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Director:
Writer:
John McTiernan (writer)
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Release Date:
17 January 1986 (USA) more
Tagline:
A Chilling Tale Of Supernatural Evil. more
Plot:
A French anthropologist moves to Los Angeles and is followed by the evil spirits of an extinct tribe he once uncovered. full summary | full synopsis
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Nomads
 (From Fangoria. 1 December 2008, 10:07 PM, PST)

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A great, eerie horror-fantasy more (27 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Pierce Brosnan ... Jean Charles Pommier

Lesley-Anne Down ... Flax
Anna Maria Monticelli ... Niki (as Anna-Maria Monticelli)
Adam Ant ... Number One
Mary Woronov ... Dancing Mary
Héctor Mercado ... Ponytail
Josie Cotton ... Silver Ring
Frank Doubleday ... Razor
Jeannie Elias ... Cassie

Nina Foch ... Real Estate Agent
J. Jay Saunders ... Cort (as J.J. Saunders)
Alan Autry ... Olds
Dana Chelette ... Orderly
Frances Bay ... Bertril
Junero Jennings ... Gas Station Attendant
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Additional Details

Runtime:
91 min
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Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
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The voice of the professor from Boston over the phone is the director, John McTiernan. more
Soundtrack:
Dancing Mary more

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12 out of 14 people found the following comment useful.
A great, eerie horror-fantasy, 11 January 2004
Author: one4now4 from Ft. Worth, TX, USA

This is a great horror-fantasy. It's very complicated and surreal, but, if you can dig it, it is a good one. I loved it. In it, Pierce Brosnan turns in an excellent performance as a French anthropologist in L.A. with his wife. He's brought into an emergency room after being attacked by unknown assailants, where he dies. But, before he goes, he somehow manages to pass his memories on to a doctor (Lesley-Anne Downe). She begins to slide into hallucinatory states where she sees how and why Brosnan was killed, with the dead anthropologist every step of the way in his flashbacks. For some reason, some streetpunks are very interested in his house and he finds that they have built a shrine to a murder in his garage. He begins to track them and study their behavior and how they live. It's not very long at all before he not only realizes that these people are no human beings, but also becomes the hunted as they begin to terrorize him. Then, the doctor finds that the mysterious, mystical demons known as "nomads" want her next. Some parts are extremely creepy, like the sequence with the nuns. Man, that was eerie. I liked this movie a lot, even if it was as complicated as it is. "Nomads" is, without a doubt, a thinking man's horror film.

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