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Strange Darling
2024 · Horror · Thriller
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122 votes
The Dream You Can't Escape ALIVE!
A drug-treated schizophrenic plagued by horrible nightmares is released from the hospital and goes on a killing spree.
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Nightmare was released in 1981, right in the middle of the slasher boom of the 80’s. Thankfully, it was one of the better slashers to be released during that wave. Nightmare follows a mental patient in New York. He escapes from a mental institution where doctors have been giving him experimental drugs to try to cure, or find the cause of, his psychosis. We follow this patient as he makes his way down the East Coast,…
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**_Psychological study of a psycho-slayer traveling from Manhattan to Cocoa Beach_** A man with obvious mental issues is deemed well by his handers at the asylum and so he's let loose in New York City whereupon he falls back into his murderous ways and naturally travels to Florida in order to see some former family members. “Nightmare” (1981) is serious psychological horror, like "Don't Go in the House" (1979), excep…
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