Nightmares Come at Night

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Nightmares Come at Night is another dream like erotic horror from the director of Vampyros Lesbos (and some 150 other films), Jess Franco. Anne is a striptease artist working in a lower class establishment just making ends meet. At the establishments request she makes her dances last as long as possible so the patrons drink more. As she dances she notices a beautiful woman staring intently at here. She learns this woman’s name is Cincia and that she is a well-respected erotic dancer.

Cincia begins to attend each night and the seduction begins. When Anne moves into Cincia’s large mansion her every move is manipulated and controlled. It seems Cincia wants to dominate her body and soul.

As their relationship becomes more complicated, she is plagued with violent nightmares in which she commits cold blooded murders. The local psychiatrist, a committed catholic who seems to look on their relationship with some disapproval, seems to see these dreams as symptomatic of their destructive relationship. But is there more at play? Could these nightmares be real ? Is she a murderess or is she simply jealous of Cincia’s provocative and reckless behaviour.

At the same time it seems that a sinister couple are lurking in an abandoned house next door and there is talk of a jewel heist, what is in store for Cincia and Anne?

Filled with nudity, steamy sexy senses and a truly psychedelic jazz score by Bruno Nicolai, this is one of the least known of Franco’s films. The acting is reasonable, indeed is a little better than usually found in a Franco production and the plot is seductive even if the jewel heist sub plot takes away from the effectiveness of the main storyline. Nightmares is not one of Franco’s major films but is it is strangely seductive and certainly worth seeing.

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