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Nightmare Asylum
USA 1992
produced by Todd Sheets, David DeCoteau (executive) for Trustinus Productions
directed by Todd Sheets
starring Lori Hassel, Matthew Lewis, J.T. Taube, Mike Hellman, Jenny Admire, Charles Gooseman, Jerry Angell, Deric Bernier, Edgar Lovecraft, Veronica Orr, Charles Monroe, Charlie Angell
written by Todd Sheets (as Roger Williams (II)), music by Enochian Key, Todd Sheets, gore effects by Dana Cheney, special makeup effects by Mike Hellman
review by Mike Haberfelner
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For some reason, Lisa (Lori Hassel) finds herself in a weird
underground maze, where she's on the run from weird killers and cannibals.
But she bumps into Spider (Matthew Lewis), who promises to take care of
her and takes her to his family - who are all weird and cannibalistic.
Still, Lisa wins their hearts when she tells them about a life outside the
labyrinth, and she and Spider soon fall in love - but after she is
abducted by some cannibals and is only just saved by Spider, she has lost
her memory of an outside world. And soon enough, she and Spider are
seperated again and have to fight more weird killers and cannibals on
their own. Eventually, Lisa hooks up with another comparatively sane
couple, David (Mike Hellman) and Melissa (Jenny Admire), but Melissa is
eventually turned into a zombie, and David is torn apart by some
cannibals. Ultimately, both Lisa and Spider are thrown into a room
chock-full of zombies, where they are torn to pieces and devoured alive,
when ...
Lisa wakes up from a nightmare. She is at home. Someone is knocking at
the door. She opens and - it's the killer from her nightmare coming to get
her, when ...
Lisa wakes up from a nightmare. She's back underground and with Spider,
and it's back before they've seperated for the first time. But all of a
sudden, Lisa is dragged off by cannibals.
Ultra-low budget production that tries to come across as a gore comedy,
but despite some Z-movie charm, the film falls several feet short of its
promise: Director Todd Sheets obviously has little idea about comic
timing, so scenes that could have been funny if they were short and to the
point are endlessly played out until they become annoying, and bad sound
doesn't help either, neither do amateur actors who think to clumsily ham
it up to the hilt is enough to make a scene funny. On the plus side, at
least the gore scenes are well enough handled given the low budget, and
the dream-within-a-dream ending shows at least promise, but that's
unfortunately not enough to save the film.
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