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The Nightmare Man (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2.4 )

Running Time:
116 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1981 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Douglas Camfield

Written By:
Robert Holmes
David Wiltshire

Actors:
James Warwick ..... Michael Gaffikin
Celia Imrie ..... Fiona Patterson
Maurice Roëves ..... Insp. Inskip
Tom Watson ..... Dr. Goudry
Jonathan Newth ..... Col. Howard
James Cosmo ..... Sgt. Carch
Fraser Wilson ..... PC Williamson
Tony Sibbald ..... Dr. Symonds
Elaine Wells ..... Mrs. Mackay
Jon Croft ..... McGrath
Ronald Forfar ..... Campbell
Jeff Stewart ..... Drummond
Robert Vowles ..... Lt. Carey
Pat Gorman ..... The Killer

Synopsis:

It really does feel like a Doctor Who story, this being helped by having one of the Doctor's best directors and writers on board. The lurking monster, isolated community, strange killings and impending doom are all textbook Doctor Who. The Nightmare Man is more adult than Doctor Who. Not just because there's a mention of cannabis, a hint of blood and the sight of the ever-glorious Celia Imrie in a low-cut dress. There's a real claustrophobia to it. The fog rolls in, and the gloomy little island really is cut off. Actually, when the fog lifts (very abruptly, at the start of part four), the island doesn't look nearly as barren and miserable as we've been lead to believe. It's all very well constructed: lots of brief mentions of bogs, cliffs, isolated crofts. We feel like we are at the end of the world, and there's a genuine mystery about what might be impinging upon it. Celia Imrie is, of course, magnificent. One of the strengths of the production is that her character is essential to the story. She's a cartographer, and raised on the island, so her knowledge of the area is vital to the investigation. She is not sidelined as could so easily have happened. Maurice Roeves and Jonathan Newth as The Inspector and The Colonel are perfectly decent, and James Cosmo utterly believable and likable as the occasionally Gaelic-speaking Sergeant. Occasional glimpses of the monster are very carefully done, although the gasping growl and red point-of-view are a bit over the top. The viewer is never really sure what the killer may be, and there's a wonderfully claustrophobic, foggy, damp sense of doom throughout. And Celia Imrie.

A heavy fog cuts the small isolated Scottish island off from the mainland, and dentist Michael Gaffikin has just discovered a dismembered corpse on the golf links. Michael and his artist girlfriend, Fiona Patterson, assist the local law enforcements in searching for the murderer. However, as the body count rises and the surrounding circumstances turn increasingly bizarre and gruesome, everyone begins to wonder if the killer is a human or an unimaginable creature...

Based on the 'Child Of Vodyanoi' novel by David Wiltshire. This drama centres on the arrival of a woman and the effect on the inhabitants of Inverdee.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 09 August, 2006.

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