Nightwish (1989)

Director:

Bruce R. Cook

Writer:

Bruce R. Cook (writer)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

In your dreams no one can hear you Scream.

Plot:

A professor and four graduate students journey to a crumbling mansion to investigate paranormal activity and must battle ghosts, aliens and satanic entities.

Plot Keywords:

Professor | Graduate Student | Alien | Ghost | California

Cast

Jack Starrett	...	Professor
Artur Cybulski	...	Bill
Tom Dugan	...	Wendall
Brian Thompson	...	Dean
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Alisha Das	...	Kim
Elizabeth Kaitan	...	Donna
Clayton Rohner	...	Jack
Robert Tessier	...	Stanley
Gayle Vance

Runtime:

96 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Ultra Stereo

Certification:

Australia:M | UK:18 | USA:R | Germany:BPjM Restricted

Quotes:

Dean: The highway's mine.

Movie Connections:

Edited into Invasion of the Scream Queens (1992)

General praise for an unexpectedly fine movie

A strange and unnerving film, Nightwish moves among horror movie conventions the way The Player moves among genres. Never quite comprehensible, the movie follows its own associative logic while pretending to become, at various times, an alien invasion film, a mad scientist film, a ghost story, a beast-from--beyond-perhaps-it's-Satan-himself movie, and uncountable others. The acting is quirkily good, the writing witty, and the off-balance nature of the scenes allow the film to move between eeriness, gross-out horror, humor and an even odder element of eroticism--the latter supplied mostly by the lovely Alisha Das, whose character at times seems to treat the proceedings like an especially elaborate session of unnatural foreplay.