Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Monarch Video
• VHS Release Date: January 19, 2002
• Run Time: 91 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 1.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005TPNQ
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #478,636 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Holloween NightThe pirate radio show "American Nightmare" is broadcasting from dusk till dawn. To commemorate the massacre of four college students the year before host Caligari has invited listeners to call in and share their worst fears.

Seven friENDs meet for dinner before beginning the evening's festivities. With "American Nightmare" playing in the café, each one takes a turn calling the show.

But the psychopath behind last year's massacre is also listening.

The friENDs are confessing their fears to a killer.

When the friENDs go their separate ways, a gruesome chase begins, with the killer using the radio show to taunt this year's prey. One by one, the seven friENDs become victims, manipulated by a deranged mind. And one by one the psycho will give them each a fatal chance to confront their deepest fear.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1.0 out of 5 stars I cannot believe that this is on Amazon..., July 11, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: American Nightmare [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I did not see this movie- I 'acted' as an extra in it, and was looking for a copy so that I could purchase it and watch to see if any of my scenes made the final cut. Hahaha!!! You know, after reading the other reviews, I'm buying it anyway just out of morbid curiosity and to see if Lyle's band made the final cut too..... -EK

1.0 out of 5 stars LURID AND SADISTIC, January 3, 2004

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Michael Butts (Berkeley Springs, WV USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: American Nightmare [VHS] (VHS Tape)

AMERICAN NIGHTMARE is one of those movies you wonder how it ever got made. Despite an interesting premise, the film basically exists to show a sadistic killer nurse castrate and murder a local hunk; torture and kill the heroine's sister; and even have the heroine shoot her sister assuming it is the vile killer. Yuk. And the radio program itself guickly degenerates into a foul-mouthed, lewd, ridiculously scripted farce. The movie never explains why the killer nurse is on the rampage; why she hasn't been caught; and then the big finale where we're supposed to go "Oooh...I never suspected that" makes no sense because no back-up is provided for this stupid ending.
Debbie Roshon, the "star" of this movie, plays the role so convincingly, it makes me wonder if she was acting at all.
AVOID AT ALL COSTS.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars forehead, June 11, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: American Nightmare [VHS] (VHS Tape)

you have got to be joking never watch this it was stupid when filmed and stupid to watch. it does not take 57 takes to run down stairs.