrow-bow through the neck, a knife through the head, some stabbing and impaling, and one is run over by a car that splatters across the windshield, which is about all it can afford due to the body count but it still good enough to really work. The last plus to this is the film's nice attention to it's killer, which has a great history and really feels more complete than most other slashers' back-stories and makes him a more complete villain. All of these here make this a great entry.The Bad News: There are a couple problems with this one that hold it down. One of them is the premise doesn't have nearly enough set-up before the husband is ready to get to the insane asylum. The movie opens with her receiving the mask before getting the effects of that, and within a matter of six minutes in, the film is ready to have her dropped of at the asylum. It really could have used more set-up, and the basic premise behind what ultimately happens remains rather underdeveloped throughout the film and needs a bit more fleshing out. The biggest problem, though, is the horrible camera work and nonexistent lighting. There are entire moments of outdoor scenes where all that's visible was one dark blob interacting with another dark blob. This is especially true during the last half, which takes place at night for the most part, and it gets really hard to see most of what's happening when out in the woods. The scenes inside the cabin are somewhat better, but even still aren't that greatly-lit and seem to be quite hard to fully see through. Otherwise, this one wasn't bad at all.The Final Verdict: A lot of good points mixed in with some minor flaws really helps this one out, making it a highly enjoyable and entertaining film. Definitely recommended to slasher fans, those who have liked the others in the series or are fans of the creative crew, while those who aren't should heed caution.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Nudity and Graphic Language

deadsupremist88 man... i've used IMDb for about 4 or 5 years now and i just ed so i could warn the world about this movie. apparently your not allowed to use profanities on this? just make a list of 24 obscenities in your head and place them anywhere in here. first FILMTHREAT.com and BLooDY-DISGUSTING.com gave this film positive reviews which within 30 seconds of this movie i began to suspect that someone involved in this production gave someone at either of these sites a much needed organ in trade for a thesaurus worth of golden adjectives. how i longed to be locked into any or all of the devices in the saw movies than to have sat through this tremendous pile of heaping excrement. i would rather two girls one cup myself than wear the same contraption Alex in a clock work orange wore hold my eyes open so that i might suffer through this pile of used toilet paper again. i'd rather take a picture of my face, tape it to my testicles, and stick needles in it. i'd rather cut myself every quarter of an inch, catch infection, and have fly eggs embedded in me. i'd rather lick the sweet sour sweat clean off of every member of any given retirement home.

Backlash007 ~Spoiler~Rolfe Kanefsky makes bad horror movies, but at least they are usually fun. Nightmare Man is a bit painful to watch. It's about a couple who receive a foreign fertility mask that the wife thinks is haunted by the titular Nightmare Man. She becomes increasingly paranoid that the creature is going to kill her and the husband eventually has no other choice but to commit her. But...on the way to the asylum they run out of gas in the middle of nowhere. While the husband heads out on foot for the gas station, the wife is attacked by the Nightmare Man. She has many narrow escapes before reaching a secluded home where we meet more cannon fodder characters for the slasher to maim and kill. Anyone whose ever seen a movie knows whose responsible for the killings almost immediately. It's in-your-face apparent so I'm going to tell you: it's the husband. Actually, the husband has hired someone to pose as the Nightmare Man to kill his annoying wife. However, much later in a laugh-out-loud moment, it turns out there really is a supernatural evil present. The movie starts to pick up here, but it's just too late and too silly. I should go ahead and it I never would have watched this film if it weren't for Tiffany Shepis. I watch a lot of crap just to see her in action. But she's worth it. Richard Moll has a four minute cameo and Kanefsky shamelessly plugs his earlier film, There's Nothing Out There, on one of the lead's shirt. I thought that since this was a Horrorfest film, that the production values might look better than Kanefsky's other flicks. Nope, this one is just as cheap as his other efforts.