George, who has been under the care of psychiatrists and who is mad as a box of frogs, makes his way to Florida to his ex-wife and children. Plagued by terrible visions of a traumatic childhood, George begins to kill young women. The closer he gets to Florida, the more murderous he becomes. Apparently, he has run out of his medication and this has turned him into a demented psycho. Finally reaching his destination, he menaces his children, who are on their own after George snuffs out the babysitter. Luckily, the children are savvy enough to hide and George's son shoots him. In a creepy final scene the son reveals he is cut from the same cloth as his father. Nightmares In A Damaged Brain is a grimy, depressing film, its whole aesthetics are bleak and dour. It is also extremely violent and gore-laden. The film marketed itself on the claim that Tom Savini had done the special effects for it, which he angrily denies. Hysteria against Video Nasties was so intense back in the 1980s that the film's distributor ended up with an 18 month prison sentence for refusing to make a one second cut to the film. That is how dangerous this film was considered and why it is a very nasty Nasty. One for hardcore slasher fans only who will probably appreciate its violence, gore, and early 1980s ambience. It is an innately sordid film which is in the vein of the similarly scummy, fellow Video Nasty - The Toolbox Murders.
My first film watched was Carrie aged 2 on my dad's knee. Educated at The University of St Andrews and Trinity College Dublin. Fan of Arthouse, Exploitation, Horror, Euro Trash, Giallo, New French Extremism. Weaned at the bosom of a Russ Meyer starlet. The bleaker, artier or sleazier the better!
