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| 3 | ''Nightmare'' (also called ''Nightmare in a Damaged Brain'') is a SlasherMovie released in 1981. It is about a guy who gets horrible [[TitleDrop nightmares]] and is getting treatment for it in an asylum. Inexplicably, he is set free and goes on a rampage to meet a family. The story also revolves around the family of a single mother who has two daughters and one naughty little shit called CJ. |
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| 5 | The movie was branded a {{Video Nast|ies}}y because it is ''gory'' and even led to one distributor getting arrested for not cutting one second from the movie. |
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| 7 | The film also had a controversy when Creator/TomSavini (who is credited with the ''spectacular'' gore effects) claims to have nothing to do with the movie and was only on the set as an advisor for a day or two. The director, Romano Scavolini disagrees and says it was Savini who designed the major of the effects. There are pictures of Savini on the set so the truth is still anyone's guess. |
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| 9 | !! The movie has the following tropes: |
| 10 | * AxCrazy: |
| 11 | ** George is off his rocker. He uses a literal axe once too. |
| 12 | ** [[spoiler: Implied with CJ towards the end.]] |
| 13 | * BadassLongcoat: George wears a rather nice one. |
| 14 | * BigRottenApple: New York City is shown as in ''Film/TaxiDriver'', a sleazy, smutty place. |
| 15 | * BloodSplatteredInnocents: Subverted with [[spoiler: George as a kid.]] |
| 16 | * BreakingTheFourthWall: CJ winks at the camera towards the end. |
| 17 | * ChildrenAreInnocent: Subverted for George and CJ. Played straight for CJ's elder sisters. |
| 18 | * ConvulsiveSeizures: George gets these from time to time. |
| 19 | * DreamIntro: The movie starts off with George dreaming of him waking up in a blood soaked bed that has the severed body of the woman he killed as a child. |
| 20 | * DysfunctionalFamily: A good chunk of the film consists of CJ's family yelling and screaming at each other. |
| 21 | * FingerLickinEvil: George has a habit of frantically licking the blood on his fingers after murdering victims. [[spoiler: He did it first after offing his parents.]] |
| 22 | * {{Gorn}}: There are two or three sequences of gore but they are brutal. |
| 23 | * MadeOfIron: [[spoiler:George gets shot almost 15 times before he finally dies.]] |
| 24 | * OffWithHisHead: Young George decapitates the woman his father is having sex with an axe. And it's shown in grisly detail. |
| 25 | * ThePrankster: CJ, to an almost sociopathic level. |
| 26 | * SlashedThroat: George kills an unnamed woman this way. |
| 27 | * SelfMadeOrphan: |
| 28 | ** [[spoiler: George sees his father and mother having kinky sex and hacks them to pieces.]] |
| 29 | ** [[spoiler: CJ later offs his father George too. Though to be fair, CJ wasn't aware George is his father and George was advancing on him with a pick axe.]] |
| 30 | * WouldHurtAChild: George kills one of CJ's classmates in an abandoned house. |
| 31 | * VillainProtagonist: George and arguably, CJ. |
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